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Dec 19, 2007 15:04

I read a post by saint_vaelor not long ago about the lack of snow during christmas lately. This got me thinking about many other things that seem to have disappeared over the past ten years or so. With that in mind, I present my "Grinch List 2007", or "What in the Hell Happened to Christmas ( Read more... )

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magikmama December 19 2007, 22:44:11 UTC

If it helps, I expect #4 to dissolve in a few years. It's just a backlash of all the idiots who kept spitting "Merry Christmas" at people they know don't celebrate it ( ... )

You know... 1koolspud December 19 2007, 23:38:56 UTC

You should have gone to Greenfield Village with Fear and I. I know it would have been a day off work and other stuff, but doing that has always put me in the mood for christmas. Lots of people in period dress celebrating the holiday. It's also pleasantly educational. The puritan farm is lit only by a fireplace and a couple of candles, and they tell you that for puritains, it was just another day (Date is not in the Bible, so they didn't celebrate it).

Anyway, maybe try the Brookfield Zoo thing. I worked in retail too many years to magically catch the spirit.

fuzzyscribble December 20 2007, 00:14:31 UTC

10) It's in Canada. Where it belongs ( ... )

drl909 December 20 2007, 02:10:21 UTC

The problem with the phrase "network television" is that we tend to forget that what we're really talking about is "commercial broadcast television"...and breaking up the narrative flow of A Charlie Brown Christmas every so often to run a short film demonstrating that the only way to sufficiently demonstrate your love of your wife is to buy her a mineral formation that people might have died to bring to you...

Well, I think the operative phrase is "subtly subverting the message."

(That's another thing I don't get, that I need explained to me...the whole "expensive mineral formation = love" equation.)

The way I look at it...I bought Charlie Brown and Grinch on DVD. That means I can watch it, and not have to either vomit or change the station when the inevitable "every kiss begins with Kay" advertisement comes on.

and you guys wonder voidness December 20 2007, 06:04:43 UTC

why i gave-up on broadcast tv.....

You make my panties damp saint_vaelor December 20 2007, 17:59:38 UTC

"a short film demonstrating that the only way to sufficiently demonstrate your love of your wife is to buy her a mineral formation that people might have died to bring to you..."

If I were more queer than just slightly, I'd pledge my undying love for you and move you into my house to be mine based on that sentence alone.

*That* is why I love you, man: An unobstructed view of reality that so closely mirrors my own at times.

Re: You make my panties damp drl909 December 20 2007, 18:16:51 UTC

You know, would it just be possible for me to once, in my life, dampen the panties of someone who isn't 1. married, 2. engaged or 3. male?

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drl909 December 20 2007, 15:40:20 UTC

And a couple of things on point 8 ( ... )

I couldn't agree with you more . . . donutato_kun December 20 2007, 17:37:19 UTC

Limiter is out of his fricken' gourd on this one... and I mean "BONG-BONG-COO-coo-COO-coo Skulde13 should be checking the local asylums for good holiday deals" out of his gourd ( ... )

Re: I couldn't agree with you more . . . drl909 December 20 2007, 18:14:17 UTC

There's two types of people in the world. There's the Clark Griswold or Ralphie's dad types, the sort of people who have to go through all the elaborate hoops to have that Good Old Fashioned Whatever Family Christmas and actually enjoy it...and then there's people like me ( ... )