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Car crash, heavy traffic turn out Christmas light show(Clark Griswold had nothing on this homeowner)
The Oxford Press ^ | 12/7/05 | Richard Wilson

Posted on 12/07/2005 8:31:33 PM PST by Diddle E. Squat

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21 posted on 12/07/2005 9:08:38 PM PST by Diddle E. Squat ((circle, circle, pant, pant) "We go nonstop, too" (circle, circle, pant, pant...))
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To: Diddle E. Squat

And don't miss the new Barney and Miss Beazley Christmas movie from the White House:

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/12/07/earlyshow/main1102865.shtml

Thread about it:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1535612/posts


22 posted on 12/07/2005 9:11:12 PM PST by Diddle E. Squat ((circle, circle, pant, pant) "We go nonstop, too" (circle, circle, pant, pant...))
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To: Diddle E. Squat
And don't miss the new Barney and Miss Beazley Christmas movie from the White House:

As always, a priceless gem.

23 posted on 12/07/2005 9:15:01 PM PST by hole_n_one
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To: hole_n_one
The notion of peace is not stupid, and it's arrival would be welcome openly and gladly by most.

Nobody prays for peace more than I do but generally those who use the peace symbol are leftist. Touting the symbol for defeat actually causes greater danger for my loved ones.

24 posted on 12/07/2005 9:36:11 PM PST by armymarinemom (My sons freed Iraqi and Afghanistan Honor Roll students.)
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To: patton

oh my!

and i wonder how much his electric bill is?


25 posted on 12/07/2005 9:38:47 PM PST by leda (patton's brown eyed girl)
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To: armymarinemom
I don't know what the rationale of this particular homeowner was in using a symbol for peace in his display.

How many Christmas cards will you receive this year that say something along the lines of Peace on Earth and Goodwill Towards Men?

Will you conclude, based on that sentiment alone, that the sender of that wish is for "defeat"?

I would trust not.

26 posted on 12/07/2005 9:46:07 PM PST by hole_n_one
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To: hole_n_one
How many Christmas cards will you receive this year that say something along the lines of Peace on Earth and Goodwill Towards Men?

Not at all. I honor Peace on Earth and Goodwill. The peace symbol that leftist use has become something other than wishes of peace. After having three years of taunts, middle fingers, and obscenities thrown in my face by people who use that symbol it has become something far different than a symbol for peace.

27 posted on 12/07/2005 9:50:54 PM PST by armymarinemom (My sons freed Iraqi and Afghanistan Honor Roll students.)
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To: Diddle E. Squat

Holey sh!t.


28 posted on 12/07/2005 9:55:26 PM PST by Husker24
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To: jneesy

THAT was simply great.


29 posted on 12/07/2005 9:56:47 PM PST by Sweet_Sunflower29 (If we want the gov't involved in their education, they'll attend public school. *NO* vouchers!)
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To: Diddle E. Squat

How come they are Christmas lights when the stuff hits the fan rather than holiday lights?.Are they predominantly Nativity Oriented, or just a bunch of twinklers?


30 posted on 12/07/2005 10:03:44 PM PST by mathurine (ua)
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To: Diddle E. Squat

I watched the video, and I've read that this is a live show, but I still think that for the video he used some stop-motion stuff. The still pictures they show do not show snowmen all over his yard (or trees, or whatever they are).

In the video he has these rows of white trees/snowmen marching around his yard, forward, back, to the left, and to the right. I think he had 5 of them and posed them -- look at the video, and you don't see any hint of 'turned-off' objects blocking the objects that are "behind" them.

There are a few other things that don't quite look live in the video, but that was the most obvious.

Still awesome though. Anybody have an opinion about the video?


31 posted on 12/07/2005 10:04:55 PM PST by CharlesWayneCT
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To: armymarinemom
Maybe the homeowner couldn't find a dove holding an olive branch with all the twinkling lights or maybe the words Peace on Earth wouldn't fit on his garage door.

To me, saying the display was "ruined" because of the use of the peace symbol without knowing the homeowner's mindset, given the time of year, is being very narrowminded and quite unfair.

I could see if it was the middle of June and there was an illuminated peace symbol on someone's home, but at Christmas?

32 posted on 12/07/2005 10:06:48 PM PST by hole_n_one
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To: hole_n_one
To me, saying the display was "ruined" because of the use of the peace symbol without knowing the homeowner's mindset, given the time of year, is being very narrowminded and quite unfair.

Sorry but those folks have made my life miserable. Perhaps it was the leftist who spit on my son before he spent Christmas in Afghanistan that was a total turnoff for me. Who knows. I can tell you that it was a total repulsion as soon as I saw the symbol.

33 posted on 12/07/2005 10:11:36 PM PST by armymarinemom (My sons freed Iraqi and Afghanistan Honor Roll students.)
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To: leda
I have between 25,000 and 30,000 lights (depends on how much I can get put up before christmas, last year I got to about 27,000). It cost me about an extra $100 it appears on the bill.

I replaced all my lights over the past 3 years with the lower-power versions, (went from .34 amps/100 lights to .2 amps/100 lights).

I consider my stuff tasteful. Here is the link to the sole picture I have on the web for my lights: My Web Page -- Picture is on right

I don't know how to make this picture appear here.

34 posted on 12/07/2005 10:18:04 PM PST by CharlesWayneCT
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To: curlewbird
Yeah, we noticed that too, when we watched it at work today. Still, just goes to show you what you can do with a computer and too much time on your hands!!

It is great. I wonder how may hours they spent on this.

35 posted on 12/07/2005 10:20:27 PM PST by armymarinemom (My sons freed Iraqi and Afghanistan Honor Roll students.)
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To: CharlesWayneCT

Wow! I bet that would make our Maine bill go up way more than $100. Great work!


36 posted on 12/07/2005 10:22:15 PM PST by armymarinemom (My sons freed Iraqi and Afghanistan Honor Roll students.)
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To: armymarinemom
I understand and appreciate your negative reaction to what has become for many, a symbol and a tool for an agenda that is anti-American and completely opposite of what peace really means.

However, I'm not yet at the point that has me thinking the worst........until I know better, I'm still holding out hope for the best.

37 posted on 12/07/2005 10:23:52 PM PST by hole_n_one
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To: CharlesWayneCT

Sweet!


38 posted on 12/07/2005 10:25:21 PM PST by hole_n_one
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To: hole_n_one
However, I'm not yet at the point that has me thinking the worst........until I know better, I'm still holding out hope for the best.

Good for you. Sorry about us narrow minded folks who have been shoved into avoiding people who use it.

39 posted on 12/07/2005 10:25:31 PM PST by armymarinemom (My sons freed Iraqi and Afghanistan Honor Roll students.)
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To: Diddle E. Squat
That is the coolest light display I've ever seen, excluding Disney. Too bad he didn't use Holiday Christmas music.
40 posted on 12/07/2005 10:28:11 PM PST by CommandoFrank (Peer into the depths of hell and there you will find the face of Islam...)
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