Originally Posted By gurgitoy2 Oh please, like a boycott of Walmart will work. It will be just like the episode of Family Guy when everyone gets upset at the "big box" store and decides to protest. Peter leads the charge, but once inside the store, he decides he likes it and thus gets a job there...only to go back outside and tell the protestors to get off the property. These boycotts never work, didn't they learn anything from the Southern Baptists? LOL.
Originally Posted By gurgitoy2 Oh, and to the topic of "Christmas" or "Holidays"...I can understand how some might be uncomfortable with "Christmas", however, in my opinion, it's really come so far from being a religious holiday that it really shouldn't bother anybody. Yes, it has "Christ" in the name, but I would say that it's so secular now that it's almost a generic holiday anyway. Look at how Japan embraced "Christmas" and there isn't a stitch of religion in it...they just care about Santa and Presents and the trappings...which is pretty much what it's been here for years now.
Originally Posted By jdub <<Look at how Japan embraced "Christmas" and there isn't a stitch of religion in it...they just care about Santa and Presents and the trappings...which is pretty much what it's been here for years now.>> Ayup. To not be overly hypocritical, I just started pronouncing it "Exmuss."
Originally Posted By TALL Disney Guy But it's pronounced "CRISS-mus". Nobody pronounces it "KREIST-mus" anyway.
Originally Posted By knightnfrees Good thing it's not I-mus. I don't think you'll hever hear the words "Merry" and Imus" put together. LOL.
Originally Posted By fkurucz >>Ayup. To not be overly hypocritical, I just started pronouncing it "Exmuss."<< No saw the Futurama "Xmas" episode, right?
Originally Posted By jdub Actually, no! But of course "Xmas" has been around since before my lifetime-- (and then there's "XXXmas," but that's simply not for a sweet simple little thing like me)
Originally Posted By TomSawyer What about Festivus? You know, now that I think about it I think I'll try reading Jonvn's posts with Frank Costanza's voice. "I gotta lot of problems with you people!"
Originally Posted By fkurucz >>Actually, no! But of course "Xmas" has been around since before my lifetime-- (and then there's "XXXmas," but that's simply not for a sweet simple little thing like me)<< True, but that episode was the first time I ever heard someone pronounce the abbreviation 'Xmas' as exmuss (Fry is told the Christmas was renamed Exmuss sometime in the distant past).
Originally Posted By mawnck I once heard a song recorded in England during World War 1 that pronounced it "exmuss." They only did it once, and I think it was intended as a kind of cutesy gag on the abbreviated spelling. Nevertheless, there it was, sometime in the 1910's.
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Originally Posted By cmpaley Calling Christmas by the moniker of Xmas is STILL Christian in character. X is the first letter for Christ in Greek, as any Orthodox or Eastern Rite Catholic can tell you. IC XC is how Jesus Christ is referred to in Christian iconography. IC are the first two Greek letters in Jesus and XC are the first two letters in Greek for Christ.
Originally Posted By jdub I just got this mental image of the lawn decoration scheme I see around every once in a while... a nativity scene, with Santa and/or a snowman in line to pay their respects. First time I ever saw that, yearssssss ago, I pulled over, stepped out of my car & snapped a photo.
Originally Posted By jonvn The people across the street from us decorate their house every year to an extreme degree. This last year, they had a little nativity scene. But instead of where Our Lord the Baby Jesus was supposed to be, they had put in a glowing wrapped present. At least, that is what it seemed. I am not sure, but I don't think they realized how it looked.
