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What the Fark 2: That Was... Interesting.

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I think there should be a modern version of A Christmas Carol, where Scrooge is a miser as he resists any and all Christmas spirit from his employees and friends throughout the month of October, insisting Christmas celebration not start until December.
 
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Slap Shot said:
Christmas lights have been up on some homes for two weeks.
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At one place we lived, it was so difficult getting the lights up, I never took them down again. Just unplugged them in January and plugged them back in again after Thanksgiving.
 
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FreshFish said:
At one place we lived, it was so difficult getting the lights up, I never took them down again. Just unplugged them in January and plugged them back in again after Thanksgiving.
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Many homes/businesses in Alaska put their lights up in October and leave them up all winter, just because it provides some extra lighting to help cope with the darkness.

My personal rule: as soon as Santa Claus appears on screen in the broadcast of the Macy's parade, that is the start of the Christmas season. No sooner. Unfortunately, several businesses seem to be taking me at my word and starting the Christmas doorbusters Thanksgiving evening...
 
Twitch Boy said:
Many homes/businesses in Alaska put their lights up in October and leave them up all winter, just because it provides some extra lighting to help cope with the darkness.

My personal rule: as soon as Santa Claus appears on screen in the broadcast of the Macy's parade, that is the start of the Christmas season. No sooner. Unfortunately, several businesses seem to be taking me at my word and starting the Christmas doorbusters Thanksgiving evening...
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One of the radio stations has already shifted to being the Christmas music station. :mad:
 
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FreshFish said:
At one place we lived, it was so difficult getting the lights up, I never took them down again. Just unplugged them in January and plugged them back in again after Thanksgiving.
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Yeah, I have one strip at my house in MN that never comes down. But here I'm talking about full-bore setups that are fully removed and reset each season. They love their celebrations. Hell Halloween is 3 days, but there's no treating and it's all about remembering (passed because they have actually passed, or past as in from before?) loved ones.
 
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In my town the mangers go up Thanksgiving night. It's really wild to wake up to a hundred baby Jesuses where the day before there were just Steelers flags and pickups up on blocks. (Both are still there, and one guy puts his manger in the pick up, which I think it's the most American thing possible).
 
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Today in The Joy of Derp: the greatest thing about the outsized influence of actors and jocks in our culture is that really dumb people start to believe they understand things.
 
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Kepler said:
Best way to neutralize a term of hate is to co-opt it. c.f. "queer."
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Great!

So you'd be on board if a tribe bought out Dan Snyder and kept the Washington NFL franchise moniker as "Redskins" and if a "Sioux" tribe approved restoring that name to UND, right? They'd be co-opting ...
 
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The Sicatoka said:
Great!

So you'd be on board if a tribe bought out Dan Snyder and kept the Washington NFL franchise moniker as "Redskins" and if a "Sioux" tribe approved restoring that name to UND, right? They'd be co-opting ...
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For the "r" word, I think it has to be a little broader than just one tribe. The idea is that the group the hate is directed at decides that rather than treating the word as a stone thrown at a window, they take it back and use it as a boulder to crush the haters' whole house. That requires mass effort, as with "n" and "q." Those words are a big ol' f-u right back at the people who used those terms in hate. Native Americans could do something like that, but I don't have any evidence that they are doing so.

I never saw the problem with the Sioux, and all the TBRW tables where ND is mentioned have deliberately kept the old emblem, which I think is awesome. If that's what passes for a hate crime, we've pretty much reached Utopia. (Note: all old emblems are kept, because new things suck. I haven't found a really good Dartmouth Indian yet, but when I do...)
 
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No surprise that Jose Canseco would do something dumb like shoot off his finger, but -- it's reattached and falls off?:eek: What happened, did he reattach it himself with gorilla glue?
 
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CLS said:
No surprise that Jose Canseco would do something dumb like shoot off his finger, but -- it's reattached and falls off?:eek: What happened, did he reattach it himself with gorilla glue?
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He gave the finger to the dealer.
 
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For a second I thought it was Watertown, NY. Mais non, it is Watertown, MA. Hearty congratulations to them on a remarkable achievement.

Watertown Athletics ‏@WatertownSports 54m54 minutes ago
Watertown Field Hockey

STATE CHAMPS

THE PERFECT SEASON

23-0

NO GOALS GIVEN UP ALL YEAR!!!!!!!!!!

Out scored opponents 114-0 this year
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