Wal Mart Will Say "Merry Christmas" This Year

[Jaymes]

I think it's a last-ditch effort to appease the evangelicals threatening to boycott Wal-Mart over supporting gay rights.

 

[BUDDY]

Science be damned I hate Wal Mart!!

 

[Jaymes]

I'd like to add that Japan (a mainly atheist country)

Whaaat, where'd you get that? According to the CIA World Factbook, 84% are Shinto and Buddhist.

 

[nutshell]

Who should care?! Jesus wasn't even likely born in december. It was placed there to fit the pagan seasonal holiday, which is what the early church did a lot to nudge the european pagans into christianity.

I'm just glad soem pagan traditions like the Christmas Tree are still kept. Although, I do hate though how this holiday has become all about money.

Apprently you've misread my post or didn't read my previous posts because I DON'T care.

 

[doppelganger]

Why doesn't Wal-Mart wish its customers a "Happy Festivus?" And why don't they carry Festivus poles???

(And now, for the "Airing of Grievances!")

Wake me up for the feats of strength.

 

[nutshell]

Whaaat, where'd you get that? According to the CIA World Factbook, 84% are Shinto and Buddhist.

That might be what a person claims to be or it may be the tradition they follow, but when you get down to it and ask if they believe in God or a type of god - then the answer is usually "unsure" or I don't know.

Just because I have a standard Japanese funeral based on Buddhist tradition or a Shinto-based wedding does not make me Shinto or Buddhist.

In fact, most Japanese brides are opting for Western style weddings with a Christian priest, white dress, and all. Does that make them Christian now?

 

[sojourner]

Wake me up for the feats of strength.

Let's do a poll (someone start it): Who among us should be chosed to perform the Feats of Strength???

 

[lunamoth]

Well Sojourner's avatar has a whole body while doppel's just has two disembodied hands. I think Soj would win that match. I wouldn't pit my moth against anyone, except maybe cardero's Spongebob character.

luna

 

[Sunstone]

Let's do a poll (someone start it): Who among us should be chosed to perform the Feats of Strength???

I can simultaneouusly lift seven fully inflated Acme Latex Love Dolls. Does that count?

 

[doppelganger]

I can simultaneouusly lift seven fully inflated Acme Latex Love Dolls. Does that count?

You must be exhausted.

 

[sojourner]

Well Sojourner's avatar has a whole body while doppel's just has two disembodied hands. I think Soj would win that match. I wouldn't pit my moth against anyone, except maybe cardero's Spongebob character.

luna

Yeah, but my avatar's obviously (as PDQ Bach would say) unglaubliche trunken = "unbelievably drunk." ... Wait a minute! Maybe that's to my advantage! (My evil Festivus plan is coming together nicely. Bwahahaha!!!) Take that, Wal-Mart!

 

[lunamoth]

Yeah, but my avatar's obviously (as PDQ Bach would say) unglaubliche trunken = "unbelievably drunk." ... Wait a minute! Maybe that's to my advantage! (My evil Festivus plan is coming together nicely. Bwahahaha!!!) Take that, Wal-Mart!

And Doppelganger does have those two pencils to stab you with...perhaps it's a more even match than I first thought.

 

[sojourner]

I can simultaneouusly lift seven fully inflated Acme Latex Love Dolls. Does that count?

I can simultaneously lift a 7% beer...while belching.

Can't someone here simultaneously lift seven fully bouncy girls on trampolines???

 

[lunamoth]

Oh, the debauchery! And Festivus used to be such a nice family holiday.

 

[doppelganger]

Oh, the debauchery! And Festivus used to be such a nice family holiday.

Sounds like it's high time we started a War on Festivus, too.

 

[doppelganger]

Here's Sam Seder on the "War on Christmas" from a CNN transcript:

SAM SEDER, HOST, "MAJORITY REPORT": Thanks for having us on.

PHILLIPS: Let's start with the holiday card. What do you think, Sam?

SEDER: Listen, as far as the war on Christmas goes, I feel like we should be waging a war on Christmas. I mean, I believe that Christmas, it's almost proven that Christmas has nuclear weapons, can be an imminent threat to this country, that they have operative ties with terrorists and I believe that we should sacrifice thousands of American lives in pursuit of this war on Christmas. And hundreds of billions of dollars of taxpayer money.

PHILLIPS: Is it a war on Christmas, a war Christians, a war on over-political correctness or just a lot of people with way too much time on their hands?

SEDER: I would say probably, if I was to be serious about it, too much time on their hands, but I'd like to get back to the operational ties between Santa Claus and al Qaeda.

PHILLIPS: I don't think that exists. Bob? Help me out here.

SEDER: We have intelligence, we have intelligence.

PHILLIPS: You have intel. Where exactly does your intel come from?

SEDER: Well, we have tortured an elf and it's actually how we got the same information from Al Libbi.

 

[sojourner]

Oh, the debauchery! And Festivus used to be such a nice family holiday.

Kind of like the "Twelve Steps of Christmas..."

 

[lunamoth]

Here's Sam Seder on the "War on Christmas" from a CNN transcript:

Yup, too much time on their hands I think. :badger:

 

[Booko]

what if i poop on the christmas tree?

I think Public Health might have something to say about that.

 

[Booko]

I'm just glad soem pagan traditions like the Christmas Tree are still kept. Although, I do hate though how this holiday has become all about money.

This reminds me about one year after we moved into this neighborhood, when my Mom (Christian) was coming to visit, and my Jewish neighbor asked me why we were putting up a tree. I replied something about having a fondness for some pagan customs.

Actually, when she's visiting we do put up a tree and have dinner and exchange presents, as a matter of "honor your mother." Which is how my neighbor explained it to her kids too.