The War on Merry!
 

Ladies and Gentlemen...

This week as I toured my city doing my Christmas shopping and watching TV I have not heard a single Merry Christmas! I have heard Happy Holidays, Happy Christmas, Happy Channuka, Happy Kwanza and even a few Happy New Years...

I tell you my friends, there is a war on Merry.

I haven't seen or heard the word in days.

When I called out a cheerful, Merry Christmas to the cashier at Old Navy, I swear she gave me a double take and murmered a "many happy returns to you, sir". What an odd thing for her to say. Either she was wishing me pleasure in returning my gifts post-Christmas OR she was afraid to say Merry Christmas because her managment would come down on her...

As I was walking down the street, I can't be sure but the carolers I passed were singing God Rest Ye Pleasant Gentlemen... by the time I realized what I was I'd heard and went back to make sure they'd switched to Good King Wenceslas.


I have tried to come up for a reason that Merry is being banished from Christmas and all I can come up with is a website that seems to have a thing against certain hobbits.

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Ladies and Gentlemen... this is a time to Eat, Drink and be Merry. Don't settle for Joyful... Happy... Overtly Pleased.

You have earned your right to be MERRY damn it and don't let any politically correct, hobbit hating, person tell you otherwise.

HAHAHAHAHA!!!!! Thanks for that, you rock. That last picture is perfect. I heard Merry was involved in a plane crash, after being in a rock band. Don't worry, he was eated by a t-rex or something.

Meriadoc and Frodo were longtime companions before Merry finally sucuumbed to AIDS.

Perhaps this is a conspiracy perpetrated by the religious right...

Time for a salvo of my own!!! If I can't use Merry then I will use the next best thing!





Have a Gay Christmas everyone... Eat, Drink and Be Merry!!!!

Along Comes Merry
The Association

Every time I think that I'm the only one who's lonely
Someone calls on me
And every now and then I spend my time in rhyme and verse
And curse those faults in me

And then along comes Merry
And does she want to give me kicks , and be my steady chick
And give me pick of memories
Or maybe rather gather tales of all the fails and tribulations
No one ever sees

When we met I was sure out to lunch
Now my empty cup tastes as sweet as the punch

When vague desire is the fire in the eyes of chicks
Whose sickness is the games they play
And when the masquerade is played and neighbor folks make jokes
As who is most to blame today

And then along comes Merry
And does she want to set them free, and let them see reality
From where she got her name
And will they struggle much when told that such a tender touch as hers
Will make them not the same

When we met I was sure out to lunch
Now my empty cup tastes as sweet as the punch

And when the morning of the warning's passed, the gassed
And flaccid kids are flung across the stars
The psychodramas and the traumas gone
The songs are left unsung and hung upon the scars

And then along comes Merry
And does she want to see the stains, the dead remains of all the pains
She left the night before
Or will their waking eyes reflect the lies, and make them
Realize their urgent cry for sight no more

When we met I was sure out to lunch
Now my empty cup tastes as sweet as the punch

Pippin' Christmas, everybody!

have yourself a merry little christmas
Make the Yule-tide gay,
From now on,
our troubles will be miles away.



The song says so!!!!

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Mal and Alpha... welcome to the Good Fight.

Merry Christmas!


Remember, it's We wish you a Merry Christmas... not

We wish you a jocund or pleasant Christmas.


Stay strong sisters!!!

Ok....I had to look that word up

jocund \JOCK-uhnd; JOH-kuhnd\, adjective:
Full of or expressing high-spirited merriment; light-hearted; mirthful

Merry is a much better word

Jocund rhymes with rotund, which Santa is, that big fatass.

Santa, you a fool! Come down my chimney and I'll whup your ass! Fatso!

Yeah, that's right. I called Santa out. I'm bad.

I need the coal, gas heating is eating me alive.

You are right to remind us ratbastid...

At this time of year is it VERY important to remember MERRY... after all that is what this time of year is all about... being MERRY.

But we should also remember that there are those who chose different modifiers... in the UK they just don't know the joys of MERRY. They are very much on the Happy Christmas side of things.

I dusted off my copy of the US constitution and found this:

We must remember that during this time when we are all trying to be Merry that we should also respect the wishes of the heathens that would be Happy or even Very Happy.

We must learn to tolerate the differences. The best way to celebrate the season is to be as MERRY as possible and let them see what they are missing.


We must remember that for us it is all about MERRY.

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And that's what I say, dammit.

The War is On!

i bet joe likes the word "gay" better than merry..........



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Mary & Joseph Christmas!

'Jocund' makes me think of jock straps. Merry makes me think of inebriation.

This thread is so... merry.

I must have called "Merry Christmas" about one bazillion times today. Toward the end it seemed like one of those words you stare at too long. Merry, mairie, Mary, mawee, mmuh mu mmm...

Margarita. Yes, that's better.

Meriadoc: LOTR's Jar Jar.

I thought the conspiracy was from the loony left. ;)

Have a Rama-hanna-kwanz-mas, everyone!!
Shamelessly stolen...can't remember from whom.

And MERRY CHRISTMAS!

I think it's more the Christmas part that I find missing... not the merry as much.

Yesterday I heard someone on the radio say "let's not forget the REAL reason for the season... Love." What the fudge???? Love?

I've heard "best of the season" "warmest wishes" "happy and healthy holiday season" and all that b.s. but a ridiculous lack of Christ, Jesus, Nativity, Bethlehem, and all that...you know... the real reason for the season....

How odd I just noticed that now as I'm thinking about it. I hear 'Happy Holidays' fairly often, but not so much Merry CHRISTmas or anything that reveals a cultural preference. Maybe everyone is turning too PC these days or worried about offending people so the tact is almost unconsciously done.

I work in customer service and I haven't been too careful spreading my 'Merry christmases' around. Maybe I should be saying Happy Holidays instead?

i think it's MAKE mary...

Eat and make mary?

Isn't this a Christmas thread? :D

Wasn't Mary a virgin...

You guys are sick.

round and yon...

merry christmas, everybody...

No, no, no, according to bible scholar Dan Brown, we've got it all wrong.

It's all in the DaVinci Code.

Actually according the Bible, Mary was a "young woman"... the whole virgin business is just a bad translation...

that's just what she says...........

I was just checking and it looks like the war on Christmas was won.

Jesus kicked Santa's ass... again.

I was searching for something else, and found this... I had totally forgotten about it.

Good times!