War on Christmas (now featuring multiple holidays!)

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  1. argentine soccer fan

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    Jan 18, 2001
    San Francisco Bay Area
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    CA Boca Juniors
    Nat'l Team:
    Argentina
    In hell probably, if there is a hell.
     
  2. roby

    roby Member+

    SIRLOIN SALOON FC, PITTSFIELD MA
    Feb 27, 2005
    So Cal
    On the1st day of Xmas my Billie will give to me
    A partridge in a pear tree
    On the 2nd day of Xmas my Billie will make for me
    A partridge in a fricassee...w/roasted patats and green beans...pear cobbler for dessert! :thumbsup:
     
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  3. spejic

    spejic Cautionary example

    Mar 1, 1999
    San Rafael, CA
    Club:
    San Jose Earthquakes
    All I want for Christmas is a neg rep button. Sweet Elvis almighty that picture was bad.
     
  4. Cascarino's Pizzeria

    Apr 29, 2001
    New Jersey, USA
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  5. Q*bert Jones III

    Q*bert Jones III The People's Poet

    Feb 12, 2005
    Woodstock, NY
    Club:
    DC United
  6. dapip

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    Sep 5, 2003
    South Florida
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    Millonarios Bogota
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    Colombia
  7. Cascarino's Pizzeria

    Apr 29, 2001
    New Jersey, USA
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  8. Dyvel

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    Jul 24, 1999
    The dog end of a day gone by
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    Leeds United AFC
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    Ireland Republic
  9. Q*bert Jones III

    Q*bert Jones III The People's Poet

    Feb 12, 2005
    Woodstock, NY
    Club:
    DC United
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    "Santa Devouring An Elf" by Jim'll Paint It
     
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  10. spejic

    spejic Cautionary example

    Mar 1, 1999
    San Rafael, CA
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    San Jose Earthquakes
    This seems useful.

     
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  11. spejic

    spejic Cautionary example

    Mar 1, 1999
    San Rafael, CA
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    San Jose Earthquakes
  12. Dr. Wankler

    Dr. Wankler Member+

    May 2, 2001
    The Electric City
    Club:
    Chicago Fire
    Worked in the friendly neighborhood coffeeshop for three hours yesterday. Heard four different versions of that song (including a gay one!). Mercifully, I was spared Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas Is You."
     
  13. Sounders78

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    Apr 20, 2009
    France
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    Seattle Sounders
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    France

    Was the gay one the version from Glee?

     
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  14. Dr. Wankler

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    May 2, 2001
    The Electric City
    Club:
    Chicago Fire
    I don't think so because, IIRC, one of the singers from the coffeehouse was a baritone.

    And given how many versions of "Santa Baby" I've heard this year, I'm surprised I haven't heard a gay version of that one yet.
     
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  15. spejic

    spejic Cautionary example

    Mar 1, 1999
    San Rafael, CA
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    San Jose Earthquakes
    My favorite version is one done by a single singer so it plays as an internal debate.

    My store has moved from standards towards original Christmas music and even though a lot of it is country it's a welcome change.
     
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  16. Dr. Wankler

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    May 2, 2001
    The Electric City
    Club:
    Chicago Fire
    I'm actually pretty sick of the contemporary Christmas music by now.

    Though the baristas are having a tougher time of it. Alas for them, the coffeehouse is in a remodeled old house, and the owners live right upstairs. They're under orders.
     
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  17. bigredfutbol

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    Sep 5, 2000
    Woodbridge, VA
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    DC United
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    United States
    One of the handful of things I miss from my days as a churchgoer: Christmas caroling.
     
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  18. rslfanboy

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    Jul 24, 2007
    Section 26
    It may be uncomfortable, but I have a hard time thinking that any sensible parish would turn down an agnostic/atheist caroler.
     
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  19. bigredfutbol

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    Sep 5, 2000
    Woodbridge, VA
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    DC United
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    United States
    I'm sure they wouldn't. And there's nothing stopping me from doing so except laziness and a disinclination to sign up for group activities. :)

    It's just that as a kid, I HAD to do all that stuff (my parents were BIG into church) and while becoming an adult meant I no longer had to go along with any of it, in retrospect in my middle age I've found myself a bit wistful for certain aspects (the social/community side of things) I enjoyed. There was a coziness to it that I didn't remember enjoying and didn't even realized I missed until decades later.
     
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  20. soccernutter

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    Aug 22, 2001
    Near the mountains.
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    United States
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    Dec 11, 2000
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  22. Q*bert Jones III

    Q*bert Jones III The People's Poet

    Feb 12, 2005
    Woodstock, NY
    Club:
    DC United
    #1998 Q*bert Jones III, Dec 14, 2024
    Last edited: Dec 14, 2024
    Next time someone reminds you that Die Hard is a Christmas movie:

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  23. Val1

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    Arsenal
    Mar 12, 2004
    MD's Eastern Shore
    Club:
    Arsenal FC
    Our Christmas book tree.

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    It is weird, though. It's killed conversation. We've had our two parties, yesterday and this evening, and it's a hit. Everyone loves it, but everyone is standing around, peering at the book titles. These books that have been in the living room, the den and the guest room. For the past 30 years...
     
  24. spejic

    spejic Cautionary example

    Mar 1, 1999
    San Rafael, CA
    Club:
    San Jose Earthquakes
    Yeah, but this puts it front and center. And I get why people want to study it.

    It's one of the things I don't like about the move from books to readers and DVDs to streaming. I have a large number of the old fashioned media, and they serve as a display of what I am and in the event I get any visitors they can figure me out that way. When everything is privately held in the ether you can't study them, or at least their public, aspirational selves.
     

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