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November 27, 2004
You just can't make this stuff up
$2,500 animated Grinch replaces a massive Christmas display. Why? Read and find out. (Related thought: No doubt in Albert's fantasy Catholic monarchy, the Aertses would be forced to take down their display and replace it with Advent decorations, at least until Christmas Eve. He'd have to tell us what would happen then.)
Posted by Thomas A. on November 27, 2004 at 08:46 PM | Permalink
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My favorite part is that it's the neighbors who don't properly embody Christmas spirit. I forgot that part of the Nativity where Joseph erects a giant finger pointing statue at the innkeeper who refused admittance. I'm not sure what would happen in my Catholic monarchy. Maybe since my Catholic monarchy is paired with a Catholic society I wouldn't have to worry about it. ;-)
Posted by: Al T | Nov 27, 2004 10:35:22 PM
This reminds me of my dad's approach to Christmas decorations.
Evidently, it's not the number of lights that matters: it's the wattage. So while everyone else in the neighborhood was busy performing death-defying acrobatics stringing the little twinklies across branches and rooftops, my dad just staked one whopping floodlight with a green filter in our front lawn and aimed it at our door.
Of course, this meant everytime you stepped outside, your were blinded with a verdant light as if under siege by elfin law enforcement.
Anyway, I suppose if the complaining neighbors in the article linked above really wanted to get even, they could take a baby Jesus and nail it to a tree as a sign of...oh, wait...we already did that, didn't we?
Never mind.
Posted by: Peter | Nov 27, 2004 11:29:32 PM
