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Here's wishin' all of you guys a very Merry Christmas and
a Happy New Year!

Of course, these good wishes are also directed at those
of you who do not celebrate Christmas such as: Muslims,
Hindus, atheists, Buddhists, software engineers, Sikhs, Jews,
filthy IIR filter designers, Shinto, Bolsheviks, Democrats,
U.S. senator Mitch McConnell, Neo-Pagans, transsexual lesbians,
Government Employees, Devil worshippers, Scientologists,
Control System engineers, people from the U.S. state of Ohio,
Australians, and Rastafarians.

[-Rick-]

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On 23/12/2019 09:13, Richard (Rick) Lyons wrote:

Here's wishin' all of you guys a very Merry Christmas and
a Happy New Year!

Of course, these good wishes are also directed at those
of you who do not celebrate Christmas such as: Muslims,
Hindus, atheists, Buddhists, software engineers, Sikhs, Jews,
filthy IIR filter designers, Shinto, Bolsheviks, Democrats,
U.S. senator Mitch McConnell, Neo-Pagans, transsexual lesbians,
Government Employees, Devil worshippers, Scientologists,
Control System engineers, people from the U.S. state of Ohio,
Australians, and Rastafarians.

We Areligionists (AKA Atheists by the Religionists) do celebrate
Christmas and the Christian churches are entirely to blame for this
because for centuries, millenia even, our ancestors were subject
to very cruel deaths if we did not conform (and in Brit the
Recusancy Acts were not repealed until 1888) so it is in our
traditions to celebrate at Christmas even when we knew all
religion to be infantile make-believe, a veritable bucket of
cowshit.

Richard Dawkins coined the word, "meme" for mental traditions
that perpetuate through the generations.



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On 2019-12-23, Richard (Rick) Lyons <r.lyons@ieee.org> wrote:

Here's wishin' all of you guys a very Merry Christmas and
a Happy New Year!

Of course, these good wishes are also directed at those
of you who do not celebrate Christmas such as: Muslims,
Hindus, atheists, Buddhists, software engineers, Sikhs, Jews,
filthy IIR filter designers, Shinto, Bolsheviks, Democrats,
U.S. senator Mitch McConnell, Neo-Pagans, transsexual lesbians,
Government Employees, Devil worshippers, Scientologists,
Control System engineers, people from the U.S. state of Ohio,
Australians, and Rastafarians.

[-Rick-]

Hey, we Australians celebrate Christmas, even if singing about snow and white Christmas doesn't make a lot of sense here right now. Many are too busy trying to put out bushfires this year instead of celebrating.

Have a Good One. And don't get caught!

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On 12/23/2019 04:13, Richard (Rick) Lyons wrote:

Here's wishin' all of you guys a very Merry Christmas and
a Happy New Year!

Of course, these good wishes are also directed at those
of you who do not celebrate Christmas such as: Muslims,
Hindus, atheists, Buddhists, software engineers, Sikhs, Jews,
filthy IIR filter designers, Shinto, Bolsheviks, Democrats,
U.S. senator Mitch McConnell, Neo-Pagans, transsexual lesbians,
Government Employees, Devil worshippers, Scientologists,
Control System engineers, people from the U.S. state of Ohio,
Australians, and Rastafarians.

[-Rick-]

Merry Christmas,
And for those who don't celebrate Christmas, enjoy whatever Solstice
holiday you do celebrate.
--
Best wishes,
--Phil
pomartel At Comcast(ignore_this) dot net
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Hi Areligious Republican.
OK. When it comes to religion I'll mark you down as "Undecided."
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On Mon, 23 Dec 2019 01:13:44 -0800 (PST), "Richard (Rick) Lyons" <r.lyons@ieee.org> wrote:

Here's wishin' all of you guys a very Merry Christmas and
a Happy New Year!

Of course, these good wishes are also directed at those
of you who do not celebrate Christmas such as: Muslims,
Hindus, atheists, Buddhists, software engineers, Sikhs, Jews,
filthy IIR filter designers, Shinto, Bolsheviks, Democrats,
U.S. senator Mitch McConnell, Neo-Pagans, transsexual lesbians,
Government Employees, Devil worshippers, Scientologists,
Control System engineers, people from the U.S. state of Ohio,
Australians, and Rastafarians.

[-Rick-]

Warmest seasonal salutations to everyone!

;)


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On Monday, December 23, 2019 at 3:28:55 AM UTC-8, Fred Smith wrote:

Hey, we Australians celebrate Christmas, even if singing about snow and white Christmas doesn't make a lot of sense here right now. Many are too busy trying to put out bushfires this year instead of celebrating.

Have a Good One. And don't get caught!

