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Political correctness at work
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Political correctness at work
"Eisboch" wrote in message ... http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20071115...ristmasoffbeat Eisboch An effective response to any silly actions that errode Christmas traditions might be to boycott stores the Christmas period. If enough people did that for one year.... the business community would make sure things straightened out. |
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On Nov 15, 6:27�am, "Don White" wrote:
"Eisboch" wrote in message ...http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20071115...yleaustraliach... Eisboch An effective response to any silly actions that errode Christmas traditions might be to boycott stores the Christmas period. �If enough people did that for one year.... the business community would make sure things straightened out. Good luck with that. The first thing you would have to sort out would be agreeing upon which particular version of the Christmas celebration you wanted to preserve. |
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On Thu, 15 Nov 2007 08:58:11 -0500, "Eisboch"
wrote: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20071115...ristmasoffbeat Honest to pete. Feakin' morons. |
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On Thu, 15 Nov 2007 07:11:27 -0800 (PST), Chuck Gould
wrote: On Nov 15, 6:27?am, "Don White" wrote: "Eisboch" wrote in message ...http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20071115...yleaustraliach... Eisboch An effective response to any silly actions that errode Christmas traditions might be to boycott stores the Christmas period. ?If enough people did that for one year.... the business community would make sure things straightened out. Good luck with that. The first thing you would have to sort out would be agreeing upon which particular version of the Christmas celebration you wanted to preserve. WHAT?!?!? No three thousand word tome on various forms of celebrations and the history behind them? You are slipping Chuck. :) |
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"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message ... On Thu, 15 Nov 2007 07:11:27 -0800 (PST), Chuck Gould wrote: On Nov 15, 6:27?am, "Don White" wrote: "Eisboch" wrote in message ...http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20071115...yleaustraliach... Eisboch An effective response to any silly actions that errode Christmas traditions might be to boycott stores the Christmas period. ?If enough people did that for one year.... the business community would make sure things straightened out. Good luck with that. The first thing you would have to sort out would be agreeing upon which particular version of the Christmas celebration you wanted to preserve. WHAT?!?!? No three thousand word tome on various forms of celebrations and the history behind them? You are slipping Chuck. :) Naw... we have a gentleman's agreement.. |
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On Nov 15, 7:20�am, Short Wave Sportfishing
wrote: On Thu, 15 Nov 2007 07:11:27 -0800 (PST), Chuck Gould wrote: On Nov 15, 6:27?am, "Don White" wrote: "Eisboch" wrote in message om...http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20071115...yleaustraliach... Eisboch An effective response to any silly actions that errode Christmas traditions might be to boycott stores the Christmas period. ?If enough people did that for one year.... the business community would make sure things straightened out. Good luck with that. The first thing you would have to sort out would be agreeing upon which particular version of the Christmas celebration you wanted to preserve. WHAT?!?!? No three thousand word tome on various forms of celebrations and the history behind them? You are slipping Chuck. �:)- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - 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. If I have no luck with either of the two books in the New Testament that even mention a miraculous and virgin birth for Jesus, I'll slide over to the Old Testament and check out Numbers, Judges, and The Ten Commandments. That becomes a bit awkward of course, because if in the Old Testament I encounter "Though shalt tack strings of colored lights to the eaves of thy dwelling, even unto mounting a wire framed reindeer with blinking nose on the peak of thy house," that will make the whole affair more Jewish than Christian, right? Worse yet, nearly all of the Old Testament is considered holy writ by Muslims- who worship the God of Abraham but believe the *final* prophet was Muhammed rather than Jesus. Let's hope I don't find a commandment to dress up in a red suit, pass out toys, and belly laugh non-stop from December 15- December 24 in the Old Testament; venerated by Christians, Jews, and (oh no!) Muslims,....Homeland Security will want to start passing all the shopping mall Santas through metal detectors before they let them hold kids on their laps. I mean for gosh sakes, here's a guy who won't be seen in public without a head covering, wears a beard, and (worse yet) dresses in a flowing robe! Good thing the old gent flies with reindeer, he'd be "profiled" for sure at an airport. A simple background check for sexual deviancy involving underage kids should be sufficient, I would think. :-) Just over two weeks until the Seafair Holiday Lighted Boat Parade/ Special Peoples' Cruise hereabouts. I suspect that event is a bit closer to what Christmas should be about than all the Chevy Chase tract house light shows and compulsive overspending at shopping malls could ever hope to approach. At least in my opinion......others will, and certainly should, hold opinions of their own. |
