Well, Christ is in Christmas as far as I'm concerned! The Happy Holiday thing is something the talking heads on TV get started & idiots feel they must follow.

People can't think for themselves anymore it seems. I used to fly a lot (about 50,000mi per year!) & I would observe how people would line up at the gate, going across the room instead of turning so the lineup wouldn't interdere with the other gate or folks trying to find a seat. I've even turned so the lineup could go down the aisle & it didn't work.

Its kind of amusing to play games like that. Anyway, to counteract the happy holiday bit; I write Merry Christmas on my bills & even tell :Mgr: I have stopped patronizing your store....you won't get my Christmas money!

Where has our individualism gone? I'm a free thinker & thank God my kids are & grandkids, too!

Sheeeesh....all this frim a wheelchair; imagine if I had a soapbox!!

Marilyn

By the way, a very MERRY CHRISTMAS to you & yours!

Marilyn

Merry Christmas works for me. So does Happy Holidays. I always thought that 'Merry Christmas' refers to just to December 25th where 'Happy Holidays' refers to Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years plus a few other ethic holidays that have been thrown in the past decade. To me, it's the spirit of the season that count no matter what you call it.

Merry Christmas back at you, Fred!

Jean

marilyn

christmas was adapted from the celtic pagan holiday yule, which celebrates the winter solstice. most of the symbolism associated with christmas was adapted from pagan yule. Joshua of Nazareth (aka Jesus Christ)was most probably born in september. you can sell perry's blog 'christmas' and the comments made afterwards, including two sites that were linked by gary and myself, one wiccas and one christian, that basically say similar things concerning christmas. these events happened long before there was liberals, or conservatives, or Fox 5 News. therefore, i guess that the correct greeting for this holiday would be 'joyous yule', or something similar.

that being said, i would like to wish everybody a merry christmas, happy chanukah, happy boxing day, merry kwanzaa, a festive festivus, and a happy holiday season.

sandy

Happy Yuletide, y'all.

Hope your Xmas is bonzer, beaut and brings you heaps of pressies.

Hope 2007 is the best ever.

All who celebrate some other holiday, YEEEAAA to that too.

Bit hard to get impressed with drifting snow while we have temps over 100F but I'm doing my best here. Some Aussies even put artificial frosting on their windows. I guess that is because their ancestors came from England and Europe and there is a kind of nostalgia for the Christmases from that part of the world.

There wasn't a celebration among Aboriginal tribes for a festive season, only community gatherings, secret women's/men's business etc.

So everything Christmas celebrated here came with the settlers.

Of course now we are so multinational there are people who don't want us celebrating Christmas but to be fair what did they come here for if we were so contra to their culture?

Merry Christmas, Happy New Year.

Sue.

Merry Christmas or Happy Christmas......that is the question

Being from across the pond we dont get so much of happy holidays here. I think it could be a throw back from thanks giving. Which we obviously dont celebrate.

I have noticed that living in an "oil" city we do have a lot of Americans living here.House decorationsand lights come out for thanks giving and stay up.

merry christmas everyone.

mary