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Tag: "Christmas"

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Welcome to our store! . . . sort of . . .

Welcome to our store! . . . sort of . . .

Customers of this Dollar Tree store in St. Louis are greeted with the following signs located on the main entry door:

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Here’s how I interpret the above: Welcome, honored guests, but it you rip us off, we’ll throw your ass in the slammer before you can even utter “Merry Christmas.”

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What’s it like to get a Nintendo Wii for Christmas?

***PLEASE don’t show this video to my children.***
Nick Smith of pwnordie.com had the inspiration to hunt through youtube to visit the living rooms of 50 gleeful/tearful/wild/choked-up children to see each of them ripping open a new Nintendo Wii. “Oh My Gosh!”
Watching this video provoked a host of emotions, but I won’t comment further.  I’ll let [...]

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Christmas Cabbage, etc.

Christmas Cabbage, etc.

I spotted this ornamental cabbage poking out of the snow while walking through Manhattan two days ago.   Is this a hint of Spring to come or the very end of the summer?

Here are a couple of other cool things I saw while strolling through Manhattan.   How can you fit a blue whale in a room?  [...]

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What do non-Christians do at Christmas anyway?

What indeed!
Well, it may surprise some people, but we don’t sit around eating freshly roasted babies in front of a roaring church fire and wiping our mouths with Bible pages while we plot the destruction of Christianity. For one thing, it’s summer in Australia, which means it’s bushfire season.
No, what my family & friends do is more or [...]

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Manger scenes from around the world show that humans create God in their own image and likeness

Manger scenes from around the world show that humans create God in their own image and likeness

People create their Gods in their own image and likeness.  This is not an argument that God does or does not exist.  It’s merely an observation that what people claim to know about God is always a projection.
This thought that God is a projection occurred to me when looking at numerous delightful manger scenes crafted [...]

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Historical Contraception and Carols in mid-October

Historical Contraception and Carols in mid-October

I was having lunch with Joe the Juggler at the City Diner earlier this week. He was showing me some papers he found in the wall of his house. The original owner in 1892 apparently was in the personal rubber products business.
Back then, this was a euphemism for (shocked whisper) a birth control device. [...]

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Shopping for Jesus

Shopping for Jesus

Could this headline ever run in a major newspaper?   
 
Of course not!  Never is the alleged wall between the news department and the sales department of newspapers so low as during the holy season of senseless spending. 
Yes, I changed this headline to make a point.  The real headline disturbed me and I was struggling to effectively explain why.  [...]