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HAPPY HOLIDAY!

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Motorcycleboy @ Fri Nov 24, 2006 12:36 am

I'd just like to take this opportunity to wish all my fellow Canadians a "HAPPY HOLIDAY".

Apparently, we no longer celebrate Christmas in Canada. From this day on, based on the "Holiday Tree" that they have at Toronto City Hall, we now celebrate "The Holidays".

Well, I was watching Wolf Blitzer on CNN and Larry King, and they were talking about the "Holidays" as well.

So I give up!

I guess we are all Americans now!

Long live the "Holidays", and "Death To Christmas."

It may not be truly "Canadian", but at least it's not American!

   



stratos @ Fri Nov 24, 2006 8:00 am

Here in America the PC thing is to say happy Hollidays but I still and always will say Marry Christamass. I do my best to say/write and remind people that Christ is the reason we celibrate.


So a Very Early Marry Christmass to you all.

   



Mr_Canada old @ Fri Nov 24, 2006 8:28 am

Fuck, I just think Christmas is a holiday. Everyone still calls it Christmas except for the systems. Like schools or the government.

Radio Stations, Alot of Television,e tc. Still do.

I am athiest and I still celebrate Christmas. Hell, in my book, it's a Canadian Holiday, not a religious one at all.

I know Jewish families who celebrate Christmas and Haunakka (Sorry, spelling) after living in Canada for around 5(+) years.

So Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

   



Clogeroo @ Fri Nov 24, 2006 9:19 am

Its kind of insulting in some ways 364 days out of the of the year people moan and complain about God and religious people yet somehow Christmas is fine because they get some presents. Shows how much people really stand on their principals apparently they can even be bribed. I have never seen a Jew celebrate Christmas or any Muslims either :P The person I’m seeing now is Jewish and she doesn’t celebrate it. Anyway Merry Christmas to all including the hypocrites too.

   



Motorcycleboy @ Fri Nov 24, 2006 9:35 am

stratos stratos:
Here in America the PC thing is to say happy Hollidays but I still and always will say Marry Christamass. I do my best to say/write and remind people that Christ is the reason we celibrate.


So a Very Early Marry Christmass to you all.


Yeah, but Stratos, in the States, the term "Happy Holidays" has often been used because Christmas and Thanksgiving fall fairly close together.

In Canada, that's not the case, because Thanksgiving falls in the first week of October here. As a result, we never used the term "Holidays" until a few years ago when it became politically incorrect to wish people a "Merry Christmas".

I just find it ironic how Canadians on the left are always whining about "American Domination" of our language and culture, but are quick to adopt an American term when it suits their own agenda.

   



Tricks @ Fri Nov 24, 2006 9:39 am

Mr_Canada Mr_Canada:
I am athiest and I still celebrate Christmas. Hell, in my book, it's a Canadian Holiday, not a religious one at all.
How is it a Canadian Holiday? Other countries celebrate it. It is a religious holiday that lost its religious meaning to most.

   



USCAdad @ Fri Nov 24, 2006 9:53 am

Tricks Tricks:
Mr_Canada Mr_Canada:
I am athiest and I still celebrate Christmas. Hell, in my book, it's a Canadian Holiday, not a religious one at all.
How is it a Canadian Holiday? Other countries celebrate it. It is a religious holiday that lost its religious meaning to most.

Because Santa is Canadian :wink: Ever wonder why the suit is Red and White?

   



Clogeroo @ Fri Nov 24, 2006 9:58 am

$1:
Ever wonder why the suit is Red and White?

Because of coca-cola advertising thus making a popular image of him. In many countries he wears green and gold or even just white. He is not fat either :P

   



Blue_Nose @ Fri Nov 24, 2006 10:01 am

Clogeroo Clogeroo:
Its kind of insulting in some ways 364 days out of the of the year people moan and complain about God and religious people yet somehow Christmas is fine because they get some presents. Shows how much people really stand on their principals apparently they can even be bribed. I have never seen a Jew celebrate Christmas or any Muslims either :P The person I’m seeing now is Jewish and she doesn’t celebrate it. Anyway Merry Christmas to all including the hypocrites too.
Christmas is fine because it's not about religion for most people. If it's a religious holiday for you, that's fine. Good friends of my parents are Muslim and give out Christmas presents and go to all the Christmas parties in the neighbourhood.

Halifax is still comfortable with "Christmas" - we have the Christmas Tree Lighting and Town Hall blasts Christmas music all day long in December.