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On Thu, 15 Nov 2007 07:56:25 -0800 (PST), Chuck Gould
wrote: On Nov 15, 7:20?am, Short Wave Sportfishing wrote: On Thu, 15 Nov 2007 07:11:27 -0800 (PST), Chuck Gould wrote: On Nov 15, 6:27?am, "Don White" wrote: "Eisboch" wrote in message om...http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20071115...yleaustraliach... Eisboch An effective response to any silly actions that errode Christmas traditions might be to boycott stores the Christmas period. ?If enough people did that for one year.... the business community would make sure things straightened out. Good luck with that. The first thing you would have to sort out would be agreeing upon which particular version of the Christmas celebration you wanted to preserve. WHAT?!?!? No three thousand word tome on various forms of celebrations and the history behind them? You are slipping Chuck. ?:)- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - 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. If I have no luck with either of the two books in the New Testament that even mention a miraculous and virgin birth for Jesus, I'll slide over to the Old Testament and check out Numbers, Judges, and The Ten Commandments. That becomes a bit awkward of course, because if in the Old Testament I encounter "Though shalt tack strings of colored lights to the eaves of thy dwelling, even unto mounting a wire framed reindeer with blinking nose on the peak of thy house," that will make the whole affair more Jewish than Christian, right? Worse yet, nearly all of the Old Testament is considered holy writ by Muslims- who worship the God of Abraham but believe the *final* prophet was Muhammed rather than Jesus. Let's hope I don't find a commandment to dress up in a red suit, pass out toys, and belly laugh non-stop from December 15- December 24 in the Old Testament; venerated by Christians, Jews, and (oh no!) Muslims,....Homeland Security will want to start passing all the shopping mall Santas through metal detectors before they let them hold kids on their laps. I mean for gosh sakes, here's a guy who won't be seen in public without a head covering, wears a beard, and (worse yet) dresses in a flowing robe! Good thing the old gent flies with reindeer, he'd be "profiled" for sure at an airport. A simple background check for sexual deviancy involving underage kids should be sufficient, I would think. :-) Just over two weeks until the Seafair Holiday Lighted Boat Parade/ Special Peoples' Cruise hereabouts. I suspect that event is a bit closer to what Christmas should be about than all the Chevy Chase tract house light shows and compulsive overspending at shopping malls could ever hope to approach. At least in my opinion......others will, and certainly should, hold opinions of their own. Whew - you had me worried there for a minute. :) |
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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/...xmas/celeb.htm -- Grady-White Gulfstream, out of Oak Island, NC. Homepage http://pamandgene.idleplay.net/ Rec.boats at Lee Yeaton's Bayguide http://www.thebayguide.com/rec.boats ----------------- www.Newsgroup-Binaries.com - *Completion*Retention*Speed* Access your favorite newsgroups from home or on the road ----------------- |
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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? |
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"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message ... On Thu, 15 Nov 2007 07:56:25 -0800 (PST), Chuck Gould wrote: WHAT?!?!? No three thousand word tome on various forms of celebrations and the history behind them? You are slipping Chuck. ?:)- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Just distracted with Bible study this morning. At last night's yacht club meeting several people referred to the upcoming lighted boat rest snipped for brevity Whew - you had me worried there for a minute. :) Chuck doesn't stay finger-tied for long. Eisboch |
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wrote in message ... 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? What, pray tell, does that have to do Santa Clause being required to say "Ha, Ha, Ha" instead of "Ho, Ho, Ho"? hummmm????? Eisboch |
