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I think it's best we separate into our two camps now. I shouldn't crash your I hate everything joyous and fun threads with my posts about loving eggnog and Nat King Cole.  

It is always fascinating to see a surprise forumite in either of the camps. 

This thread will, hopefully,  include the absolutely fabulous @team scooter poodles, train, Christmas video which by itself is worth gold. 

My friend @Randomguy will be in charge of the other team's thread. You will find him to a very kind and gracious host so please go there to share your yuletide disdain.  

Note: Team Christmas apparently does not have an official pie maker since @Old No. 7 has gone dark. Petite will be our interm pie maker until a suitable substitute full of Christmas joy can be found.

Seasons Greetings, 

SamWithCheese 

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28 minutes ago, denniS said:

I love some good egg nog. Nat is simply elegant. 

This year's tree. The youngest said go big or go home. His mom said it's too tall. He was right. He had to drag out the ladder to decorate it.

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This is the kind of awesomeness that I hope sways @Road Runner to be firmly planted with Team Christmas.  :nodhead:

Hopefully this helps too.  :slow-dance-smiley:

 

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23 minutes ago, Airehead said:

I generally send valentines cards instead of Christmas. 

I will need both and Easter, thank you.  :)

4 minutes ago, bikeman564™ said:

cheese's team Christmas all  the way :skipping:perhaps Debbie will stop by and play some lovely Christmas tunes on the piano :loveshower:

We have King Bikeman564!   :slow-dance-smiley:

Take that RG and your ridiculous anti red kettle bells.    

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8 hours ago, SamWithCheese said:

My friend @Randomguy will be in charge of the other team's thread. You will find him to a very kind and gracious host so please go there to share your yuletide disdain.  

WRONG!  You are taking one piece of information, which is I despise those bellringers with a white-hot raging hatred, and confusing it with other ideas that have no merit at all.  I realize that unfounded generalizations are what southern people are best at, so you are forgiven.*****  I will still be forced to give you the stinkeye for several posts, though.

I like Christmas, generally, even though it is half-voodoo and half out of control commercialism and half "Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer", but it is still the best holiday.  It isn't like a Thanksgiving, which lasts for a day, Christmas lasts for a while and is a whole season almost.  Nobody goes and visits for just the day, you get to hangout for an extended time and eat Christmas cookies for weeks and everything is quasifestive at least.  Oktoberfest is the only holiday that can compete with Christmas for fun and merriment, but non-drinkers are a drag to hang out with during Oktoberfest.  Anyway, RO is into Christmas, and even though I don't succumb and go along with the simpleminded Santa lie foisted on impressionable minds, I make sure she has fun and nothing but fun during the season.

8 hours ago, SamWithCheese said:

Seasons Greetings, 

Why do you hate America?

 

 

****see what I did there?  heh heh...

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3 hours ago, SamWithCheese said:

I like you Donkpow but I have seen you associating more with Team Facebook.  There are no stockings,  no snow, no Perry Como in your video.  

Rejected but thank you.  

Well, I made a video a few years ago. I'll put it up but not just for you. More to keep others off my back.

 

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2 hours ago, Randomguy said:

It isn't like a Thanksgiving, which lasts for a day, Christmas lasts for a while and is a whole season almost. 

Yeah - if it was just one day, it wouldn't be enough to keep folks moving during winter. Luckily, if you play it right, the whole second half of December is down time at work with folks taking off and generally pushing anything tough into the new year.  It is timed to boost the dreariest time of the year.  It is also fun for kids.

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27 minutes ago, Wilbur said:

I suspect the bellringers donations may plummet this year.  :( 

They are even having a hard time getting the volunteers to ring the bell.  :(

Because of all the challenges,  I was thinking each location should have a bunch of puppies to help entice.  

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4 minutes ago, SamWithCheese said:

They are even having a hard time getting the volunteers to ring the bell.  :(

Because of all the challenges,  I was thinking each location should have a bunch of puppies to help entice.  

Why not just have puppies and no bells?  They wouldn't be such jerks that way.

Seriously, just set a puppy down by a donation bowl and more people than ever before would pay attention rather than just trying to get as far away as possible from that horrid racket.

