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Good Tidings To You, You @#$# !#@!#'er
Foamy the neurotically hilarious squirrel has (surprise surprise) something to say about the yuletide season. For those not already familiar with him, please note if the rapid-fire delivery of a helium-voiced dose of commentary and creative profanity would get you in trouble at work, use headphones or wait until you're home.
My feeling exactly including all the bad words that I promise not to use around Olivia. lol
Posted by: Pat on December 5, 2005 10:31 AMI still don't get why everyone's always complaining about Christmas being too "commercialized." The whole thing started as a mercantile holiday in which pagans desperately bartered for the last few moose skins and cords of firewood they'd need to survive the winter. Ninety percent of our Christmas traditions can be traced back to advertising jingles for past Christmas seasons (Rudolph was invented by Woolworth's, Frosty by General Mills, etc.) and the rest probably could be as well, if their origins hadn't been forgotten.
Complaining that Christmas is getting too commercialized is like complaining that Saturday Night Live isn't as funny as it used to be. It's not because anything has changed, it's because you're older and more jaded than you were last year.
Posted by: Tatterdemalian on December 5, 2005 03:32 PMNot really sure you're correct in your assumptions. I believe that originally Christmas was stolen by the early Christian church to supplant Winter Solstice, one of the major pagan sabbats/holy days.
As for the commercialization, I think that's secondary to the original holiday. So, in saying that it's too commercialized, some may be correct. Or, more likely, they're having a nostalgic fit. That being said, Christmas stuff does appear to be coming out earlier and earlier - hell, I don't remember seeing anything for it until after Thanksgiving when I was a kid. Now, I've seen stuff out before Halloween.
The Charlie Brown Christmas Special dedicates quite some time to griping about how commercialized Christmas is becoming, and how Christmas stuff keeps coming up earlier and earlier each year.
Its first air date? 1965.
While the municipal decorations wouldn't come out in my home town until after Thanksgiving, I can clearly remember seeing stuff like christmas trees out just after halloween when I was a kid in the 70s. We griped about it then too!
Posted by: Scott on December 5, 2005 04:13 PMProbably true - I've never been known to be one who pays attention to things going on around him.
Example: The SuperBowl party with the wardrobe malfunction incident. The halftime show is on and the four of us are talking. Scott notices Janet Jackson is now 'exposed' and yells, "Boobies!".
I say, "huh?" and miss it completely. I missed boobies on national TV. In my own place. On my own TV.