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Wed Nov-26-08 02:00 PM
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"To start the War on Christmas" BWAAHHAAHAHAHA :evilgrin: :silly: :nuke: :evilgrin: :silly: :nuke: :evilgrin: :silly: :nuke: :evilgrin: :silly: :nuke:
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Wed Nov-26-08 02:01 PM
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Wed Nov-26-08 02:04 PM
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2. Tomorrow begins my 6 week hibernation period. n/t |
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Wed Nov-26-08 02:05 PM
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3. Why do you hate America? |
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Don't you know that 70% of the economy is service based? All the poor unskilled workers who used to have decent jobs at a factory - when we had those - now work for peanuts at the mall?
Actually, it is the credit cards company that hate America, raising interest rates to really keep shopper to - gasp - live within their means.
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Wed Nov-26-08 02:10 PM
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Wed Nov-26-08 02:09 PM
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4. I have a confession to make . . . |
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. . . I hate the Christmas holiday season and wouldn't mind in the least seeing it relegated to the trash bin of holiday celebrations.
There, I said it.
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Wed Nov-26-08 02:14 PM
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6. But leave all the lights |
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After all, this is how Christmas and Hanukkah started. Trying to put some lights during the winter solstice.
A few years ago we were ambitious and would take a walk after work which, by then, was pitch dark around this time of the year. We live in a suburb where there are street lights only at the intersections. So all the houses that were full of lights made it easier to, at least, spot a herd of deers.
No, we do not put lights on ours, though, but if people want it, hey, we enjoyed their generosity.
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Wed Nov-26-08 02:36 PM
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It's not the tree, xmas dinner and lights that I hate, it's going into every friggin store in town and hearing xmas music being blasted into my poor sensitive brain. That and the commercials, marketing and general commercialization of the holiday. I agree about the lights. It's beautiful. If we could just get the beauty back into it I'd be a happy camper.
There was an amazing spec-fiction book I read years ago, the title of which I can't remember, that had several modern day people going back to medieval times and the description of what Christmas was in a small village in Europe then was just beautiful. Bringing light to the darkest days of the year. Community gathering. Warmth in the midst of freezing cold.
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Wed Nov-26-08 02:15 PM
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7. Not to mention the Mork and Mindy Marathon on The Sci-Fi Channel! |
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Wed Nov-26-08 03:02 PM
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10. Oh my. He looks so young |
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I'd better not pass by any mirror..
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Wed Nov-26-08 02:20 PM
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8. it is going to be a very lean holiday for alot of people |
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people just do not have the money.
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Wed Nov-26-08 03:04 PM
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11. Thought you were looking forward to leftovers. n/t |
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