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On Thu, 15 Nov 2007 11:28:29 -0500, 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/...xmas/celeb.htm Some people just need to get a life. Always somebody who just has to **** in the potted plant at a party. |
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On Thu, 15 Nov 2007 11:34:56 -0500, "Eisboch"
wrote: "Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message .. . On Thu, 15 Nov 2007 07:56:25 -0800 (PST), Chuck Gould wrote: WHAT?!?!? No three thousand word tome on various forms of celebrations and the history behind them? You are slipping Chuck. ?:) Just distracted with Bible study this morning. At last night's yacht club meeting several people referred to the upcoming lighted boat rest snipped for brevity Whew - you had me worried there for a minute. :) Chuck doesn't stay finger-tied for long. If he's anything like me, it takes a half hour in the morning before I can even move my fingers enough to type. :) |
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Eisboch wrote:
wrote in message ... 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? What, pray tell, does that have to do Santa Clause being required to say "Ha, Ha, Ha" instead of "Ho, Ho, Ho"? hummmm????? Eisboch Since you didn't actually graduate from Amity Regional, I suppose it is ok to let pass your misspelling of Claus. Ho ho ho. |
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"HK" wrote in message . .. Eisboch wrote: What, pray tell, does that have to do Santa Clause being required to say "Ha, Ha, Ha" instead of "Ho, Ho, Ho"? hummmm????? Eisboch Since you didn't actually graduate from Amity Regional, I suppose it is ok to let pass your misspelling of Claus. Ho ho ho. I know. Without a spell check, I am screwed. I use a little Averatec computer on the boat and it doesn't have Microsoft Word installed. Outlook Express relies on Word for the spell check feature, so ... I try to check words I am not sure of, but some of my spelling and gramatical errors slip through. My apologies. Eisboch |
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Eisboch wrote:
"HK" wrote in message . .. Eisboch wrote: What, pray tell, does that have to do Santa Clause being required to say "Ha, Ha, Ha" instead of "Ho, Ho, Ho"? hummmm????? Eisboch Since you didn't actually graduate from Amity Regional, I suppose it is ok to let pass your misspelling of Claus. Ho ho ho. I know. Without a spell check, I am screwed. I use a little Averatec computer on the boat and it doesn't have Microsoft Word installed. Outlook Express relies on Word for the spell check feature, so ... I try to check words I am not sure of, but some of my spelling and gramatical errors slip through. My apologies. Eisboch Not to worry. We have posters that would have spelled it Claws. |
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On Thu, 15 Nov 2007 11:44:29 -0500, "Eisboch"
wrote: I know. Without a spell check, I am screwed. I use a little Averatec computer on the boat and it doesn't have Microsoft Word installed. Outlook Express relies on Word for the spell check feature, so ... The real mischief with spell checkers arises when a typo or mistake turns into another word spelled correctly. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clause |
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"Wayne.B" wrote in message ... On Thu, 15 Nov 2007 11:44:29 -0500, "Eisboch" wrote: I know. Without a spell check, I am screwed. I use a little Averatec computer on the boat and it doesn't have Microsoft Word installed. Outlook Express relies on Word for the spell check feature, so ... The real mischief with spell checkers arises when a typo or mistake turns into another word spelled correctly. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clause Nobody could create a spell checker that would save me. Grammer and spelling were never my strong suits. Most of the writing I did was in technical reports or proposals and nobody that read them noticed or cared much. In engineering, if a word doesn't exist to describe or explain something, you just invent one. Eisboch |
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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 -- Grady-White Gulfstream, out of Oak Island, NC. Homepagehttp://pamandgene.idleplay.net/� � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � Rec.boats at Lee Yeaton's Bayguidehttp://www.thebayguide.com/rec.boats� � � � � � � � � � � � � � � -----------------www.Newsgroup-Binaries.com- *Completion*Retention*Speed* Access your favorite newsgroups from home or on the road ----------------- And some folks have the nerve to suggest that *I'm* wordy? :-) That's not an aritcle, that's a book. |
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On Thu, 15 Nov 2007 12:27:47 -0500, "Eisboch"
wrote: "Chuck Gould" wrote in message ... 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. ---------------------------- 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. |
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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 - - Show quoted text - 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. |
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