My "cutting edge" 1950's-era Grandma had one of those. I always thought it was very pretty!
Posted on 11/24/2005 7:24:18 AM PST by docbnj
O Holiday Tree, O Holiday Tree? Boston creates prickly scene by not calling N.S. evergreen Christmas tree By BEVERLEY WARE South Shore Bureau
BEECH HILL — Donnie Hatt says if he’d known the tree he donated to Boston would be called a holiday tree, "I’d have cut it down and put it through the chipper."
Boston should "just put Return to Sender on it because we sent it as a Christmas tree, not a holiday tree," the Chester Basin man said Wednesday after a barrage of phone calls from U.S. television and radio stations and newspapers.
Mr. Hatt and his wife, Annette, donated the majestic 14-meter white spruce that had stood in their front yard for 36 years as Nova Scotia’s annual gift to Boston to thank the people of that city for their help in the wake of the Halifax Explosion in 1917.
The tree, its hundreds of branches now decorated with thousands of light bulbs, will be lit up next Thursday in a celebration the City of Boston calls its "official holiday tree lighting." The city also promotes Nova Scotia’s 34th gift of a towering white spruce at the Boston Common as a "holiday tree" on its website.
Mr. Hatt is none too happy with that, calling the decision "a bunch of bullcrap."
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I left Mass a year ago-no regrets.
This holiday crap has got to stop. If we claim to be so tolerant of all religions, why the hell can't we mention Christmas? Would we ever refer to the "holiday candle holder thingy? Of course not.
we put to much emphasis on the tree anyway, dontcha think? the season we celebrate is "Christmas" symbolic of the birth of Christ. If pegans, and heathens choose not to recognize it then let them walk their road, we all know where it leads, and we don't have to take part in it ourselves.
As soon as I get a job offer... I'm 'outta the gulag!
One year, my niece was working in a convenience store and she wished a customer "Merry Christmas". The customer went berserk on her, yelling and screaming.
I was not there to see if, which is the reason I am posting this from home today, rather than prison. I wanted to stomp the person to death, when I heard my niece tell me of it. Imagine assaulting and browbeating a kid in public for being "incorrect"!
(Really, really getting tired of it...)
Next year they should send them one of those shiny aluminum trees with the color wheel.
I'll bet there's one of those in a box someplace up in my parents' attic...
My "cutting edge" 1950's-era Grandma had one of those. I always thought it was very pretty!
"One year, my niece was working in a convenience store and she wished a customer "Merry Christmas". The customer went berserk"
Maybe if she should have wished them "a short life, and hope you rot in hell." Next thing you know, it will be told that the only reason the Pilgrims left was because of a desire to relocate out of England because of the school district. "God? God who?"
It's all rather confusing. A holiday tree? Which holiday? Halloween, Easter, 4th of July, Labor Day? What does one decorate their Labor Day tree with?
It's all rather confusing. A holiday tree? Which holiday? Halloween, Easter, 4th of July, Labor Day? What does one decorate their Labor Day tree with?
"The customer went berserk on her, yelling and screaming."
Like throwing holy water on 'em.
I wonder does Ted "The Swimmer" Kennedy and the John "Vietnam Surfer Boy" Kerry have Holiday Trees or Christmas trees in their homes.
I left the Mass State of Confusion in 1980, joined the Marine Corps, saw the world and never looked back!
There was no time like the 50's. Look how cute you look here. Girls looked so sweet back then. They dressed like ladies and always looked so cute. I love the photo. Thank you for the reminder of how modest young girls used to be and to dress.
There was no time like the 50's. Look how cute you look here. Girls looked so sweet back then. They dressed like ladies and always looked so cute. I love the photo. Thank you for the reminder of how modest young girls used to be and to dress.
I heard a seasonal song being played recently:
"We wish you a merry hol-i-day, we wish you a merry hol-i-day, we wish you a merry hol-i-day and a happy new year!"
a merry hol-i-day
WHAT! THEY SAID "HOLI-DAY"!!!!!? THAT SOUNDS TOO MUCH LIKE "HOLY" DAY, like in JEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESUS!!!. From now on, its "We Wish you a Merry Winters Day". And every mexican named Jesus, will now change their name to Juliuso.
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