"DaleW" > wrote in message
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> I'd like to take a moment to wish all of you here a Happy Holiday
> season no matter what you celebrate. I've met a lot of good people
> here (both online and eventually offline), and at its best this
> community is just that- a community. So for the holidays and 2009 I
> wish all the members of this community health, happiness, success, and
> prosperity!

Best regards of the season to all at AFW. We'll be lunching Christmas Day on
a nearby surf beach with a bottle of bubbly.

Don't know who wrote this but...

Please accept with no obligation, implied or implicit, my best wishes for an
environmentally conscious, socially responsible, low stress non-addictive,
gender neutral celebration of the summer (or winter, as the case may be)
solstice holiday, practiced within the most enjoyable traditions of the
religious persuasion of your choice, or the secular practices of your
choice, with respect for the religious or secular persuasions and/or
traditions of others, or their choice not to practice religious or secular
traditions at all. May you have a fiscally successful, personally fulfilling
and medically uncomplicated recognition of the onset of the generally
accepted calendar year 2009, but not without due respect for the calendars
of choice of other cultures whose contributions to society have helped to
make Australia great (not to imply that Australia is necessarily greater
than any other country) and without regard to the race, creed, colour, age,
physical ability, religious faith, political belief, choice of computer
platform or sexual preferences of the wishee. By accepting this greeting you
are accepting these terms. This greeting is subject to clarification or
withdrawal. It is freely transferable with no alteration to the original
greeting. It implies no promise by the wisher to actually implement any of
the wishes for herself or himself or others, is void where prohibited by law
and is revocable at the sole discretion of the wisher. This wish is
warranted to perform as expected within the usual application of good
tidings for a period of one year, or until the issuance of a subsequent
holiday greeting, whichever comes first, and the warranty is limited to
replacement of this wish or issuance of a new wish at the sole discretion of
the wisher.

Cheers!
Martin