On Nov 15, 8:28�am, Gene Kearns
wrote:
On Thu, 15 Nov 2007 07:56:25 -0800 (PST), Chuck Gould penned the
following well considered thoughts to the readers of rec.boats:

SNIPS

|Just distracted with Bible study this morning. At last night's yacht
|club meeting several people referred to the upcoming lighted boat
|parade as a "Christmas" parade. I'm trying to figure out when burning
|colored light bulbs became a Christian sacrament.

Here is a (Baptist) Christian's view on the sin of celebrating the
Pagan �holiday of "Christmas."http://www.rapidnet.com/~jbeard/bdm/Psychology/xmas/celeb.htm

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And some folks have the nerve to suggest that *I'm* wordy? :-)

That's not an aritcle, that's a book.

On Thu, 15 Nov 2007 12:27:47 -0500, "Eisboch"
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"Chuck Gould" wrote in message
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Insisting that Santa say "Ha, ha, ha" instead of "Ho, ho, ho." is
pretty silly. But taking a firm stance that Santa has to utter the
sounds "ho, ho, ho" when laughing has to be somewhere nearly as silly.
Tempest in a teapot. If some of the women walking by the shopping mall
Santa are so ridiculously stupid to think they are being insulted when
they hear a fat old man cry out
"Ho, ho, ho." too fricking bad. Pop culture, or fear, should never
trump simple harmless fun.

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Of course it's silly.
It's not silly to a 4 or 5 year old kid though.

(It's also interesting that this originated in the land "down under" and not
the USA.)

Eisboch

p.s. I typed "land under" because I don't know how to spell Austriaela.

Substitute Oz. for Australia.

And it's shorter.

On Thu, 15 Nov 2007 09:53:32 -0800 (PST), wrote:

On Nov 15, 11:37 am, Short Wave Sportfishing
wrote:
On Thu, 15 Nov 2007 08:29:27 -0800 (PST), wrote:
On Nov 15, 10:17 am, Short Wave Sportfishing
wrote:
On Thu, 15 Nov 2007 08:58:11 -0500, "Eisboch"
wrote:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20071115...yleaustraliach...

Honest to pete.

Feakin' morons.

Yeah, don't they understand that fake nativity scenes, burning
incandesant lights, silver colored conifers, extravagant buying of
appliances and neckties are deeply rooted Christian values and must be
preserved?

I take it we're feeling better?

You seem to be getting back into form as time goes on. - Hide quoted text -

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The truth of the matter really bothers you, huh? What part do you find
offensive? Why?

Yep - definetly getting better.

Welcome back Bassy - you were missed.

Well, not really, but hey, anything to help the recovery.

For the record, nothing bothered me. I didn't find anything
offensive.

It was more like you and the style you use.