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To: avant_garde

Hmmm, none of those ubiquitous bells being rung constantly, ringing and ringing and ringing. Sounds like a good place to shop to me.


8 posted on 11/22/2005 9:25:15 PM PST by Grani (Gov. Arnie: "He would steal flies from a blind spider"--Mark Williams, 1530 AM)
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To: Grani
Hmmm, none of those ubiquitous bells being rung constantly, ringing and ringing and ringing. Sounds like a good place to shop to me.

Scrooge. :>)

19 posted on 11/22/2005 9:33:34 PM PST by avant_garde
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I'm with you. None of those annoying beggars at the door to bother you coming and going.


25 posted on 11/22/2005 9:36:50 PM PST by Kellis91789
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The sounds of those bells ringing was one off the BEST parts of Christmas for me growing up in San Francisco (back when SF was still a decent city). It was WONDERFUL to hear them echoing off the canyon-like walls of the buildings and see people putting their spare change in the red buckets. The Salvation Army is one of the few decent charitable organizations that actually does a lot of good work that most people will never hear about.

The BEST part about those bells, though, is that they supposedly drives commies & libs CRAZY!!!


39 posted on 11/22/2005 9:49:54 PM PST by Left2Right ("Democracy isn't perfect, but other governments are so much worse")
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They had to stop the bell ringing years ago at many Salvation Army locations across the country because of the "noise" level. Often they have moved these charities indoors (the malls)and thus they take now take advantage of a greater footpath of shoppers.

Every year the same threat of boycotts. I never shop at Target or another name store always in the news, as I am not into Mega super stores. I tend to put my money into my local economy; but it offends me more for someone to tell me where I can or cannot shop. I also see jobs lost for Americans when groups boycott stores over the holidays.

It is the "Holidays" stretching from Thanksgiving through New Years. Store clerks are never told not to say Merry Christmas (despite the hype Wal-Mart vs Kirby etc. fact check).

The true meaning of Christmas is not about Commercialism. I say shop where you want to shop.

I boycott Boycotts!!!!

Happy Holidays! [all of them]

114 posted on 11/23/2005 5:12:45 AM PST by fight_truth_decay
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To: Grani
Hmmm, none of those ubiquitous bells being rung constantly, ringing and ringing and ringing. Sounds like a good place to shop to me.

Is your name Scrooge?

137 posted on 11/23/2005 6:07:05 AM PST by saminfl
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You don't like bells...care to say why?

Are you a Muslim perhaps?


341 posted on 11/23/2005 6:16:32 PM PST by eleni121 ('Thou hast conquered, O Galilean!' (Julian the Apostate))
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