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Wednesday, after changing my battery in my car Tuesday night, I had to reset all of my stations on the radio. And what did I hear? CHRISTMAS MUSIC!!!  It seems that 93.1 in Indy has been bought out and will change formats to talk radio, so in the mean time they are playing their 93 Days of Christmas promo. Don't think that the Orthodox get off scott free, the promo goes through January 7. (Honestly, since most of the stations play terrible music anyway, I do listen to the Christmas songs.  )
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And that surprises you? After all, Halloween is just around the corner, time to get that Christmas music going already!
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Madness. I went to a store last week and I saw artificial Christmas trees for sale. So much for Thanksgiving...
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From what I have gathered in my love of history is that prior to WWII everyone put up the tree and did their Christmas stuff on Christmas Eve. But after 1941, if you wanted to send your soldier boy a present, card, gift, or mini-tree, you had to get it shipped fairly early to get it to him on time. Hence, the start of the Christmas shopping season on the Friday after Thanksgiving.
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So much for Thanksgiving is right, it has become Turkey Day to too many people. The beginning of the final consumer countdown to retail sales, religous significance of giving thanks to God has been all but lost
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Every day should be Thanksgiving. Let the Western Secularists have Turkey Day.
"Aright! Having partaken of the divine, holy, immaculate, immortal, heavenly, life-giving, and awesome Mysteries of Christ, let us worthily give thanks unto the Lord."
Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom.
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Thanksgiving???
Wait a minute you guys. Thanksgiving was on Monday. It's over for this year.
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Why would anyone even want to eat turkey when one can have lamb?
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MMMMMM, Lamb! [ Linked Image]
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When I was in grammar school, we'd be subjected to "Back To School" sales the day after the 4th of July. It always made me want to throw bricks through windows.
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When I was in grammar school, we'd be subjected to "Back To School" sales the day after the 4th of July. It always made me want to throw bricks through windows. I bet now that you are an adult, those sales can not come early enough!  In IC XC, Father Anthony+
Everyone baptized into Christ should pass progressively through all the stages of Christ's own life, for in baptism he receives the power so to progress, and through the commandments he can discover and learn how to accomplish such progression. - Saint Gregory of Sinai
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When I was in grammar school, we'd be subjected to "Back To School" sales the day after the 4th of July. It always made me want to throw bricks through windows. LOL!!! HOWEVER, 'it is the most wonderful time of the year' (sung to the tune of the Christmas carol)...for parents, that is!!! There was a commercial for school supplies with that tune a few years ago...parents were pushing a cart and shopping with their children in a school supply section, and the parents were so ECSTATIC and enthusiastic that they were practically flying from joy!!! P.S. How funny that Fr. Anthony and I were thinking the same thing at the same time! Great minds think alike, Father--LOL!
Last edited by Alice; 10/14/07 09:42 PM. Reason: to add P.S.
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Alice,
You have mentioned one of my all time favorite commercials for Staples. The Ad Executive that came up with that one should have been given a BIG bonus for his genius.
In IC XC,
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Everyone baptized into Christ should pass progressively through all the stages of Christ's own life, for in baptism he receives the power so to progress, and through the commandments he can discover and learn how to accomplish such progression. - Saint Gregory of Sinai
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Alice,
You have mentioned one of my all time favorite commercials for Staples. The Ad Executive that came up with that one should have been given a BIG bonus for his genius.
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Father Anthony+ Yes, that is the one!  I wasn't initially sure if it was for Staples or not, but I wholeheartedly agree: it was SHEER GENIUS!  Regards... In Christ, Alice
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I like the one where Alice Cooper is shopping with "his daughter" and she says "I thought you said 'School's Out!'" He replied, "No, I said 'School's out for summer.'"
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I like the one where Alice Cooper is shopping with "his daughter" and she says "I thought you said 'School's Out!'" He replied, "No, I said 'School's out for summer.'" I haven't see that one! I remember LOVING that song in high school...that is when it first came out...hope I am not dating myself too much here.  Alice
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My dad used to blare that song outside on the last day of school as long as I can remember. I swear the pond in the back yard used to ripple!
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"Eighteen" by AC was one of the first songs I ever learned on guitar, cept I was fourteen.
We had a ritual at school on the last day, that I later learned wasen't very unique at all. Everyone out the doors and run like it's a prison break. Then for the next several days, the entire world just seemed a little more beautiful. Come September though it felt like going to prison.
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My dad used to blare that song outside on the last day of school as long as I can remember. I swear the pond in the back yard used to ripple! LOL! The way he sings those lyrics is SO intense, and that is what is so great about it when you are still in school and hear it at the end of the year!!! Alice (not Cooper )
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For those who don't know, our Alice looks nothing like Mr. Cooper! I couldn't find her picture to have a comparison.
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Speaking of Alice Cooper, occasionally I drive through the Richmond, Virginia, area where they broadcast a syndicated radio show "Nights with Alice Cooper." I was amazed to hear him preach "family values", even bashing Hugh Hefner. He's actually said he's a committed Christian...who'd a thunk?
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Speaking of Alice Cooper, occasionally I drive through the Richmond, Virginia, area where they broadcast a syndicated radio show "Nights with Alice Cooper." I was amazed to hear him preach "family values", even bashing Hugh Hefner. He's actually said he's a committed Christian...who'd a thunk? WOW! INDEED, who would have EVER thunk! GLORY TO GOD! Alice
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"I have never made fun of religion. Religion is something I don't even want to mess with, because I am really afraid of the clouds opening up and my being struck by lightning. Satanism is something else I don't mess with. I think that the heavy metal bands that do are playing with fire. I have never influenced people in a negative way, and I'm not about to start now."
-Alice Cooper
(His stuff was mostly schtick anyway. He wrote "The Man with the Golden Gun" which the James Bond producers let someone else sing instead.)
[About Marilyn Manson] "He took a girl's name as his first and wears a hell of a lot of makeup. I wish I'd thought of doing that."
-Alice Cooper
This thread is officially derailed, I guess since I started it and am contributing to the off topic topics I'm asking that it stay open since it wasn't really about anything to being with.
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More About Alice the Christian...from his website ( http://www.srfrock.org/why/): WHY SOLID ROCK Our Mission Solid Rock's primary goal is to honor Christ by helping to meet the spiritual, economical, physical, and social needs of teenagers and children within our community. Our Goals To honor Christ by providing a facility geared toward teenagers that will help them to negotiate through the turbulent adolescent years. The relationally trained Christian staff, of men and women, and the different venues will create an atmosphere which will make it a place where they will want to hang out. "The Rock" the name of the building will be designed to be a flexable needs structure centered around music. Programs will focus around a multi-use concert hall, coffee house (kitchen/snack bar for concert & other events), indoor basketball/floor hockey court, rock climbing walls, sound room and recording studio, computer/reading/study rooms, game room. Our goal is to make an everlasting difference in the lives of the teenagers and children we are dedicated to helping.
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I don't care what the popular culture says or does, December is Advent in our house, until the 25th. The tree does not go up until the weekend before Christmas.
Most so-called Christmas music is enough to make me ill. I found on amazon.com last year Catholic Christmas Classics by the Cathedral Singers and Richard Proulx. Except for one song, they are all quite beautiful, especially Puer Natus. I even broke it out on the Feast of the Annunciation.
About that staples.com commercial - I'm 44, and we're expecting our first in January (when Poland is still celebrating Christmas). I graduated from high school 25 years ago last June and I still hate back to school ads.
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