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Originally Posted by Callie Valleywood
Beat you BCG!
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Beat me? You think you're going to entice me to visit with you if you intend to physically assault me when I get there?
Oh, you meant you got a holiday post up before I did.
Sorry, but I don't generally put up holiday posts. And I'm not in the mood to do so during this part of the year, until and unless we as a society start to recognize Halloween and Thanksgiving as their own holidays again, and stop this depressing trend of interpreting Halloween as "Christmas pregame" and Thanksgiving as "Christmas halftime". There's enough damn Christmas for one year if you celebrate it from Thanksgiving to New Year's.
Hell, for the original Christians it was enough to celebrate it for 12 days (from Christmas through the feast of the Epiphany (January 6)).*
Further this old geezer sayeth not.
Cheers,
bcg
*By the way, here's a historical tidbit from bcg: those "Twelve Days of Christmas" we sing about every year? They're the 12 days from December 25 to January 6. Also Shakespeare's play, "Twelfth Night"? Another reference to classical Christmastide (12/25-1/6). You're welcome.