Are these Jim's Xmas decorations?
 

"Harry Krause" wrote in message
...

http://tinyurl.com/brcw7

There's just no end to bad taste.

What I really want to know is what all the immediate neighbors did to ****
off the subject homeowner, inducing him to set up such a light show. No one
would set up something like that because they like it............... would
they?

Are these Jim's Xmas decorations?
 

On Sun, 4 Dec 2005 16:59:04 -0500, "John Gaquin"
wrote:


"Harry Krause" wrote in message
...

http://tinyurl.com/brcw7

There's just no end to bad taste.

What I really want to know is what all the immediate neighbors did to ****
off the subject homeowner, inducing him to set up such a light show. No one
would set up something like that because they like it............... would
they?

I think he did it with Photoshop and Powerpoint!

--
John H

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Wishing you peace, fellowship, and good humor as we celebrate the birth of our Lord, Jesus Christ on the Christmas Holy Day.

Are these Jim's Xmas decorations?
 

"John Gaquin" wrote in message
...

"Harry Krause" wrote in message
...

http://tinyurl.com/brcw7

There's just no end to bad taste.

What I really want to know is what all the immediate neighbors did to ****
off the subject homeowner, inducing him to set up such a light show. No
one would set up something like that because they like it...............
would they?


If I had the time, the talent, and the resources, you bet I would. That
light show rocks! I love christmas lights.

Bryan

Are these Jim's Xmas decorations?
 

Bryan wrote:
"John Gaquin" wrote in message
...

"Harry Krause" wrote in message
...

http://tinyurl.com/brcw7

There's just no end to bad taste.

What I really want to know is what all the immediate neighbors did to ****
off the subject homeowner, inducing him to set up such a light show. No
one would set up something like that because they like it...............
would they?


If I had the time, the talent, and the resources, you bet I would. That
light show rocks! I love christmas lights.

Bryan

I have been forbidden to put up any holiday lights around our house-
unless subject to immediate supervision. It has more to do with
unbreakable professional habit than with any religious or philosophical
issues.

The last time I strung the lights, (at a previous residence) I ran a
nice string from the corner of the house out to the top of a basketball
backboard on the edge of the road. From there, the lights did a
90-degree turn and ran into a tall tree on the corner of the yard, went
once around the tree and then formed a nice graceful belly on the
return leg to the eaves. I thought it was uniquely beautiful. All my
neighbors had highly disciplined light displays outlining the shapes of
their houses, and mine were suspended in mid air. Cool.

When the Mrs. came home, she was a bit P'd off. "All those colored
lights strung in the air makes the place look like a damn used car
lot!!"

My response, "What's wrong with that?", probably drove the final nail
into my unsupervised light stringing coffin.

Are these Jim's Xmas decorations?
 

On 5 Dec 2005 17:29:42 -0800, wrote:


Bryan wrote:
"John Gaquin" wrote in message
...

"Harry Krause" wrote in message
...

http://tinyurl.com/brcw7

There's just no end to bad taste.

What I really want to know is what all the immediate neighbors did to ****
off the subject homeowner, inducing him to set up such a light show. No
one would set up something like that because they like it...............
would they?


If I had the time, the talent, and the resources, you bet I would. That
light show rocks! I love christmas lights.

Bryan

I have been forbidden to put up any holiday lights around our house-
unless subject to immediate supervision. It has more to do with
unbreakable professional habit than with any religious or philosophical
issues.

The last time I strung the lights, (at a previous residence) I ran a
nice string from the corner of the house out to the top of a basketball
backboard on the edge of the road. From there, the lights did a
90-degree turn and ran into a tall tree on the corner of the yard, went
once around the tree and then formed a nice graceful belly on the
return leg to the eaves. I thought it was uniquely beautiful. All my
neighbors had highly disciplined light displays outlining the shapes of
their houses, and mine were suspended in mid air. Cool.

When the Mrs. came home, she was a bit P'd off. "All those colored
lights strung in the air makes the place look like a damn used car
lot!!"

My response, "What's wrong with that?", probably drove the final nail
into my unsupervised light stringing coffin.

You didn't say, but were these supposed to be Christmas decorations or something for President's
Day?

Are these Jim's Xmas decorations?// Xmas in Argentina
 

John H. wrote:
On 5 Dec 2005 17:29:42 -0800, wrote:


Bryan wrote:
"John Gaquin" wrote in message
...

"Harry Krause" wrote in message
...

http://tinyurl.com/brcw7

There's just no end to bad taste.

What I really want to know is what all the immediate neighbors did to ****
off the subject homeowner, inducing him to set up such a light show. No
one would set up something like that because they like it...............
would they?


If I had the time, the talent, and the resources, you bet I would. That
light show rocks! I love christmas lights.

Bryan

I have been forbidden to put up any holiday lights around our house-
unless subject to immediate supervision. It has more to do with
unbreakable professional habit than with any religious or philosophical
issues.

The last time I strung the lights, (at a previous residence) I ran a
nice string from the corner of the house out to the top of a basketball
backboard on the edge of the road. From there, the lights did a
90-degree turn and ran into a tall tree on the corner of the yard, went
once around the tree and then formed a nice graceful belly on the
return leg to the eaves. I thought it was uniquely beautiful. All my
neighbors had highly disciplined light displays outlining the shapes of
their houses, and mine were suspended in mid air. Cool.

When the Mrs. came home, she was a bit P'd off. "All those colored
lights strung in the air makes the place look like a damn used car
lot!!"

My response, "What's wrong with that?", probably drove the final nail
into my unsupervised light stringing coffin.

You didn't say, but were these supposed to be Christmas decorations or something for President's
Day?

