Merry something day, everyone!

My local radio station has already started playing songs like "White Christmas," "Merry Christmas Darling," "I'll be Home for Christmas," "Christmas Time is Here," and they call it, "Holiday music 24-hours a day." Holiday? What holiday? They are not playing Hanukkah songs, they are not playing Thanksgiving songs - they are playing Christmas music.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Christmas Ping!

Catholic Ping - let me know if you want on/off this list

I will still say "merry Christmas" to all of my customers. So sue me.

Maybe you can learn to say:

HAPPY HANARAMAKWANZMAS!!!

OH boy, I better get those pumpkins and leaves down from my windows, and then I'll come back and say

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

I'm just going to make a point of saying Merry Christmas this year.

That's one big Chanukah bush!

:)

I feel sorry for the poor Salvation Army bell ringers who must now exhort you to have "happy holidays". I decided this year, that any time someoone tells me happy holiday, I'm going to give them a big smile and say "MERRY CHRISTMAS!"

I've already started with Merry Christmas. No Happy holiday or kwazy kwanzaa from me.

I refuse to "Holiday shop" - Merry Christmas to all! We should send all these Christmas-phobes lumps of coal. Ho-ho-ho!

sciencediet, I think you need to revise your graphic. Tomorrow, Nov. 30th, is St. Andrew's day and there is nothing in your graphic to celebrate the patron saint o' Scotland!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

I'm at the point where if I hear the word "Holiday" I want to throw up.

I think I'm going to get a bumper sticker or something that says "Jesus is the reason for the season" or "Put the Christ in Christmas" - anyone know where I can buy ones like that?

God Save Scotland!

take a look here:

https://www.bumpertalk.com/~bumper/cgi-bin/cart.cgi/BA119B.html

i'm not selling anything, i just googled for you. there are other sites selling them as well.

What's almost as offensive as all this "Happy Holidays" nonsense is the fact that we're bombarded with it practically right after Halloween, and certainly right after Thanksgiving. So by the time Christmas finally rolls around, many folks are all burned out.

Tomorrow, Nov. 30th, is St. Andrew's day

Thanks for the reminder!! From "Scotland On Sunday"

Catholic leader calls for St Andrew's holiday

THE NEW leader of Scotland’s Catholics has called for St Andrew’s Day to be made a national holiday.

Cardinal Keith O’Brien also said he wanted to use his position "re-Christianise Scotland" and urged civic leaders to set up nativity scenes.

O’Brien, the Archbishop of St Andrews and Edinburgh, was speaking at a Mass of Thanksgiving in St Mary’s Cathedral to mark his elevation to the College of Cardinals last month.

He told the congregation in Edinburgh, which included First Minister Jack McConnell and SNP leader John Swinney: "I ask you all to recognise the feast of our patron saint, St Andrew, on November 30 each year.

"Help would be given in this if our parliament recognised this day, St Andrew’s Day, as a national holiday. In this way, we bring to the fore the fact that as a country we have as our patron one of the great followers of Jesus Christ."

O’Brien, who said he wanted to work closely with other Christian denominations, also stressed the importance of making Scots more aware of the country’s 1,600-year Christian heritage.

"I believe the time has come for a concerted effort to re-Christianise Scotland while also being aware of those of other faiths in our midst," he said.

Today O’Brien was due to dedicate the nativity scene in Edinburgh’s Princes Street Gardens.

At the mass he called for such scenes to be erected across the country.

"Aware of the memorials which are the focus of prayer on Remembrance Sunday and aware of the ways in which considerable sums of money are spent on Christmas displays, I think it only appropriate there be a nativity scene at the centre of the celebrations of our communities," he said.

Scots are special.

I just made up my mind. I usually drop a dollar in the Salvation Army pot. But if I get a "Happy Holiday" I'm gonna snatch it back.

By the way, doesn't "Holiday" mean "Holyday"?

I usually drop a dollar in the Salvation Army pot. But if I get a "Happy Holiday" I'm gonna snatch it back.

Hey, don't penalize the Salvation Army, I think they are one of the few charities left that actually do something good with your donations. Besides, I bet they're under some sort of stupid communist rules requiring them to say that.

HISTORY LESSON:

When Jesus and his disciples walked the dusty roads of Israel, it was considered pagan (Ishtar Worship) to celebrate anyone's birthday.

And you can bet all you have that Jesus celebrated Chanukah every year! He also clebrated Passover Pentecost and Tabernacles because His Daddy had said to do it "forever." He was celebrating a Passover Seder when he said "As often as you do this, do it in remembrance of me."

Who commanded Christmas and Easter? And why is Easter named after a pagan goddess? Think about it before you defend "Christmas" too fiercely.