Hugh,
The U.S. is starting their battles in this arena as well. Our
megastore Walmart who stopped saying Merry Christmas, instead moving
to Happy Holidays. The majority of their customers were so unhappy
that they had to put it back. But it's the beginning of the
ending... I'm sure the
Dave,
The nicest cards I receive are any cards where somebody took the time
to write a letter in it. As most of my cards come from out of town,
people I do not see in person, that note or letter is full of great
meaning to me.
Whether the card itself says Merry Christmas or Happy Holidays
Shari wrote:
The U.S. is starting their battles in this arena as well. Our megastore
Walmart who stopped saying Merry Christmas, instead moving to Happy
Holidays. The majority of their customers were so unhappy that they had
to put it back. But it's the beginning of the ending... I'm sure
One of the biggest companies fanning the flames of this battle has
been Fox News, who made a catchy slogan out of War On Christmas
and has devoted a lot of airtime to rallying anger around that, but
whose web site ironically offers holiday ornaments and not
Christmas ornaments.
This is
On 23 Dec 2006, at 14:27, Shari wrote:
As for your neighbors who sent a goat to Malawi, which was a very
happy heartfelt gesture, did they truly save enough money on not
sending cards to buy a whole goat? Are cards and postage that
expensive? Or do they know that many people? Or are
Thank you, Alain. I only wish I had the nerve to take the credit...
Unfortunately I cannot. For those of us living in the UK where 'Happy
Christmas',
school nativity plays or anything celebrating our own culture that is seen to
be
at the expense of minority groups, is subject to a fear of
Hi Hugh
I sympathise, but don't get yourself ill about it. (Save that for
dealing with British Gas.)
The nicest card I've received this year had Happy Holiday on it. But
it was written in crayon by the little girls next door, and had a
nice picture of reindeer on the front (or perhaps it
Dear friends,
Just to clarify my earlier response to 'Solstice Salutations', please accept
with no obligation, implied or implicit, my best wishes for an
environmentally conscious, socially responsible, low stress, non-addictive,
gender neutral
celebration of the winter solstice holiday,
Dear Hugh,
Dear friends,
A curious beginning for what follows! ;-)
Just to clarify my earlier response to 'Solstice
Salutations', please accept with no obligation,
implied or implicit, my best wishes for an
environmentally conscious, socially responsible,
low stress, non-addictive,