I did say. Like all the colored lights and fires everywhere, going back
thousands of years, your lights and mine bring a bit of light and color
to the darkest days of the year in the northern hemisphere. I can't
find a single example in the Bible where anybody observed Christmas
(except the first one), and no mention at all about colored electric
lights. If you think the colored lights are a religious symbol, you
would still have to admit that they are much less so than (say), bread
and wine would be in the Christian tradition.

We flew home from Buenos Aires through New York, (where we laid over 9
hours and visited our daughter). The difference between the Christmas
decorations in NYC and Buenos Aires, at the exact same time of the
year, was staggering. NYC has Christmas stuff everywhere, but most of
the shops have no holiday decorations of any kind in Buenos Aires. We
didn't spend a lot of time in "shopping centers", but we did venture
into one on Florida Street and another in the Palmero district while we
were there.

The shopping centers, in this southern hemisphere city (where rubber
trees and Jacaranda prevail and summer is about to begin), were
decorated with phony snow, phony pine trees, and the PA systems were
playing Jingle Bells and other North American Christmas Songs,
(frequently in English, in a country where English is less commonly
used than some others). Santa Claus was a common sight, including his
sleigh with reindeer, and I don't know that there are any reindeer in
the southern hemisphere at all. It was right out of the twilight zone.

"Let's pretend the summer solstice is the winter solstice, that instead
of 80 degree weather the ground is covered with snow, and lets emulate
Northern European and North American customs rather than celebrate our
own." But, as I said, that was only in the shopping centers. Half a
block away from the disneyfied illusion of the shopping malls, there is
no great effort to put up anything holiday related.

Christmas is certainly a religious holiday in the US, particularly if
one acknowledges that consumerism is the prevailing faith in this
country and the shopping malls and WalMart stores are our temples.

Are these Jim's Xmas decorations?// Xmas in Argentina
 

On 6 Dec 2005 07:59:14 -0800, wrote:


John H. wrote:
On 5 Dec 2005 17:29:42 -0800, wrote:


Bryan wrote:
"John Gaquin" wrote in message
...

"Harry Krause" wrote in message
...

http://tinyurl.com/brcw7

There's just no end to bad taste.

What I really want to know is what all the immediate neighbors did to ****
off the subject homeowner, inducing him to set up such a light show. No
one would set up something like that because they like it...............
would they?


If I had the time, the talent, and the resources, you bet I would. That
light show rocks! I love christmas lights.

Bryan

I have been forbidden to put up any holiday lights around our house-
unless subject to immediate supervision. It has more to do with
unbreakable professional habit than with any religious or philosophical
issues.

The last time I strung the lights, (at a previous residence) I ran a
nice string from the corner of the house out to the top of a basketball
backboard on the edge of the road. From there, the lights did a
90-degree turn and ran into a tall tree on the corner of the yard, went
once around the tree and then formed a nice graceful belly on the
return leg to the eaves. I thought it was uniquely beautiful. All my
neighbors had highly disciplined light displays outlining the shapes of
their houses, and mine were suspended in mid air. Cool.

When the Mrs. came home, she was a bit P'd off. "All those colored
lights strung in the air makes the place look like a damn used car
lot!!"

My response, "What's wrong with that?", probably drove the final nail
into my unsupervised light stringing coffin.

You didn't say, but were these supposed to be Christmas decorations or something for President's
Day?

I did say.

I think you said 'holiday', and I was wondering which one.


Like all the colored lights and fires everywhere, going back
thousands of years, your lights and mine bring a bit of light and color
to the darkest days of the year in the northern hemisphere. I can't
find a single example in the Bible where anybody observed Christmas
(except the first one), and no mention at all about colored electric
lights. If you think the colored lights are a religious symbol, you
would still have to admit that they are much less so than (say), bread
and wine would be in the Christian tradition.

Maybe their generators ran out of gas.


We flew home from Buenos Aires through New York, (where we laid over 9
hours and visited our daughter). The difference between the Christmas
decorations in NYC and Buenos Aires, at the exact same time of the
year, was staggering. NYC has Christmas stuff everywhere, but most of
the shops have no holiday decorations of any kind in Buenos Aires. We
didn't spend a lot of time in "shopping centers", but we did venture
into one on Florida Street and another in the Palmero district while we
were there.


You should visit Europe. Lots of Christmas decorations everywhere. The Mexican folks that live down
the block have done a great job with their decorations. Maybe you were in a communist neighborhood.


The shopping centers, in this southern hemisphere city (where rubber
trees and Jacaranda prevail and summer is about to begin), were
decorated with phony snow, phony pine trees, and the PA systems were
playing Jingle Bells and other North American Christmas Songs,
(frequently in English, in a country where English is less commonly
used than some others). Santa Claus was a common sight, including his
sleigh with reindeer, and I don't know that there are any reindeer in
the southern hemisphere at all. It was right out of the twilight zone.

Santa's reindeer live at the North Pole. Everyone knows that.


"Let's pretend the summer solstice is the winter solstice, that instead
of 80 degree weather the ground is covered with snow, and lets emulate
Northern European and North American customs rather than celebrate our
own." But, as I said, that was only in the shopping centers. Half a
block away from the disneyfied illusion of the shopping malls, there is
no great effort to put up anything holiday related.

Christmas is certainly a religious holiday in the US, particularly if
one acknowledges that consumerism is the prevailing faith in this
country and the shopping malls and WalMart stores are our temples.

Gosh, why do Christians catch so much hell, if it's the consumerists that are the prevailing faith?

--
John H

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Wishing you Peace, Fellowship, and Good Humor as we celebrate the birth of OUR Lord, Jesus Christ on the Christmas Holy Day.