On this, the Winter Solstice, I bring you a seasonal DU tradition: THE DOOR BUZZARD THREAD!!!

[Scrivener7]

Happy Holidays, pinboy3niner, wherever you may be!

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10027423760

Could my neighbors be in federal trouble?
My wife and I dealing with the two down stairs from our condo. Right inside the security door which is used for all 4 apatments there is a mat reading Merry Christmas. My Wife would have been fine with Season Greetings or Happy Holidays. My wife has left letters explaining her objections. But those have been rip down and the mat remains.


Today my wife received a package from amazon of stuff she ordered ON the package was written Merry Christmas and Christmas underline. We found the package on the steps to the condo. In order for the mailman to get in the buzzard needs rung or you need a key.


If one of these neighbors wrote this on my wife's package did they deface postal property? Can they be in trouble?

[Ocelot II]

1. That thread was sheer genius. Thanks for the memory!

[Scrivener7]

2. It still makes me laugh out loud.

[TigressDem]

3. Kind of like, PEACE unEarthed?

If we dig up Ivana and find the rest of the top secret documents, tRUMP will go to prison and we will have done the World a service:

PEACE unEarthed.

[ms liberty]

4. Thank you! I loved this thread then and I love it still. n/t

[duhneece]

5. One of our finest.

Thank you

[stage left]

6. I was here

mostly lurking as I do now, when this thread first appeared. It was, and is, hilarious.

[cilla4progress]

7. This was fabulous -

Thanks so much!

[pandr32]

8. First time seeing this thread.

[YoshidaYui]

9. I have been here awhile, did I miss it?

I don't remember any of this, maybe it was before my time..

[wryter2000]

10. I knew I loved solstice for a reason

I'm not cooking a buzzard for dinner, though.

[Scrivener7]

17. I live in an apartment with a buzzer that goes to my phone. Guess

what it comes up on the screen as?

YES!!!

[wryter2000]

18. Really?

[vlyons]

11. Crappy uncouth neighbors, who want to make others wrong ---

so they can make themselves feel right. It's really too bad, because every culture and religion has its own traditions and celebrations which are meaningful for them and provide a way to celebrate the joys of life.

I'm a Buddhist, and Christmas, Hannakah, Kwansa, Diwali, etc are not a problem for me.

But just for the record, Jesus was not born on Dec 25th, assuming he was even a real historical person. Christmas was invented by the Catholic Church to compete with the various pagan celebrations of winter soltice. The old Roman pagan religion celebrated Saturnalia, and wow did they know how to party!

We know from 2 statements in the New Testament that Jesus could not have been born in winter.
1) Caesar sent out an edict for all in Judea to register in their birth city. Probably to collect taxes and for conscription. Many would have had to travel for days to arrive at their birth city, not something to be undertaken in winter.
2) Shepards were in the fields watching their flocks by night. But not in winter. There's no pasture grass in winter. Flocks would have been moved to shelters or caves and fed hay. Shepards were have been in homes with warm fires.

The Christmas tree and the yule log are part of pagan soltice celebrations. And mistletoe was sacred to the Druids. But if you want to put up a Christmas tree and go to midnight mass on Christmas eve, well Merry Christmas. And if Christmas greetings offend you, then Season's Greetings to you.

[wryter2000]

21. I have always wondered about shepherds in the fields

I wonder why they didn’t use the vernal equinox instead.

[vlyons]

23. Shepards would have been camping out with flocks from Spring thru Autumn

But Christmas was competing with pagan winter solstice celebrations. Easter celebrations were established at the 1st council of Nicea in 325 AD to be the 1st Sunday after the 1st full moon after the 21st of March. Easter was based on when Jewish passover occured. Also Jesus did not resurrect 3 days after death. My calendar counts Friday night, Sat, and Sunday morning as 1 day and 2 nights. Lot of inconsistencies in the Bible.

[wryter2000]

24. Of course

I forgot they’d already used the equinox for Easter.

[NJCher]

12. OK, you set the pace

I NOW DEMAND THE OLIVE GARDEN THREAD!!!

CAN WE PLEASE HAVE IT FOR NEW YEARS????

[Scrivener7]

14. LOL! I'll see if I can find it. I'd love to relive that one too!

[wryter2000]

19. Is there a porta potty thread?

Porta potty seems to be an in joke.

From now on, Solstice is definitely my winter holiday.

[ms liberty]

22. I second NJCher's request, pretty please!

You have no idea how much I need the LOL's right now!

[sarge43]

25. Yes! Also, ...

The cornflake coated fried chicken pro/con shoot out
The Kudzu meme-a-thron
The what not to say while watching The Temptation of Christ
The Dildo Flag
Agent Mike

[BlueMTexpat]

13. Thank you for posting this!

I haven't laughed so much in ages!

I totally missed this jewel the first time around!

[Scrivener7]

15. Oh, I'm so glad you got to see it! Total classic.

[BlueMTexpat]

16. Classic indeed!

[Floyd R. Turbo]

20. 🤣