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Freep Poll (Christmas Trees or Holiday Trees)
County Press ^

Posted on 12/09/2005 12:08:31 PM PST by Tribune7

Should Christmas trees be called holiday trees?

No, they are Christmas trees.

Yes, the Nazis tried to replace Christmas with Wintersonnenwende and the Soviets tried with New Year. If foreign socialists can give it a shot so can American ones!!

Maybe, but if they do manage to steal Christmas what can they have the Grinch try to steal?

(Excerpt) Read more at countypressonline.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; Philosophy; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: christmastrees
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1 posted on 12/09/2005 12:08:31 PM PST by Tribune7
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To: Temple Owl

ping


2 posted on 12/09/2005 12:08:47 PM PST by Tribune7
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To: Tribune7

How about a festivas tree?

Waiting to see how long it takes for someone to get the reference...


3 posted on 12/09/2005 12:10:12 PM PST by conservativebabe
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To: Tribune7

How many religions use a pine tree as a symbol?


4 posted on 12/09/2005 12:10:24 PM PST by airborne (Al-Queda can recruit on college campuses but the US military can't!)
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To: Tribune7

i found the options quite funny....


5 posted on 12/09/2005 12:11:54 PM PST by Kidan (Tolerance is the virtue of a man without convictions - G.K. Chesterton)
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To: conservativebabe

It is a Festivus Pole.

Festivus for the rest of us.


6 posted on 12/09/2005 12:12:10 PM PST by WV Mountain Mama (I have a drink at night for my heart. Yeah, my heart, that's it.)
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To: Tribune7

With only 47 votes so far, Christmas trees are winning ;)


7 posted on 12/09/2005 12:13:42 PM PST by Bahbah (Free Scooter; Tony Schaffer for the US Senate)
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To: WV Mountain Mama

sorry for the misspelling-

Well done. Only 6 posts in.


8 posted on 12/09/2005 12:14:30 PM PST by conservativebabe
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To: Tribune7

9 posted on 12/09/2005 12:15:24 PM PST by petercooper (Win the war. Confirm the judges. Cut the taxes. Control the spending. Seal the borders.)
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To: WV Mountain Mama

The Festivus celebration includes four major components:

* The Festivus Pole: The Costanzas' tradition begins with a bare aluminum pole, which Frank praises for its "very high strength-to-weight ratio." During Festivus, an unadorned aluminum pole is displayed. The pole was chosen apparently in opposition to the commercialization of highly decorated Christmas trees, because it is "very low-maintenance," and also because the holiday's patron, Frank Costanza, "find[s] tinsel distracting."

* Festivus Dinner: The Festivus dinner menu is flexible, but it should be filling non-holiday comfort food (no turkey, duck, goose, or ham). The televised dinner featured what may have been meatloaf or spaghetti in a red sauce. (Presumably, an entree in a red sauce is more festive.)

* The Airing of Grievances: At the Festivus dinner, each participant tells friends and family all of the instances where they disappointed him or her that year.

* The Feats of Strength: The head of the family tests his or her strength against one participant of the head's choosing. Festivus is not considered over until the head of the family has been pinned to the ground. A participant is allowed to decline to attempt to pin the head of the family only if they have something better to do instead. Other, imaginative, Feats of Strength have been developed, including washer tossing.


We will be buying our Christmas tree this weekend. Our favorite thing to do is watch all the hippies try to dig their trees out of the frozen ground so they can replant it later. We then loudly fire up the chainsaw, cut our tree down and leave while they are taking water breaks, and trading off the shovel to their partner cause their back seized up. :) Good times!


10 posted on 12/09/2005 12:15:29 PM PST by WV Mountain Mama (I have a drink at night for my heart. Yeah, my heart, that's it.)
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To: conservativebabe

Why, thank you!


11 posted on 12/09/2005 12:16:10 PM PST by WV Mountain Mama (I have a drink at night for my heart. Yeah, my heart, that's it.)
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To: WV Mountain Mama

You are a real Seinfeld fan.


12 posted on 12/09/2005 12:16:29 PM PST by conservativebabe
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To: Tribune7
Festivus Poles!


13 posted on 12/09/2005 12:18:16 PM PST by Central Scrutiniser (Christmas is annoying, Happy Festivus)
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To: conservativebabe

Actually someone else did the leg work earlier today on a South Park thread. I just cut and pasted. I did enjoy that show though!


14 posted on 12/09/2005 12:18:19 PM PST by WV Mountain Mama (I have a drink at night for my heart. Yeah, my heart, that's it.)
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To: WV Mountain Mama

Oh, I would pay money to watch that! the libs, I mean


15 posted on 12/09/2005 12:18:37 PM PST by conservativebabe
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To: WV Mountain Mama

Could you point me to that thread?-sounds like a good read


16 posted on 12/09/2005 12:20:18 PM PST by conservativebabe
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To: conservativebabe

Here ya go!

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1537038/posts


17 posted on 12/09/2005 12:23:06 PM PST by WV Mountain Mama (I have a drink at night for my heart. Yeah, my heart, that's it.)
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To: WV Mountain Mama

Thank you! :)


18 posted on 12/09/2005 12:33:35 PM PST by conservativebabe
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To: Tribune7

NEVER in my life have i even heard of a HOLIDAY tree...

time to give crap like this a rest


19 posted on 12/09/2005 12:34:40 PM PST by kajingawd (" happy with stone underhead, let Heaven and Earth go about their changes")
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To: Kidan

I had to go with option 2, coundn't be passed up.


20 posted on 12/09/2005 1:09:32 PM PST by conservativewasp (Liberals lie for sport and hate our country.)
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