[exDemMom]

Also, here's a dirty little secret, us gubmint workers not only get paid for Christmas, but unlike other holidays were we get 2X base pay for working those days, anyone who works on Christmas day gets 2.5X base pay.

Well, that's not true if you're a government worker like me. Since I wear green pajamas with velcro patches, and tan combat boots to work, I get paid the same, regardless.

[Impala64ssa]

Gotcha. Surely you don't expect these gutless wonders to step on the toes of the SEIU, CSEA and the other civil serv. unions do you? And speaking of my old neighborhood, there's a house along Pelham Parkway that's literally covered with Christmas decorations, so much so it's become a bit of a tourist attraction. They even made the Guinness Book of Records as the world's most lavishly adorned house. And yet, even though it's a private residence, the ahteists from time to time hire sleazbag lawyers to either threaten legal action or their will look through the NYC building and zoning ordinances to find anything that would put this house in violation.