Merry Christmas to all!!

For me, this one is a very nice Christmas because yesterday I have taken the driving licence with the Peugeot 207 1.4 HDi of the driving school!!!

I'm so happy!

I also wish you all "frohe Weihnachten und ein glückliches neues Jahr"!



And for all of you who abominate X-Mas as much as I do, I just wish you a good and peaceful time!

By the way: I just completed my 1st year of "IMCDb membership" today and I'm looking forward to the next one.

Complimenti Neon! Immagino avrai gia' comprato l'auto nuova...

Eh no, magari! Mia mamma ha detto che mi potrò comprare un'auto quando avrò un mio lavoro e i miei soldi. uff!

Eh ci vuole pazienza... Intanto puoi fare pratica con la tua Scenic. E poi se avevi ancora l' Audi 80 Avant...
P.S. Dicevo che ti eri comprato la Volvo C30 per iniziare, dal momento che hai cambiato da poco il tuo avatar...

While you're there, did you receive my e-mail sent yesterday? (sent to the address that you entered in your profile on imcdb site)
As I did not get a reply...

Respectable but I'll never understand that by the way very nice Cadillac xmas card.



Why do they all same the same?
and by the way Neon, weren't you going to inherit your grandmother's Fiat Tipo?

No, I obviously didn´t get it... Or was it you who kindly offered V!agra and some other medication at a very special price yesterday? If so, I must have mistakenly deleted this mail...

Could you send it once again or maybe have another try via private message? Thanx in advance.



And I'm not willing to explain that.

i guess he refers to the one asking you to become an admin you could just say yes or not here

Yes probably now I'll use the Tipo, but it cannot go to the center of the city because it hasn't the catalytic stock-pot, so I can drive it only in periphery

That car need a GPL system

Same here as of two weeks ago. 378 days of IMCBd so far for me

Happy holidays everyone, I sincerely wish you all have a safe and comfortable celebration.

Today we got our christmas-tree, self cutted down in the forest nearby. The owner (the state) had opened one christmas-tree-plantation for that.

It was quite full with people, nearly like a family-party. Also two trailers were there, where you could buy Bratwurst and Glühwein (a kind of glogg).
I must admit, that over here, on the Westphalian countryside, it's an absolute must, that at any kind of public events, there are trailers with Bratwurst and beer (Glühwein in the Christmas-time).


When our family got the needed two trees, I had presented a little dirt-track-show.
The cars were standing on a wet, quite muddy field. The most of them were stuck and had to be towed out by the tractor. The responsible forest ranger had just brought one with him (a Case from the 70ies, quite rare).
We came with my Omega and the luggage-trailer of my father-in-law. I could start on the grass, but then I stucked also. But I could go on without any help. I used the old trick: swinging out, made by using the rear and first -better second- gear, changing within a few seconds. During that, the trailer was smashed with kilogrammes of mud, a result of the back-wheel drive.
When the car was rolling again, I used the second gear, quite a lot of gas and was leaving the field - more slippering than driving.
My wife and her family have told me later, that the people around (some dozens were looking at the car-park and several, mainly the kids, have made bets, which car can leave the ground and which one need the tractor), were really yelling "Oh, look, how the Omega with the trailer is coming! Look, how he's slippering! Watch the mud-spouts!" and so on.

When I arrived the paved ground, I really got some applause.

Unfortunately noone had filmed it, I only made some photos at home from the mud-splashes on the trailer.

Unfortunately I'm still too stupid to mount them here. I don't no why, but I cannot fix them.

I even have some interesting pic of an onknown threewheeler for the "car identifying"-thread...

Every year i wonder where appart from Spain the "Three Wise Men" day is celebrated, in Spain as some of you may know (and if you don't i explain you now ) we "officially" celebrate on January the sixth the "Three Wise Men" day, we don't have Santa Claus/Father Christmas even if some people do celebrate it nowadays because they've coppied it from other countries, but well in my case for example i don't, in my family only the "Three Wise Men" day is celebrated, so i was wondering if some of you knew about this day and where exactly it is celebrated, i know that in countries like México and other latin american ones it is done as well.

I searched for it on wikipedia and it said that in some parts of Germany like Baviera, Baden-Württemberg and Sajonia-Anhalt this day is celebrated as well, is it true? Ingo is there anything you can tell me about it?

In Belgium when I was kid there was no "Santa Claus" either, even if we were celebrating Christmas.
Instead there was "Saint Nicolas" (Sinterklaas in Netherlands) on 5/6th December.
(Who is the basis of Santa Claus actually)
It was nice: we were getting presents from Saint Nicolas in early December, and from parents/family in late December; but unfortunate French kids only had presents in late December from Père Noël (Santa Claus)

But now there are both, due to TV etc., mostly because of French & US culture, and I guess that Saint Nicolas will disappear some day, as keeping both is probably weird.

Yes as i said the same goes for Spain, when my mum was younger, or perhaps we don't even have to go that far in the past but when i was younger nobody used to have Father Christmas/Santa Claus or whatever you want to call him, we just had Three Wise men, but as Antoine says due to TV and from the US etc traditions are stupidly copied, sometimes with the excuse of " oh we give them presents the 25th so they can play for longer during the holiday " stupid, as if presents were only for the holiday time... i don't like how some foreign traditions are being copied in my contry, just like some people gets dressed on Haloween, when it's been never celebrated here at all...

I won't be very original.
MERRY CHRISTMAS! Best wishes for all IMCDb members and their families!

@CCF: the "Three Wise Men" (in German "Heilige Drei Könige" = "Holy Three Kings")-celebration on the 6th January, is orign Catholic. In Germany the Catholic people are celebrating it.

I'm not a member of a church, so it's nothing, which I know closer, but at this day it's unusual over here, that children got presents. Here it's usual, that the kids are going around to the houses, disguised as the Three Holy Men and are collecting donations for the Catholic humanity-organizations, mainly for their work in the Third World. After you gave some money to them, they are writing with crayon the blessing "C+M+B" and the year besides your door. This crayon-letters weren't washed away, this brings bad luck.

We still have the "C+M+B 08"-blessing at our house, too. The previous owner was Catholic. I think, next 6th Jan, we'll give some money to the "Three Holy Men", too. We're not in a Church, but it's for a good reason.

P.S. Just today I've said to my colleagues (in the claim-department of an insurance), that it would be senseful to demand higher insurance-fees for Catholic customers - because it's also a ritual on the "Three Holy Kings"-day to light again the candles on the christmas-tree. After 2-3 three weeks in the house, the christmas-tree is so extremely dry, that a little spark is enough to inflame it explosion-like

Indeed, we had several burned down houses, caused by the christmas-candles at the 6th January.

P.S.II: isn't the 6th of January also the "Christmas"-day for the Russian, Greek and Armenian Orthodox-Chrurch?