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O BONZA TREE

We don’t celebrate Kwanzaa in Australia. Instead, we revel in Bonza, a day of traditional Australian cultural pursuits: songs, film, poetry, filling in applications for arts grants, and so on. Imre Salusinszky began this year’s Bonza a week early:

When I was a lass in Sassafrass,
There was nuthin’ we couldn’t handle,
With Uncle Fred’s shovel, or Uncle Bill’s pick,
Or Aunt Ethel’s “special” candle.
Fred’s shovel dug our mighty well,
Bill’s pick, it broke the stones some,
And as for Ethel’s candle, well,
In ‘Frass it could get lonesome ...

Merry Bonza, everybody! And, for anybody not beholden to Australian traditions, please enjoy that Christmas thing that happens in some countries.

(Okay, Bonza aside, very best Christmas wishes to all readers, commenters, linkers, fellow bloggers, supporters, opponents, trolls, oafs, and infants, and all of your families. Have a great day—Tim)

Posted by Tim B. on 12/24/2005 at 01:17 PM

  1. Merry Christmas, Tim.  Lights out at 10; candles out at 11.

    Posted by Mystery Meat on 2005 12 24 at 02:38 PM • permalink

  2. And the same to you Tim. Thanks for all your support this past year.

    Posted by Mr. Bingley on 2005 12 24 at 02:47 PM • permalink

  3. Merry Christmas Tim.  And Andrea.  And all the lovable cast of zanies.

    And Happy New Year to the trolls.

    Posted by JayC on 2005 12 24 at 03:07 PM • permalink

  4. Merry Christmas Tim, Andrea et al.

    Enjoy the traditional Christmas Galah

    Posted by Jack from Montreal on 2005 12 24 at 03:17 PM • permalink

  5. This Bonza sounds fairly multiculti… I’m sure I’ve seen it practiced in trailer parks across the US… amd a cheerful Chanukkah to you, too, sir.

    Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 12 24 at 03:53 PM • permalink

  6. Merry Christmas, Tim and Andrea, and many, many thanks for giving us a place to hang out.

    Posted by Oafish and Infantile on 2005 12 24 at 04:19 PM • permalink

  7. Merry Christmas to one and all

    Posted by Wand on 2005 12 24 at 04:25 PM • permalink

  8. Have a joyful Christmas ya’ll.
    May God continue to bless and preserve you every one.

    ...And a [double-stacked] blessed shout-out for the entire collective of coal-fired Gaian hippie jihadists who have spread such joy and mirth since Dubya day ‘04.

    Posted by monkeyfan on 2005 12 24 at 04:48 PM • permalink

  9. Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, Happy Chanuka/Hanukkah, Jivin’ Kwanzaa, and Beauty Bonza to you all.  I’m off to South Carolina to drink Southern drink, dance the shag, and roam the beaches.  See you on the flip side.

    Posted by RebeccaH on 2005 12 24 at 04:50 PM • permalink

  10. Have a safe trip RebeccaH!

    Posted by Mr. Bingley on 2005 12 24 at 04:59 PM • permalink

  11. Happy Yule and Merry Christmas to you all.  And a special bit of holiday cheer to the henchlings and minions.

    Posted by Achillea on 2005 12 24 at 05:25 PM • permalink

  12. Merry Cristmas and Happy New Years from a faithful lurker.

    May all you stockings be stuffed with embolding tags.

    Posted by ambisinsitral on 2005 12 24 at 06:43 PM • permalink

  13. Merry Christmas to Tim and Andrea and all the gang!

    Posted by Patricia on 2005 12 24 at 06:55 PM • permalink

  14. Merry Christmas! and a great ‘06

    somewhat OT: This has got to be pre-emptive daughter killing…

    Posted by 3lit3 on 2005 12 24 at 07:01 PM • permalink

  15. Pax vobiscum to one and all. And RebeccaH, I’ll join you in a toast: Long life and prosperity to the whole menagerie of right-wing death beasts, and confusion to the enemy!

    Posted by paco on 2005 12 24 at 07:44 PM • permalink

  16. Fair dinkum Aussie Christmas wishes to the whole Anglosphere, and the rest of the world too!

    Posted by Local oaf on 2005 12 24 at 08:08 PM • permalink

  17. Merry Christmas Tim, Andrea and all – especially you RWDBs. thanks for all the laughs. (Santa brought me a chainsaw and a fully automatic hunting rifle with grenade launcher. I’m brimming with peace and goodwill – hey, I feel so good I’m gonna cut down a tree and shoot some furry critter).

    Posted by hooligan on 2005 12 24 at 08:23 PM • permalink

  18. #17: I’m glad to see that some people, anyway, understand the true meaning of Christmas. Lock and load, Hooligan!

    Posted by paco on 2005 12 24 at 08:25 PM • permalink

  19. Merry Christmas one and all! (hic) Rosemount Shiraz is a highly recommended addition to any holiday celbra—celoebr—celabor—party! (hic)

    Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2005 12 24 at 08:39 PM • permalink

  20. Merry Christmas to Tim, Andrea, and everyone who frequents this site.  I truly enjoy reading your comments.  You all make me laugh, which is the best present I can think of.

