What I want to know is why is the season expanding? Like baseball and hockey, which seem to go on your round now is the holiday, the single day of Christmas, a season that starts around the end of October and runs to the middle of January? It never seemed to be that long, but now it is. Is it because the the "War on Christmas" is being lost ??
Last Friday I was at the barber shop getting my hair cut, the inevitable 'war on Christmas' discussion was going on. Two points that were being made were that the use of the term 'Happy Holiday' was offensive to the person talking and also that the term 'Merry X-mas' was also bad as it is CHRISTmas.
I took the latter issue first and pointed out that X ... was an appropriate shortening of the word for Christ as the Greek spelling of Chistos started with an X. Historically that was the code since the 2nd century AD.
Then for the former I mentioned that it was 2 weeks away from Christmas but it was the first day of Hanukkah and wished the same to the person. I left him slack jawed and unable to respond. 'Tis the season.....
falalala laaaaa.