I was going to say “Christmas” but I guess its “The Holiday season” now…

Sad that no tree hugger was attached to that tree.

“Alot” isn’t a word.

“It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas” is a classic Christmas song written in 1951 by Meredith Willson.
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JB is the grammarian of the day :)

At the risk of opening the tap of endless posts … interceptor raises an interesting point

How is it not PC to wish some one Merry Christmas? My Muslim friends, Jewish colleagues along with atheists acquaintances have all used the term “Merry Christmas” in the most positive regard over the years and I often reciprocate with the positive wishes for their respective religious and cultural occasions when appropriate. So what is this PC that lashes out at the joy that recognition of our special occasions brings to our friends, regardless of religious beliefs
and cultural heritage?

It is great to see the Christmas trees go up and to appreciate the positive in the community that many of the associated fundraising activities brings forward.

Alot is poetic license ……:-)

I use Merry Christmas to everyone. If who I use it with get’s offended or I get a stink eye I will reiterate with a very jolly Merry F-ing Christmas.

It’s my small way of trying to remove all of the PC bullshit that is happening these days.

It’s beginning to look a lot like….Christmas!

Even worse, and I see it on here often, “allot”. (shiver).

I have never been given the “stink-eye” when wishing someone a Merry Christmas. Although it is too bad that “Christmas” is such a non-PC word these days.

Well I just think its disrespectful to even begin putting up a tree or decorations, or bringing Christmas into the stores until after Rememberance Day. Chrsitmas has its place in the sequence of holidays and I don’t think its right to allow it to crowd out other important dates like Remembrance Day… we don’t do this to Halloween, so why can’t they just wait another 11 days.

On another note of interest. Some like us to diminish Christmas by calling it the Holidays… ie taking Christ out of the date we celebrate his birth. Those who hate Christ that is.

They go so far as to say well Hanukkah is also at the same time as Christmas, so therefor it should be called the holidays. Hanukkah being the Hebrew celebration of the 2nd temple in Jerusalem in the 2nd century AD when they removed the temple to Zeus (Syria had outlawed the Hebrew religion) and thus they rededicated the temple.

The big problem to this line of shared date reasoning is that the Hebrew calender is a lunar calender meaning that the true actual date of Hanukkah could come on any date from late November through to late December. Only in 2016 will these dates actually coincide with the lunar calender and the Gregorian calender.

So when we hear of Hanukkah celebrations on Christmas Day it is essentially a way of saying we reject Christ and are willing to pervert to the public the true date of Hanukkah so as to take away from and diminish the believers celebration of Christ. This happens all the time every year somewhere and its simply poor way of treating other peoples religious beliefs. A way of demoting Christ on his birthday to simply another day of holiday shopping and general oblivion.

I think its wrong and to each their own. If one is Jewish then celebrate Hanukkah on the lunar calendar date that is appropriate, and if one is Christian then they should be able to be proud of this and call their celebration for what it truly is, a celebration of the birth of Christ.

Hey it’s a story! Mind you a good one!!