| sneakgun | 19 Dec 2016 9:05 a.m. PST |
How many of you are haunted by the three ghosts? Past, Present or future? Anyone cruel to their clerks? Snub their nephew or family? Say "Bah Humbug?"
My dice do snicker at midnight…..
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| John the Greater | 19 Dec 2016 9:28 a.m. PST |
"Every idiot who goes about with 'Merry Christmas' on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart." Did Dickens know how hard it is to force a stake of holly into someone's chest cavity? Trust me on this, it requires way more effort than you would think… |
| Wackmole9 | 19 Dec 2016 9:30 a.m. PST |
Ghost of Gaming past
"Reliving all those almost victories"
Ghost of Gaming present
"All the great sales I missed" Ghost of Gaming future
"To see all your future projects and know you won't finishing them" |
| Stryderg | 19 Dec 2016 9:38 a.m. PST |
@ John the Greater – I'm a little concerned that you would know that. |
Extrabio1947  | 19 Dec 2016 10:35 a.m. PST |
Im good with the ghosts; we have an understanding. Marley, on the other hand, can be a real pain in the tuchus, always rattling around the lead mountain he forged casting by casting while alive. |
| Choctaw | 19 Dec 2016 11:43 a.m. PST |
On Christmas Eve, 1995, my partner and I were on patrol in South Dallas. We observed two individuals crawling out of a business's side window with property which didn't actually belong to them. One of the burglars ran down the street, one down the alley. I jumped out of the car and pursued the one down the alley. After several hundred yards he wheeled around and reached into his coat pocket. I drew and told him to let me see his hands. He just stared at me and didn't move. This went on for about thirty seconds until he finally obeyed my commands. He showed me his hands, turned around slowly and got on the ground. I was one second away from shooting him. It turned out he didn't have a weapon. I still have no idea what he was thinking but I was very glad I didn't pull the trigger. Four years later another partner of mine was murdered on Christmas Eve, while on duty, by escaped convicts from the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. He died a very hard death. These are my Christmas ghosts. |
| War Panda | 19 Dec 2016 12:24 p.m. PST |
@Choctaw Hopefully your life has enough "milk of human kindness" that these Ghosts might eventually find peace. Your job places you in positions that threaten your life and I know you're not asking for thanks or praise with your post but I want to say that you and those like you deserve an abundance of both. Praying you have a peaceful, joyful and safe Christmas |
| Sir Walter Rlyeh | 19 Dec 2016 12:59 p.m. PST |
I am occasionally haunted by the Ghost of Crap-I-forgot-the-batteries and more often by the Ghost of Alcohol Past. |
| sneakgun | 19 Dec 2016 1:44 p.m. PST |
Sorry Choctaw, the post was meant in fun. |
| 138SquadronRAF | 19 Dec 2016 2:32 p.m. PST |
I'm English, Christmas Eve is the correct time to tell ghost stories. I brush off my copy of M. R James and read something appropriate. |
| Hafen von Schlockenberg | 19 Dec 2016 3:16 p.m. PST |
Don't forget Canada's Robertson Davies,one of my favorite authors--he did Christmas ghost stories too: link |
| zoneofcontrol | 19 Dec 2016 8:19 p.m. PST |
I am a Christian (Catholic) so I am pleasantly haunted by The Holy Ghost on Christmas Eve. |
 miniMo | 19 Dec 2016 9:11 p.m. PST |
Latin scholar, I'm haunted by the Ghost of the Future Perfect Periphrastic Workaround Solution.
And ethnically, a British Islander, so I like the ghost story tradition! |
| jowady | 20 Dec 2016 11:24 a.m. PST |
I'm haunted by the pleasant memories of Christmases past, especially sitting in the den at home with a roaring fire, my Dad with a brandy in hand, cookies and candies nearby, our beagle at his feet, telling me stories of growing up in NYC and WW2. |
