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Meryy Xmas no more

posted 12 years ago by lousvr
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Well thank god we still have a few 'old' movies where 'Christmas' and/or 'Merry Christmas' can still be seen and heard.
Nowadays its' 'Happy HOlidays'..
So fudging politically correct it just seems heartless now..
Well things change and usually not for the better...
Lots of other things one can say but what's the point ??

MERRY CHRISTMAS !!!!!!!!

p.s... Every Xmas i watch a number of 'Xmas' movies help me get into the holiday...
There's one I taped <TCM once at 3am...
"A Christmas Past'..
It's a special compilation of movies from 1897 to the 1920's..
It's a riot and at the same time nostalgic... real ordiany people w/some bucks making movies.. hard to believe..
Think it's available for about $15 somewhere... put together by a 'Killiam Collection'..
All these people where having a blast making these movies.. over a century ago.. damn...

[–] MichaelMartinDeSapio 12 years ago

Fortunately, saying "Merry Christmas" is coming back into vogue.

[–] cold_sky 12 years ago

I'm one of those. I'm in my 30s, but I say "Merry Christmas" to everyone, stores, in the street, friends, because I'm sick and tired of not hearing it anymore. I have a Jewish friend who every Christmas, he bitches and moans about hearing the music (it can't be helped if modern renditions of Xmas music sucks ass), but I like to point out all the "Parve" and "Kosher" written all over my food packages, so basically he can STFU for 30 days and take it like a man.

Without really thinking, we were watching Gremlins or something and I mentioned how come we don't see carolers any more and he said if they appeared at his parents' doorstep, they'd punch them out or something.

Not sure what I'm driving at here.

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[–] bootblack987 12 years ago

As long as people say, Merry Kwanzaa, Happy Hanukkah and then Merry Christmas, it's all good. Merry Kwanzaa by the way! (I know...I'm early!) :-D

[–] Bruce7 12 years ago

True. The Collectivist, Relativist, are working to try to dislodge American traditions. They will not succeed. Thanks for the info about "A Christmas Past." I would enjoy viewing that.

Can you fly this plane?
Surely you can't be serious.
I am serious,and don't call me Shirley

[–] lousvr 11 years ago

I had hoped so.. but it seems American traditions are being dislodge.
Sometimes it's good to be old..
It's like I wrote in another thread...
By the 3rd generation removed from a time period.. there's no one with actual experienced it.. Nothing to really compare.. The last of the American Values to me ended by the 40's/50's..

[–] Bruce7 11 years ago

Just keep firm in the faith once delivered to the saints. Keep in prayer.
God bless

Can you fly this plane?
Surely you can't be serious.
I am serious,and don't call me Shirley

[–] joes119-1 11 years ago

"Happy Holidays" isn't about political correctness, it's a way of wishing well to those we don't know.

Where did this victimhood come from, that people like all the above have to feel injured by the well-wishing of others?

Capisce?

[–] Clyburn 11 years ago

It is perhaps one of the lamest, whiniest complaints I hear these days. People upset because not enough Merry Christmas.

Some people don't celebrate Christmas; some people just find it a pain in the butt and would like less of it. They're allowed to feel that way. Just look after yourself and stop trying to control people.

(Funny to see OP using Xmas rather than Christmas. That is often part and parcel of that particular cliched rant. "It's not Xmas - it's Christmas." I guess OP didn't get the memo. The whiners all need to get on the same page!)

[–] viaggio1 10 years ago

Funny to see OP using Xmas rather than Christmas. That is often part and parcel of that particular cliched rant. "It's not Xmas - it's Christmas."

Believe it or not, OP got it right ---

Because the earliest scholarly language of Christianity was Greek (pre-dating Latin), and since the word "Christ" in Greek begins with X, "Xmas" became over time a shorthand, though entirely legitimate form, of "Christmas."

In a lot of early Christian graffiti and artwork, the abbreviations "IX" and "IXOYE" frequently show up --- the "IX" would have been understood (by Christians) as the Greek abbreviation for Jesus Christ.

(Thus endeth the lesson --- now time for flapjacks !!)

J'ai l'œil AMÉRICAIN !

[–] apachewind 11 years ago

"'Happy Holidays' isn't about political correctness, it's a way of wishing well to those we don't know."

Well, that was about as concise and insightful a response as I have seen on these boards. Well played.

[–] crlnrgbrght5 11 years ago

When the OP commented that things change and usually not for the better, I'll have to remember that whenever Someone tells Me, "Times have changed, this is the 21st Century".

[–] LindaY 10 years ago

"Happy Holidays" GOES BACK TO THE TURN OF THE CENTURY. You can see this phrase being used in magazines from 1900. "Happy Holidays" at the least encompasses both Christmas and New Year, and also includes Hanukkah and Kwanzaa for those who celebrate. Yeesh, guys. No one makes a fuss over "Seasons Greetings" and that's even more generic (and also has been in use since the turn of the last century).