   



Tricks @ Fri Nov 24, 2006 10:04 am

Clogeroo Clogeroo:
Its kind of insulting in some ways 364 days out of the of the year people moan and complain about God and religious people yet somehow Christmas is fine because they get some presents. Shows how much people really stand on their principals apparently they can even be bribed. I have never seen a Jew celebrate Christmas or any Muslims either :P The person I’m seeing now is Jewish and she doesn’t celebrate it. Anyway Merry Christmas to all including the hypocrites too.
Actually Santa represents the Secular Christmas.

Celebrating christmas no longer is religious to many. Now it is about giving things to those you care about. That's hardly hypocritical.

   



BartSimpson @ Fri Nov 24, 2006 10:35 am

Clogeroo Clogeroo:
I have never seen a Jew celebrate Christmas


A few years ago a very nice Jewish fellow I knew who owned a Subway franchise told me this:

"For any self-respecting Jew in retail, Christmas is a Jewish holiday!"

   



kaetz @ Fri Nov 24, 2006 10:39 am

BartSimpson BartSimpson:
Clogeroo Clogeroo:
I have never seen a Jew celebrate Christmas


A few years ago a very nice Jewish fellow I knew who owned a Subway franchise told me this:

"For any self-respecting Jew in retail, Christmas is a Jewish holiday!"

XD he knew what he was talking about!

   



Clogeroo @ Fri Nov 24, 2006 11:10 am

$1:
A few years ago a very nice Jewish fellow I knew who owned a Subway franchise told me this:

"For any self-respecting Jew in retail, Christmas is a Jewish holiday!"

Haha that is funny. But you are right I suppose there is truth to that.

   



stratos @ Fri Nov 24, 2006 11:12 am

$1:
Because Santa is Canadian Ever wonder why the suit is Red and White?


Actualy Finland is the offical home of Santa Clause. For home of record type things. Every one just says the north pole but Finland somehow got it worked out that they are the Offical home for him.

Of all the traditions ect... for christmass that are around only one came from america. Christmass cards. :lol:

   



Clogeroo @ Fri Nov 24, 2006 11:22 am

Christmas Cards were invented in England.

$1:
The first commercial Christmas cards were commissioned by Sir Henry Cole in London, 1843, and featured an illustration by John Callcott Horsley. The picture, of a family with a small child drinking wine together, proved controversial, but the idea was shrewd: Cole had helped introduce the Penny Post three years earlier. A batch of 1000 cards was printed and they sold for a shilling each; in December 2005, one of these cards was auctioned for nearly £9000.

Early English cards rarely showed winter or religious themes, instead favoring flowers, fairies and other fanciful designs that reminded the recipient of the approach of spring. Humorous and sentimental images of children and animals were popular, as were increasingly elaborate shapes, decorations and materials. In 1875 Louis Prang became the first printer to offer cards in America, though the popularity of his cards led to cheap imitations that eventually drove him from the market. The advent of the postcard spelled the end for elaborate Victorian-style cards, but by the 1920s, cards with envelopes had returned.

Cards continued to evolve throughout the 20th century with changing tastes and printing techniques. The World Wars brought cards with patriotic themes. Idiosyncratic "studio cards" with cartoon illustrations and sometimes risque humor caught on in the 1950s. Nostalgic, sentimental, and religious images are once again popular, and reproductions of Victorian and Edwardian cards are easy to obtain.

"Official" Christmas cards began with Queen Victoria in the 1840s. The British royal family's cards are generally portraits reflecting significant personal events of the year. In 1953, President Dwight D. Eisenhower issued the first official White House card. The cards usually depict White House scenes as rendered by prominent American artists. The number of recipients has snowballed over the decades, from just 2000 in 1961 to 1.4 million in 2005.[1]

Modern Christmas cards can be bought individually but are usually sold in packs of the same or varied designs. A revival of interest in paper crafts, particularly scrapbooking, has raised the status of the homemade card and made available an array of tools for stamping, punching and cutting. Advances in digital photography and printing have provided a more technological way to personalize cards with photos, messages, or clip art.

Technology may also be responsible for the decline of the Christmas card. The estimated number of cards received by American households dropped from 29 in 1987 to 20 in 2004.[2] Email and telephones allow for more frequent contact and are easier for generations raised without handwritten letters. Nonetheless, with 1.9 billion cards sent in the U.S. in 2005 alone, they are unlikely to disappear any time soon.

From the beginning, Christmas cards have been avidly collected. Queen Mary amassed a large collection that is now housed in the British Museum.[3] Specimens from the "golden age" of printing (1840s-1890s) are especially prized and bring in large sums at auctions. Collectors may focus on particular images like Santa Claus, poets, or printing techniques.

   



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