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Merry X'mas to all

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  • 24-12-2005 11:21am
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    Asiaprod
    Registered Users Posts: 6,737 ✭✭✭


    Merry Christmas to all on the forum from the Buddhist


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    pH
    Registered Users Posts: 4,188 ✭✭✭pH


    Merry Christmas! ...

    and on a Christmas note I just read this on the consumerist
    The Consumerist wrote:
    Until the Civil War Christmas was but scantily observed. Most shockingly, retailers hardly seemed to take notice of the occasion. Historians report that the pages of the New York Tribune in 1841 did not contain a single example of advertising with a Christmas theme. It wasn’t until after the Civil War that retailers began experimenting with special Christmas sales. Once they did, however, it didn’t take long for them to discover the commercial possibilities offered by the holiday. By 1970 December had become the merchants’ single largest selling month of the year.

    Quote from Richard Shenkman’s Legends, Lies & Cherished Myths of American History


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    Dades
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,558 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dades


    Y'all have a good one!

    I will be freezing my heathen bones in the 40 foot tomorrow in Dun Laoghaire - consider it confession for atheists!


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    robindch
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    A merry and thoroughly decadent Saturnalia to all!


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    lostexpectation
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,082 ✭✭✭lostexpectation


    pH wrote:
    Merry Christmas! ...

    and on a Christmas note I just read this on the consumerist

    is this a reflection on corrupting capitialistism or human beings needing little excuse for piss up :)


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