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'Happy Holidays!"

Marquis de Carabas said:
I find "Happy Holidays" to be extremely offensive since I consider no day holy, so all of you bastards wishing me anything can just bugger right off.
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Marquis, have a hell of a Saturnalia! I really mean that. By the way, the hat can stay, but get your ass out of here.
 
-Fran- said:
Here we say 'God Jul' which would loosely translate to "Have a good yule tide" so there's no Christian based word in the greeting to fight against.. I guess :)

ETA:
For more info:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yule

It's pretty easy here to totally forget that Jul (Christmas) has anything to do with Jesus, especially these days. I've never had a problem celebrating Jul as an outspoken atheist.
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I'm also glad to live in a country where we still call it jul/yule, and not Christ Mass.
 
At my work - they don't have Christmas parties anymore, they have Holiday Parties. I know someone who is greatly pissed off by this. "It's Christmas! We should say Merry Christmas!"
 
Our local Target stores are carrying some cool 'Halloween village' sets that seem to be made by the same company as the Christmas village sets. I am excited about the possibility of placing matching haunted pubs and pirate ships under the tree along with Rudolph's stables and Jesus's manger.
 
Office Christmas/Holiday cards time now too - they're all coming out with no mention of anything, a darn waste of time. At least they don't have a kiddie Santa drawing on them.
 
ksbluesfan said:
Last year's war on Christmas was a personal failure. This year, I declare war on Ramadan! No fasting for me. Woe to the first person who wishes me a "Rami Ramadan"!
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Ramadamned if you do, Ramadamned if you don't :(
 
When someone I don't know (such as a store clerk) makes a presumption by wishing me a "Merry Christmas!", I usually put them in place with a cheery "And Happy Hannukah to you!".

It's cool. I mean it, it's heartfelt, and yet it usually takes them aback for a moment.

Some even try to apologize. That's the funniest.
 
A few years ago I started wishing people "Merry Walrus". Either people hear what they expect to hear, or else they are too timid to ask for clarification, because absolutely nobody has ever remarked upon or questioned it. I don't think I have a speech impediment. Perhaps my natural air of dignity prevents them from challenging me.
 
Thanks for reminding me. I have to prepare my annual holiday card. I make my own "Merry Winter Solstice!" cards and send them out to anyone who sends me a holiday card. Mine have a few astronomical diagrams that explain the Solstice and Perihelion. The text inside this year will read:

The Earth’s axis is inclined at a fixed angle of 23.5 degrees from perpendicular to the orbital plane. This results in annual changes in the height of the Sun above the horizon and is the cause of the change of seasons. In 2007, the Winter Solstice will occur on December 22, at 1:08 AM EST. The Sun will reach it’s southern-most point of the sky. This will result in the day with the shortest period of sunlight. Early humans who observed this phenomena celebrated the winter solstice as a time of renewal and rebirth because after this date, the days would slowly become longer.

Perihelion will occur on January 2, 2008 at about 7:00 PM EST. This is the time when the Earth is closest to the Sun in it’s elliptical orbit. Early humans had no way of observing this, so there are no primitive holidays associated with it. It’s proximity to the Gregorian New Year is purely coincidental.

We hope that you enjoy these celestial occasions as much as we do.

Have a Merry Winter Solstice and a Happy Perihelion!
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Here's a link to the US Naval Observatory website that lists the date and time of every solstice, equinox, perihelion and aphelion up to 2020.
http://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/docs/EarthSeasons.php
 
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Damn you people, we're still two weeks away from Halloween! It's too early to talk about Christmas.

/I usually wait until there is lasting snow.
 
Temporal Renegade said:
What I'm mainly wondering is, how many people are going to try and proclaim "Happy Holidays" to the myriad throngs that will assail you this year? You know, the ones who merrily proclaim "Merry Christmas!" to *everyone* they meet, and expect the same in return?
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Whenever someone wishes me a Merry Christmas, I usually respond, "I don't celebrate Christmas, but I hope you have a Merry Christmas." This worked until the Indian woman at the Subway wished my a Merry Christmas and I stood there dumbfounded, knowing that neither of us gave one damn about any Christmas, merry or otherwise.
 
I prefere the non-commital and somewhat condesending "Happy Whatever" greeting.
Quickly followed by, under my breath, "you sum-a-na-botching, cork sucking, icehole, bastages".


It makes me happy all holiday season long.
 
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Jorghnassen said:
Damn you people, we're still two weeks away from Halloween! It's too early to talk about Christmas.

/I usually wait until there is lasting snow.
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Then why does Wal-mart have the Christmass decoration up already?

Does anyone live in an area where thier local mega-mart dispalys Menorahs or whatever Quanza displays on the holiday season?
 
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