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10 minutes ago, SamWithCheese said:

They are even having a hard time getting the volunteers to ring the bell.  :(

Because of all the challenges,  I was thinking each location should have a bunch of puppies to help entice.  

Puppies..yup..one of our swank grocery stores had a doggie with the bell ringer...I called him out for trying to sweet talk us into donations. 

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13 minutes ago, petitepedal said:

Puppies..yup..one of our swank grocery stores had a doggie with the bell ringer...I called him out for trying to sweet talk us into donations. 

Normal folks will stop to pet a cute pup.  A dude in a Santa suit???? Stranger danger!!!

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37 minutes ago, Randomguy said:

Why not just have puppies and no bells?  They wouldn't be such jerks that way.

Seriously, just set a puppy down by a donation bowl and more people than ever before would pay attention rather than just trying to get as far away as possible from that horrid racket.

Please give it a rest?  :dontknow:

30 minutes ago, petitepedal said:

Puppies..yup..one of our swank grocery stores had a doggie with the bell ringer...I called him out for trying to sweet talk us into donations. 

Called him out in what way?  Politely yelled at him for busting chops as you put a $20.00 in the kettle?   :)

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15 minutes ago, SamWithCheese said:

@Old No. 7, is there ANY way we could win you over?  :dontknow:

Petite said no dice on pies so we need you, please.  

Perhaps. Let me think it over. I could visit Ambrosia and Jeff and see my lovely pseudo-grand baby and use their oven. But then I’d have to make them a pie as well. D362DC67-AA82-4517-8392-0B9E01571AA5.thumb.jpeg.b42698c4eef347bb1e1e60fa0831b6a1.jpeg

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1 minute ago, Randomguy said:

You brought me in this one with innuendo and slander in the first post!  

I don't think so. Your thread even has more support. I have actually grown fond of your yearly anti-kettle bell rants. 

Tradition like chestnuts roasting on an open fire but doesn't necessarily have to be shared in this thread, no?   

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8 minutes ago, Old No. 7 said:

Perhaps. Let me think it over. I could visit Ambrosia and Jeff and see my lovely pseudo-grand baby and use their oven. But then I’d have to make them a pie as well. D362DC67-AA82-4517-8392-0B9E01571AA5.thumb.jpeg.b42698c4eef347bb1e1e60fa0831b6a1.jpeg

I'm close to marking this as Solution but need to be strong and holdout for pie 

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Just now, Randomguy said:

Ok, but you implied I was anti-Christmas based on the rants.  Plus, you showed no appreciation for my ironic generalization about generalizations.

I really didn't mean to but you might be correct, not my intention.  Although your anti bell rants are insane. 

I still think you should be Team Facebook, or Team Amazon.  

UPS is the only Official Delivery Service of Team Christmas.  

May I have permission to post a completely off the wall video in your thread?  It's horrid but it's fascinating film. You might appreciate the acting but it's truly horrid. 

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34 minutes ago, SamWithCheese said:

I really didn't mean to but you might be correct, not my intention.  Although your anti bell rants are insane. 

I still think you should be Team Facebook, or Team Amazon.  

UPS is the only Official Delivery Service of Team Christmas.  

May I have permission to post a completely off the wall video in your thread?  It's horrid but it's fascinating film. You might appreciate the acting but it's truly horrid. 

I don't want to be a part of the establishment, they are all bastards in one form or another, except the puppies. 

I love off the wall videos, you have my perpetual permission to post in all my threads and everyone else's!  The more horrid-er the better.

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1 hour ago, SamWithCheese said:

Both threads should be pinned. The love Christmas thread is losing which is a shame but again choice is fair and good. 

Probably because the pro-Christmas posters are busy baking delicious cookies, wrapping presents, writing cards and watching Hallmark movies!

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Just now, Kirby said:

Probably because the pro-Christmas posters are busy baking delicious cookies, wrapping presents, writing cards and watching Hallmark movies!

It would be nice to hear from some of the other holiday lovers and what holidays are their favorites.  I'm a big fan of most, as it's a paid day off.  Halloween, while I love the candy, is fairly low on my list compared to the ones in the late spring or in the summer, since those give real "bang" for the day off buck!  Early fall ones are good too.

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