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[pmcd9]

This isn't really a war on Christmas thread unless you want it to be. No, this is just a regular old Christmas thread with a provocative title. Just call me the anti Upworthy.

So I thought I would kick things off with a Christmas song that even people who hate Christmas music usually like. It's the classic Fairy Tale of New York done by Calexico and Iron and Wine on Jimmy Fallon's show last night. The only thing not good about it is NBC felt the need to bleep Faggot from the lyrics. Oh brother.

[Carlos del Vaca]

Saw that this morning, it's fantastic. I'm no fan of derogatory gay terms, but in that case it's just what the song lyric is and I think we should live with it. (Acknowledged, though, that as a straight person I'm in no position to tell gay people what they should or should not be offended by, but it's just my opinion.)

The War on Christmas is such a frickin' straw man. I have yet to hear of one actual verifiable instance in which someone actually said "You shouldn't say 'Merry Christmas.'"

[Turbo Ninja]

Thanks for sharing that, Paul.  My favorite Christmas song hands down, and I love Hansard, Beam and Calexico.  That was just about perfect.  You'll find at least one tiny can in your stocking this year.

REVISED TO ADD: Played this for my wife last night and she liked it so much she cried a little.  She said it's funny how much better you can understand how happy and hopeful the song is, when not performed by Slurrin' Shane MacGowan.

[dejavroom]

A very Brazilian Christmas: Saw an ad on a bus today: "Put some lingerie on your Christmas."

[wombat]

So I thought I would kick things off with a Christmas song that even people who hate Christmas music usually like. It's the classic Fairy Tale of New York done by Calexico and Iron and Wine on Jimmy Fallon's show last night. The only thing not good about it is NBC felt the need to bleep Faggot from the lyrics. Oh brother.

I almost didn't click on this because I was sure anyone else doing this song had to be a disappointment. But while that woman is no Kirsty McColl, it was really pretty good.

[AugustWest]

ALSO: I never knew my favourite xMas tune had a location connection to the EggMan.

I did not know this.  Know who else was from Lexington?  This guy.

[Carlos del Vaca]

Dammit, Mayor, you wouldn't friggin' believe where I had to go to drag this out to you.
[i think it's a hoax]

You'd be right about the hoax part. Wikipedia on National Report: "National Report (nationalreport.net) is a satirical website devoted to often subtle parodies of real news which convince the unwary. It is published by Allen Montgomery.[1]"

The story is repeated verbatim on a couple of "genuine" news sites, but nowhere reputable. The story claims the student talked to CNN, but nothing about the story there. There is no Argon Elementary in SF; there is an Argonne Elementary, but the principal is not Paul Horner.

Fake fake fake-ity fake.

[Carlos del Vaca]

I have one FB friend (my wife's cousin) who regularly posts shit like that, that reinforces his beliefs but is easily refutable. If there's a rebuttal on Snopes or something else easily attainable like that, I'll post it as a comment to his post.

He did have something recently about NSA shenanigans that did sound possibly genuine and distressing. But my thought was "If everything else he posts is bullshit, why should I believe this?" Probably should have alerted him to that fact, I guess.

[pmcd9]

I did not know this.  Know who else was from Lexington?  This guy.

That guy was the pitchman for... something, I can't remember now, a company in Houston anyway, for years. I thought he was local until he started making his corny ass movies.

[Carlos del Vaca]

That early Jim Varney stuff was oddly compelling. He endorsed a different product in every market, but made sure none of them were in direct competition with each other. I remember him shilling for Green's Ice Cream.

[Arachno-capitalist]

Can someone please direct me to that custom artist thing someone (cort?) posted on our last gift exchange?

[jay-ell]

Project Dispatch!

http://www.projectdispatch.biz/

[Arachno-capitalist]

Thanks for that.

Also, this is the only correct way to watch this movie: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=swZYMIdWMa4

[jaydub]

An actual skirmish: (although its from the other side of the debate)

The War on Christmas is such a frickin' straw man. I have yet to hear of one actual verifiable instance in which someone actually said "You shouldn't say 'Merry Christmas.'"

[greenkoolayd]