Either is nice in my opinion, I accept them as good tidings of great cheer!
And I get considerable entertainment out of the prigs that ~do~ get upset about this stuff. :~D
People... 
I just gotta love 'em.
Either is nice in my opinion, I accept them as good tidings of great cheer!
And I get considerable entertainment out of the prigs that ~do~ get upset about this stuff. :~D
People... I just gotta love 'em.
This is a non-issue, as far as I'm concerned. Christmas takes over the country for four weeks every year, beginning with the day after Thanksgiving. No one is trying to supress this holiday. Every year it gets bigger and bigger and more outrageous.
Some people just like to feel persecuted.
Oh yea?
Cross MY path and you will get a Merry Christmas! : )
Gosh, I don't mean to frighten anyone....
BTTT
Obviously they haven't gotten the memo yet stating: "Republican President, Forcast Gloomy. Democrat President, Forecast Outstanding, exceeding all expectations!"
I have to admit, I don't get the big deal about an ecumenical greeting. I work in retail in a heavily multicultural area, and I routinely say "Have a happy holiday!". People generally smile, and respond, "You too!". I don't see how "Happy Holidays" discriminates solely against Christians--as all three major monotheistic religions have festivals around this time, I see it as a nice way to include everyone--not Disclude someone, as I would be by wishing "Merry Christmas", "Happy Hanukkah", or a "Have a Tip Top Tet!".
They may not want to hear it but I'll be saying "Merry Christmas" to every checkout person I meet.
why not Happy Festivus?
I worked for a 5-star resort in Hawaii a few years ago, and we had to say "Happy Festive Season". Puh-leeeze!
Same stupid shit...different year.
Merry Christmas to All.
'A merry Christmas, uncle! God save you!' cried a cheerful voice. It was the voice of Scrooge's nephew, who came upon him so quickly that this was the first intimation he had of his approach.
'Bah!' said Scrooge, 'Humbug!'
He had so heated himself with rapid walking in the fog and frost, this nephew of Scrooge's, that he was all in a glow; his face was ruddy and handsome; his eyes sparkled, and his breath smoked again.
'Christmas a humbug, uncle!' said Scrooge's nephew. 'You don't mean that, I am sure?'
'I do,' said Scrooge. 'Merry Christmas! What right have you to be merry? What reason have you to be merry? You're poor enough.'
'Come, then,' returned the nephew gaily. 'What right have you to be dismal? What reason have you to be morose? You're rich enough.'
Scrooge having no better answer ready on the spur of the moment, said, 'Bah!' again; and followed it up with 'Humbug!'
'Don't be cross, uncle.' said the nephew.
'What else can I be,' returned the uncle, 'when I live in such a world of fools as this? Merry Christmas! Out upon merry Christmas. What's Christmas time to you but a time for paying bills without money; a time for finding yourself a year older, but not an hour richer; a time for balancing your books and having every item in them through a round dozen of months presented dead against you? If I could work my will,' said Scrooge indignantly,'every idiot who goes about with 'Merry Christmas' on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart. He should!'
'Uncle!' pleaded the nephew.
'Nephew!' returned the uncle, sternly, 'keep Christmas in your own way, and let me keep it in mine.'
'Keep it!' repeated Scrooge's nephew. 'But you don't keep it.'
'Let me leave it alone, then,' said Scrooge. 'Much good may it do you! Much good it has ever done you!'
'There are many things from which I might have derived good, by which I have not profited, I dare say,' returned the nephew. 'Christmas among the rest. But I am sure I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round -apart from the veneration due to its sacred name and origin, if anything belonging to it can be apart from that-as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow-passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys. And therefore, uncle, though it has never put a scrap of gold or silver in my pocket, I believe that it has done me good, and will do me good; and I say, God bless it!'
MERRY CHRISTMAS!
We wish you a Merry Christmas;
We wish you a Merry Christmas;
We wish you a Merry Christmas
and a Happy New Year.
Good tidings we bring
to you and your kin;
Good tidings for Christmas
and a Happy New Year.
Oh, bring us a figgy pudding;
Oh, bring us a figgy pudding;
Oh, bring us a figgy pudding
and a cup of good cheer
We won't go until we get some;
We won't go until we get some;
We won't go until we get some,
so bring some out here
We wish you a Merry Christmas;
We wish you a Merry Christmas;
We wish you a Merry Christmas
and a Happy New Year.
*<[;o)
Have yourself a merry little Sunday...
"Wal-mart is one of many stores asking its employees to replace Christmas with "Happy Holidays". The company says its trying not to offend anyone, by catering to one kind of celebration"
I heard a local news story on this last week where the store manager said "they didn't want to offend Jewish or Islamic customers by mentioning Christmas" (in the south, mind you). My BS meter went off immediately. They don't want to offend the ATHEISTS. They are the only group that complains about everything Christian. The largest segment of of the Atheist contrares,appears to be (guess who), the gay movement.I make it a point to say Merry Christmas to anyone who gives one of these phony sounding holiday greetings. The workers in the stores seem to appreciate it, as they seem to always smile in agreement.
Gee, ya mean there's a controversy about the use of Holidays versus Christmas? Guess we need another thread on that, then.
"2005: "It's appalling how these stores refuse to commercialize the birth of Jesus."