Hi Fred. I added Australians to my list just to poke fun at my Australian DSP pal Peter Kootsookos (who used to frequent comp.dsp regularly). Good luck fightin' the bushfires. (Your bushfires have been reported on in the television news here in the States recently.)
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On 23/12/2019 18:37, Richard (Rick) Lyons wrote:

Hi Areligious Republican.
OK. When it comes to religion I'll mark you down as "Undecided."

Then you'd be mistaken.

Children are sometimes thought to have imaginary friends but
it is not mentally normal for adults to have them.

Really, with all the advances in knowledge made over the
past 200 years, anybody who still believes in gods is
in my opinion a certifiable loony.

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https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/9627737-the-first-gulp-from-the-glass-of-natural-sciences-will

Have a happy
Mark
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On Monday, December 23, 2019 at 2:03:47 PM UTC-5, Areligious Republican wrote:

On 23/12/2019 18:37, Richard (Rick) Lyons wrote:

Hi Areligious Republican.
OK. When it comes to religion I'll mark you down as "Undecided."

Then you'd be mistaken.

Children are sometimes thought to have imaginary friends but
it is not mentally normal for adults to have them.

Really, with all the advances in knowledge made over the
past 200 years, anybody who still believes in gods is
in my opinion a certifiable loony.

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/9627737-the-first-gulp-from-the-glass-of-natural-sciences-will

Have a happy

Mark


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On Monday, December 23, 2019 at 11:03:47 AM UTC-8, Areligious Republican wrote:

On 23/12/2019 18:37, Richard (Rick) Lyons wrote:

Then you'd be mistaken.
Children are sometimes thought to have imaginary friends but
it is not mentally normal for adults to have them.
Really, with all the advances in knowledge made over the
past 200 years, anybody who still believes in gods is
in my opinion a certifiable loony.

Hi Areligious Republican.
My words "When it comes to religion I'll mark you down as Undecided." were a feeble attempt to add a bit of humor to this thread.
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On Tuesday, December 24, 2019 at 7:00:16 AM UTC-8, mako...@yahoo.com wrote:

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/9627737-the-first-gulp-from-the-glass-of-natural-sciences-will

Have a happy

Mark

Hi Mark. That's a interesting quote that 've never seen before. Thanks.
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As a filthy IIR filter designer, I resent being called an "IIR filter designer". :)

- Greg

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On Tuesday, December 24, 2019 at 9:15:24 AM UTC-8, Greg Berchin wrote:

As a filthy IIR filter designer, I resent being called an "IIR filter designer". :)

- Greg

Hi Greg. Ha ha.
Your comment reminds me of the wisecrack; "Don't tell my Mother I'm an engineer. She thinks I'm a piano player in a bordello."

[-Rick-]

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On Wednesday, December 25, 2019 at 2:29:34 AM UTC-6, Richard (Rick) Lyons wrote:

"Don't tell my Mother I'm an engineer. She thinks I'm a piano player in a bordello."

Ha! Engineering used to be a honorable professions. But the railroads aren't what they used to be. :-)

Glad to see a little bit of activity here on comp.dsp. I don't know where everybody went, but it's been awfully quiet here lately.
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"Richard (Rick) Lyons" <r.lyons@ieee.org> writes:

On Tuesday, December 24, 2019 at 9:15:24 AM UTC-8, Greg Berchin wrote:

As a filthy IIR filter designer, I resent being called an "IIR
filter designer". :)

- Greg

Hi Greg. Ha ha.
Your comment reminds me of the wisecrack; "Don't tell my Mother I'm an engineer. She thinks I'm a piano player in a bordello."

What's wrong with piano players?
--
Randy Yates, DSP/Embedded Firmware Developer
Digital Signal Labs
http://www.digitalsignallabs.com
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On Wed, 25 Dec 2019 13:45:12 -0500, Randy Yates
<yates@digitalsignallabs.com> wrote:

"Richard (Rick) Lyons" <r.lyons@ieee.org> writes:

On Tuesday, December 24, 2019 at 9:15:24 AM UTC-8, Greg Berchin wrote:

As a filthy IIR filter designer, I resent being called an "IIR
filter designer". :)

- Greg

Hi Greg. Ha ha.
Your comment reminds me of the wisecrack; "Don't tell my Mother I'm an
engineer. She thinks I'm a piano player in a bordello."

What's wrong with piano players?
--

That's an awfully long list.



- also a piano player. ;)

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Richard (Rick) Lyons <r.lyons@ieee.org> wrote:

Hi Greg. Ha ha.
Your comment reminds me of the wisecrack; "Don't tell my Mother I'm an >engineer. She thinks I'm a piano player in a bordello."

Excellent.

Happy Christmas all, and/or winter greetings, or the equatorial/southern Hemispher equivalents.

Steve

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