Committee to Save Merry Christmas

[MarthaK]

Have you all heard of this group, The Committee to Save Merry Christmas?

http://www.savemerrychristmas.org/

I've worked with Manny Zamarono for the past couple of years and there is some great news this year about merchants saying "Merry Christmas."

[Ervserver]

those stores that allow employees to greet customers freely are where I plan to shop ! :-)

[dvdguy]

somebody will throw a hissy you watch

[sheepsnot]

Can you imagine living in Baghdad and getting offended when someone wished you a happy Ramadan? OK, I can't imagine living in Baghdad anyway, but the idea of being offended by someone wishing you well is nuts, even if their holidays don't mean anything to you. We don't have to come up with an all encompassing holiday greeting to avoid offending people and to show how intellectual and tolerant we are; we need to accept the differences and move on. Boy, my soapbox is always close by, isn't it?

[dvdguy]

its the all encompassing greetings that irritate me more

[sheepsnot]

I don't mind them if they are voluntary. Happy Holidays is perfectly fine to me. If you mandate it because people are intolerant of "Christian" greetings, then I have a problem. We might as well all wear gray and call each other comrade.

[dvdguy]

yes telling me to do something is usually not a good idea. If you let me do it, its better

[sheepsnot]

That works around the house, too. If I decide on my own to clean, I'm all into it. As soon as I start getting directives from the boss, the joy is gone and it's time to watch the game.

[dvdguy]

then she gets the wooden spoon

[sheepsnot]

I'm glad the days of rolling pins and frying pans are over. My neighbor actually conked her son in the head with a skillet. He's no worse for wear. Still intellectually equal to a brick.

[dvdguy]

So it was an improvement?

[Jeff Westover]

the rolling pin days are over? Do you have a date for that?

[sheepsnot]

Now that my wife buys those cut and bake cookie rolls at the store, she just hits me with that instead. Effective, and tasty!

[dvdguy]

hurts when they're frozen

[sheepsnot]

There's no reason to freeze them unless you plan on hitting your husband with them. That's premeditated assault with a tasty weapon. 8)

[dvdguy]

sooooo, she freezes them then :D

[mrshamm]

I freeze our cookie dough so that we can bake at our leisure and not have to worry about all the mess of making the dough...however frozen dough does make a good whoopin stick for when the hubby gets outta line...lol. J/k

[Ervserver]

seems like a whole lotta whoopin goin on

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[sheepsnot]

You get that with passionate Christmas freaks.

[dvdguy]

sometimes thats the only way the wife can get things done

[Ervserver]

speaking of such I saw the rolls of dough in the store today of the Christmas variety.

[sheepsnot]

I always go into the store with rolls of dough and come out broke! D'oh!

[Ervserver]

I spend my dough at the hobby stores...I need to own one

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