Down here in the slums.. Yea the black hood.. [img]graemlins/hehe.gif[/img]
Anyways, it seems as soon as Halloween came and went everyone within a 100-mile radius has suddenly skipped past Thanksgiving and gone straight to preparing for Christmas. What is with these people, don't they deem it necessary to give thanks!?

Jeesh, by this time next year they may have already celebrated it..

Speaking of which what are you buying me for christmas Nano? Beer will do just fine!

Um, I may be wrong here, but doesn't thanksgiving come before halloween? :confused:

[ 11-18-2002, 10:24 PM: Message edited by: Jeffi0 ]

Actually, I was going for an arm nozzle that you lube up with some Sam Adams and fill to the brim with uh, the good stuff. :D

i will buy you a case LOA :D

i will buy you a case LOA :D </font>[/QUOTE]What!? You can't even vote BP! (neither can I, but that isn't the issue) [img]tongue.gif[/img]

[ 11-18-2002, 10:29 PM: Message edited by: Nanobyte ]

Lol Nanobyte. Yes some people have actually already put up Christmas lights. We're still planning Thanksgiving dinner like *normal* people. And as usual Christmas shopping will be done at the last possible minute. :rolleyes:

[ 11-18-2002, 10:37 PM: Message edited by: Redblueflare ]

I picked up some aspirin about a fortnight ago. It was already Christmas at Rite-Aid, so I got far more pills than I expected. I got some strange looks on campus afterwards, I can tell you.

Not in America, Halloween is October 31st, Thanksgiving is the last Thursday in November.

i will buy you a case LOA :D </font>[/QUOTE]What!? You can't even vote BP! (neither can I, but that isn't the issue) [img]tongue.gif[/img] </font>[/QUOTE]i got friends man i got friends :D :D

besides i wasn't being serious [img]tongue.gif[/img] but thats not the issue [img]tongue.gif[/img]

[ 11-18-2002, 10:48 PM: Message edited by: Blind_Prophet ]

Apparently the very second we're done giving thanks we start wanting more and more to be thankfull next year around! theres a whole 363 days ahead of us for WANTING the second that day rolls around... and apparnetly some people are boycotting it, while others are doing it EARLY this year O_O and wheres the halway mark? it simply doesnt exist...

I spent the day unloading Christmas trees. Tomorrow we will begin flocking trees. For those of you who actually get Winter and have no clue what a flocked tree is: Flocking is a cellulose based product that is sprayed onto trees to simulate snow. It acts as a fire retardent and preservative and makes the tree all "snowy white" unless somebody puts dye into the mix and then you get pink or blue Christmas trees.

BLUE CHRISTMAS TREES!!!!

If you think that is bad one of the managers demonstrated a blue tree with air brush and stencil to make star of David.....Instant Hannukka Tree. My personal favorite was an orange tree with air brushed yellow stripes.

My personal fave was the edible version. Spruce it up for the holidays, then eat it when the day finally arrives :D

We had one of those once, it was prety ;)

ohh what I would give for real snow.

People down here are so freaked out about frozen rain, hail, and snow that they immediately close all schools and businesses. I don't even think they know what boots are.. [img]graemlins/director.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/idontwanna.gif[/img]

I actually wanted to write a post like this yesterday. :D
It's really weird how Christmas seems to come earlier every year. Shops started decorating already a week or even more ago. And it's not even December... There's a month and a half to go till Christmas! I really don't understand why they have to start so early... Okay in the begining of December, but begining of November?! That's just crazy! Every time I go to the shops I see all of that and get nervous because I think I need to shop and that I'm already too late... The only thing this has done to me is that I am already sick of Christmas! [img]tongue.gif[/img]
Is anybody else annoyed by all these early decorations? [img]tongue.gif[/img] [img]smile.gif[/img]

Not in America, Halloween is October 31st, Thanksgiving is the last Thursday in November.</font>[/QUOTE]And in Canada thanksgiving is "celebrated" on the 2nd Monday in October although we´re not celebrating the same things. But let´s not get lost in semantics.

BTW LoA how many cases of Royal C should I be sending you for christmas? :D

Striped Christmas trees? [img]graemlins/wow.gif[/img]

I have a nice 5ft fir, artificial and so much easier to take care of! That, and my cat can climb it, knock it over and chew on it and the worst I've had to do is put a few branches back in their little sockets and re-hang an unbreakable ornament! [img]smile.gif[/img]

Well, we put up our Christmas lights, but that's because we're taking vacation Dec. 13-25 and we wanted at least 1 mo. with the lights.

I think Thanksgiving has become the vacation centered around the world's busiest shopping day (Fri. following Turkey Day) as much as anything.

Oh, and I saw a national buy nothing day thread here a while back. Let me encourage everyone to ignore that, and buy what you can. Lord knows our economy needs it.

Sorry, Timber, I know I'm a subversive cuss, but I refuse to frequent malls or other shopping venues unless absolutely necessary from mid-November to the beginning of January. I buy a few small gifts for my family (which is very small now), and I've already gotten my wife's gift long ago, but other than that, I steer clear of any of the "mauls" as I call them at this time of year. It's probably also why I don't hate the holidays, since I try to keep them as stress-free as possible.

Thank the heavens we have no small children, for if I were faced with the prospect of braving "Rampages-R-Us", I would just as soon take a revolver to my temple and put myself out of my misery. That and Chuck E. Cheese are two very important and vital reasons why my wife and I do NOT have kids, and do not plan to do so in the forseeable future, unless someone were to perform a forced frontal lobotomy on me.

-Sazerac

I agree that people get a little crazy with the shopping so early. But I do like to get mine done before DEC just so I do not have to go into the malls after DEC. So I may be guilty for bring x-mas so early. This year is a little more special for me and my wife since we have a new baby she wil be 7 months. Even though we will buy her gifts and wrap them up. She will be happy chewing on the paper. [img]graemlins/hehe.gif[/img]