Speed Bump
Christmas can’t get here fast enough, can it? As soon as you hear that first Christmas song on the radio in October, ’tis the season!
Zombie Boy
The Unlife of the Party!
Christmas can’t get here fast enough, can it? As soon as you hear that first Christmas song on the radio in October, ’tis the season!
Haha, there’s a theory that there are as many holidays in the winter years is to combat SADs..perhaps Christmas was meant for that too
Those pilgrims should have held off having their day of giving thanks until after the holidays! Thanksgiving is just not holly and jolly enough, we need to get it out of the way so Christmas can start.
They should move xmas to the end of January so we have more time for lights!!!
That’s about the time my neighbors start taking their lights down anyway. Some of the lazier ones just leave ’em up all year.
A lot of people around here leave them up all year. Thankfully they’re not lit up most of the year.
They’re either too lazy to take them down, or just getting a head start on the next season.
Preemptive celebration is one of my biggest pet-pevs but as bad as early decoration is, X-mas songs taking over the radio on November 1st is unforgivable!
Yes, I absolutely agree. It’s sad that by Dec. 5 you’re sick and tired of Christmas music, it used to mean so much when we were kids….
Bah Humbug. The shops drive me nuts with all their xmas stuff in your face everywhere you look & when those obligatory wretched xmas carols start their incessant droning in the supermarkets & department stores I just wanna gag & ban myself from shopping till new years day. Bah Humbug…
Another aspect that really annoys me is that here in Australia all the decorations, cards, carols etc promotes the Northern Hemisphere Winter xmas & here it’s the middle of summer. It just don’t make sense…
Haha Tony, you’ve got a double-whammy. Not only do you have to deal with the redundant Christmas BS like we do, you have to deal with it in balmy weather! A little snow, at least, goes a long way to ease someone into the holiday spirit. I don’t envy you one bit. It’s like they’ve desensitized us to the charm of the holiday by drowning us in the tide of the yuletide. And don’t get me started on Christmas music! We have a local radio station that starts playing nothing but Xmas music around Halloween and plays nothing but that until New Year’s! Uggh!
Come on now, we need to get all these other days/holidays out of the way for presents!
You have to endure a month of sleigh bells jingling to get there, though. It’s not for the squeamish! But the presents part I can definitely deal with.
Thanksgiving got run over by a reindeer
walking home from a black friday sale
You’d say theres no such thing as Tur-Duc-En
But as for me and Tom Turkey, ….we believe!
Yer welcome! [smirk]
“Thanksgiving got run over by a reindeer” is the best slogan about the holiday I’ve heard yet, Jynksie! Really sums it up!
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Thanks Michael!
no thanksgiving here in holland here we have sinterklaas he’s like santaclause with a shoe fetish…wait thats sounds weird … he puts food in our shoes at night…. it’s not helping is it?..annyway 5dec. presents!
So let me get this right. Whatever Sinterklaas gives you has to fit in a shoe? I’d be SOL, because that big screen TV I asked for sure wouldn’t fit! Shoe fetish, lol.
yeah thats why you don’t see bigfoot in america annymore he knew where he could place his shoes 😛
Lol, that is a crazy funny idea, Bob! I imagine Bigfoot could fit a LOT of good stuff in his shoes!
You said a mouthful with that one. If it was up to the stores, they’d just skip Thanksgiving altogether.
Christmas has Santa Claus, Rudolph, George Bailey, Ebeneezer Scrooge, Frosty, Hermey the Dentist, the Grinch, Snow Meiser, Heat Meiser, Scut Farcas, Yukon Corneilius, Jack Skellington, Cindy Lou Who, Tiny Tim, the Little Drummer Boy, Ralphie Parker, Buddy the Elf, Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, the list goes on. What does Thanksgiving have? A plucked bird and some hungry pilgrims.
More like an appetizer…a very, very, very BIG appetizer!
Thanksgiving is like a step-child holiday. People only pay attention to it because they know there’s pie involved.
I totally agree with ZB’s observation!
Poor Thanksgiving. I bet it has a real inferior complex around Christmas.
Why not just start the Christmas season in June?
It’s getting there, Jerry, lol, just wait…
HAH! Here in Lebanon the Christmas decorations and songs already started about a week ago…as well as the Christmas groans when people heard “Last Christmas” for the zillionth time on the radio.
Well, it’s certainly nice to know that Christmas groan is planetary! Too much of anything is never a good thing, especially for the zillion and one playing of “Last Christmas.’
We don’t have thanksgiving in the UK (obviously) but we start Christmas adverts an hour after Easter. 😀
Haha, I blame it all on Dickens!
So true. After Halloween it is basically a free fall till Christmas.
Christmas rolls over Halloween and Thanksgiving like a tank over a gingerbread house.
Yeah, after Wombat Day, it’s all downhill from there.
Wombat Day supercedes ALL other holidays, right Binky?
Absolutely!
If we have to be bombarded with Christmas rubbish in October then it’s only fair Christmas holidays start then too. Three months off work…yes please!
I agree with you 100% Becky! More holidays, less work days!
Unlike most of my fellow Scotsmen I *do* celebrate Thanksgiving, having married an American who insists on feeding me pumpkin pie to wash down a large turkey-based feast!
As for Christmas, this is my first one as a father and, as a result, is the most excited I’ve felt about Christmas in my whole adult life. Bring it on, Santa!!
That is a great story, Spencey. It’s nice to know that turkey and all the Thanksgiving trimmings are not lost on your side of the Atlantic. And as for Christmas, I’m ecstatic that this is your first one as a father, too! It’s like all that excitement you felt as a child is happening all over again, what a great feeling! I bet this will be a Christmas to remember!
Haha! Just say it like it is! :o)
Christmas is like the alpha male of holidays.