Iirc Christmas was originally a festival celebrating surviving another year , and having a stable harvest . Kind of morbidly amusing how history has rhymed . <| sep |> Blood comes out of boat carpeting . Good to know when I go to dump my next body ! s <| sep |> Well , I was not using the past tense in my comments . <| sep |> It ' s hitting the jump button to take off but because its wings are clipped , flying is disabled so he can only jump . <| sep |> Part of the reason is the Associated Beer Distributors of Illinois . Beer in Illinois must be distributed through an approved distributor . That keeps the distribution costs artificially high . I think that the cost of living has a bigger effect though . I ' ve usually been able to get beer at good prices in central Illinois though the selection isn ' t as good as Milwaukee .