May we suggest heeding National Council of Churches' Rev. Bob Edgar: "I think it's more important to put Christ back into our war planning than into our Christmas cards."
RIGHT!?!?!??!????
Fred: Oh my God! Angel, you're…cute! Angel: Fred, don't! Fred: Oh, but the little hands! And the hair! Angel: Hey! You're fired.
'Smile Time'
Spike's Bitches 27: I'm Embarrassed for Our Kind.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Nora Deirdre - Dec 07, 2005 7:32:30 am PST #8308 of 10003
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
tommyrot - Dec 07, 2005 7:36:08 am PST #8309 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Jesus could be a Special Forces guy who sneaks into insurgent's camps and changes their water to wine, resulting in the insurgent being wasted.
Connie Neil - Dec 07, 2005 7:37:19 am PST #8310 of 10003
brillig
Voldemort?
Damn, beaten to the punch.
Steph L. - Dec 07, 2005 7:40:25 am PST #8311 of 10003
I look more rad than Lutheranism
To equate the importance of Christmas with Hanukkah or Kwanzaa makes absolutely no sense to me.
Wow. And the thing is, the dude who said this? Very likely has NO idea how insulting it is.
Every once in a while, I worry that the message I feel of "if you're not a Christian you aren't part of our culture" at this time of year is just me being paranoid and oversensitive. So nice to be reassured on that front.
If "you people" want to feel a part of "our culture," you should damn well start by buying lots of gifts for us.
But not from Target.
SuziQ - Dec 07, 2005 7:45:10 am PST #8312 of 10003
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
I just did my job as a consumer and bought K-Bug an iPod. I was going to go through Amazon, but they are "backordered" and it wouldn't be sent until January. Going through Apple, I get it in a week with free shipping. I'm having "Princess K-Bug Rocks" etched on it (but with her real name, duh).
DebetEsse - Dec 07, 2005 7:45:26 am PST #8313 of 10003
Woe to the fucking wicked.
Well, Christmas is, what, second on the list for Christianity? Maybe third? The thing that's always talked about, IME, is that the reason we know about Hanukkah is that it's around Christmas time, not because it's a big!huge!Jewish!holiday! I can't speak to Kwanzaa as much. That's how I read it, trying to be charitable. It's likely I'm being too charitable.
Jessica - Dec 07, 2005 7:45:37 am PST #8314 of 10003
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Wow. And the thing is, the dude who said this? Very likely has NO idea how insulting it is.
I can't speak for Kwanzaa, but Hannukah is a minor Jewish holiday whose importance has been inflated in America because its enough like Christmas (happens in winter + gifts) to be conflated into the same shopping frenzy. So for me, that was actually the only *non*-insulting thing in there.
Of course, that's in a religous sense. In a commercial sense, Hannukah is WAY more important because we have gifts for 8 days instead of 1.
Calli - Dec 07, 2005 7:45:45 am PST #8315 of 10003
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
What does Target think people are buying? They're buying Christmas gifts, not holiday gifts.
I am a person. And I am not buying Christmas gifts, I'm buying holiday gifts. Most of which will go to Christians, but still.
I'm getting pretty sick of being told I'm not a person.
Gris - Dec 07, 2005 7:48:43 am PST #8316 of 10003
Hey. New board.
happens in winter + gifts
Weren't even the gifts a somewhat recent addition to the Hannukah celebration, added in for this very reason?
Amy - Dec 07, 2005 7:49:31 am PST #8317 of 10003
Because books.
I didn't know much about Kwanzaa, so I Googled it.