    Posted by Polly on 2005 12 24 at 09:43 PM • permalink

  21. To the tune of O Christmas Tree:

    O Christmas Time, O Christmas Time,
    I swear I won’t get pissed this time!
    I’ll drink the water, not the red,
    Think of my liver and my head.
    But all’s not lost; I’ll always be
    An animal on New Year’s Eve.

    GOD BLESS US, EVERYBODY!

    Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2005 12 24 at 09:51 PM • permalink

  22. Happy Celebratory Day of your choice to Tim, Andrea, and all my other comrades in The Great Neocon Conspiracy.

    Posted by Michael Lonie on 2005 12 24 at 10:18 PM • permalink

  23. Merry Christmas and happy Bonza. The Bonza Babes link at Tim’s linked old entry is no longer active, Yahoo search finds nothing, Google cache turns up just the default Yahoo page where the site was, and the Wayback Machine teases with a bunch of seeming links that go nowhere. Image searches for “Bonza babes” turn up nothing—and, for “Bonza,” turn up images of many things, especially dogs, very sound-looking hounds, of many breeds. What is “Bottling Bonza”? I’ve heard of the joke name “Giuseppe Bottlabonza.” This “Bonza” seems to have a mysterious and wide-ranging significance. What the heck is it?

    What can I say, Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!

    Posted by ForNow on 2005 12 24 at 10:50 PM • permalink

  24. May your traditional Holiday, bring you good health, happiness and well being. As for me, Merry Christmas to all.

    Posted by El Cid on 2005 12 24 at 11:27 PM • permalink

  25. Merry Christmas to Tim and everyone here from Jakarta, 11am here time to get stuck into the Buck’s Fizz I think, have a happy hara’am Christmas, oh for a big greasy bacon butty ah alas not to be!

    Posted by Harry Flashman on 2005 12 24 at 11:54 PM • permalink

  26. Merry Christmas to the usual gang of idiots.

    And to everyone else, too!

    Posted by rinardman on 2005 12 25 at 12:01 AM • permalink

  27. Merry Christmas all.

    My Christmas gift from my in-laws is a book entitled “A New Pengiun Leunig”. Yech.

    Posted by lingus4 on 2005 12 25 at 02:01 AM • permalink

  28. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, Tim (and Andrea!).

    Thanks for letting us trample all over your house(blog) and helping ourselves to the bold tags!

    :^D

    Posted by Spiny Norman on 2005 12 25 at 02:10 AM • permalink

  29. Merry Christmas & Best Wishes for 2006!

    And a hearty “What General Patton Always Said” for Andrea and Tim….

    - tanks

    Posted by Adriane on 2005 12 25 at 06:30 AM • permalink

  30. All three seem like bush poetry to me.

    Posted by rhhardin on 2005 12 25 at 07:38 AM • permalink

  31. We had a gathering of the extended ‘dirty herd’, the casks were broached, the beasts turned on their embers, and jollity and uproar was the order of the day.

    Merry Christmas and a safe and happy ‘06 to one and all.

    Posted by Olrence on 2005 12 25 at 07:53 AM • permalink

  32. Merry Christmas to you all. Drive carefully if you are driving, pace your livers, and look out for yourselves.

    MarkL
    Canberra

    Posted by MarkL on 2005 12 25 at 07:54 AM • permalink

  33. 19# Depends which Rosemount Shiraz Andrea.

    For a celebration such a Christmas, the flavour-free Diamond Label, or equally bland Split-Label are to be avoided.  Get some Balmoral Syrah!

    Posted by Steve at the pub on 2005 12 25 at 09:32 AM • permalink

  34. Well I was at the grocery store. I had to get what I could get. The bottle I got tastes pretty good to me. Tasted. It’s morning now and I’m on coffee.

    Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2005 12 25 at 10:18 AM • permalink

  35. Merry Christmas and a Happy Hangover New Year to all people of good will around the world!  (To hell with the rest.)

    And a Happy Hannukah, too!

    Peace through Superior Firepower

    Barbara Skolaut
    Richmond, Virginia USA

    Posted by Barbara Skolaut on 2005 12 25 at 10:18 AM • permalink

  36. Merry Xmas and Happy Boxing Day!  It’s Walking Through a Rainy WOnderland here..

    Posted by ushie on 2005 12 25 at 12:18 PM • permalink

  37. For those of you last-minute types still looking for the perfect holiday gift, check out the Trunk Monkey.

    Posted by Achillea on 2005 12 25 at 12:47 PM • permalink

  38. The Trunk Monkey™ sure beats OnStar™!

    Posted by rinardman on 2005 12 25 at 02:33 PM • permalink

  39. Hash a Happy Crishmas aand don’t do ash I do, what ever it was. wausshie[hc]

    Posted by waussie on 2005 12 26 at 12:45 AM • permalink

  40. Merry Christmas, all!

    Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2005 12 26 at 03:12 AM • permalink

  41. bonzer?

    Posted by crash on 2005 12 29 at 10:10 AM • permalink

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