# Barfy Christmas Lights **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 21, 1999, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barfy-christmas-lights/12212 "1999-12-21T21:39:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 1999, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barfy-christmas-lights/12212/1 "1999-12-21T21:39:00Z")
My neighbor and I share a tree in the front yard (townhouse). Well it’s her tree, no question. It grows on her yard. But the tree hangs into our yard too… well anyway, she put up a HUGE blue cross in lights in the tree… I almost barfed when I saw it. I just hope no one thinks it is ours. * * * – Teeming Millions: [http://fathom.org/teemingmillions](http://fathom.org/teemingmillions) “Meat flaps, yellow!” - DrainBead, naked co-ed Twister chat O p a l C a t [www.opalcat.com](http://www.opalcat.com) ---
**Author:** ![missdavis102](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7feea3/32.png) [@missdavis102](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missdavis102)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 1999, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barfy-christmas-lights/12212/2 "1999-12-21T21:49:00Z")
## How unfortunate! Maybe you could disable it somehow, or even better, replace some of the lights with different colors and make it blink in a pornographic fashion. It may be that when an ornithologist says the Water Ouzel walks under the water, he only means that he has seen a Water Ouzel or some other bird sitting on a stone in the general vicinity of a body of water. –Will Cuppy ---
**Author:** ![BoBettie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@BoBettie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BoBettie)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 1999, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barfy-christmas-lights/12212/3 "1999-12-21T23:36:00Z")
Opal, One quick snip in the dead of night… Oh, I wish I lived nearby…it would make for a fun evening adventure 🙂 Zette * * * Love is like popsicles…you get too much you get too high. Not enough and you’re gonna die… [Click here for some GOOD news for a change](http://www.binghamtonpress.com/binghamtonnews/local/Sanews5.html)[Zettecity](http://www.angelfire.com/ny3/zettecity/index.html) ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 1999, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barfy-christmas-lights/12212/4 "1999-12-22T15:10:00Z")
The problem is that I really like my neighbor. She is a really wonderful lady… I just hate those damn lights!! * * * – Teeming Millions: [http://fathom.org/teemingmillions](http://fathom.org/teemingmillions) “Meat flaps, yellow!” - DrainBead, naked co-ed Twister chat O p a l C a t [www.opalcat.com](http://www.opalcat.com) ---
**Author:** ![missdavis102](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7feea3/32.png) [@missdavis102](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missdavis102)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 1999, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barfy-christmas-lights/12212/5 "1999-12-22T16:01:00Z")
I guess that’s not the worst thing that a neighbor could do; still, it is annoying, especially if seeing it makes you want to barf. Situations like this call for a mantra. Mine is a double: Suffering Builds Character and This Too Shall Pass. ## Or, you could put up some outside decoration of your own that would clash with hers, so nobody would suspect the big blue cross belonged to you. It may be that when an ornithologist says the Water Ouzel walks under the water, he only means that he has seen a Water Ouzel or some other bird sitting on a stone in the general vicinity of a body of water. –Will Cuppy ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 1999, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barfy-christmas-lights/12212/6 "1999-12-22T22:33:00Z")
Or you could bend some stiff wire into the proper shape, wrap blue outdoor lights around it, and post a big blue shield on your front lawn. Then you and neighbor lady can bill the medical insurance folks for advertising. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Boris\_B](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/fbc32d/32.png) [@Boris\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boris_B)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 1999, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barfy-christmas-lights/12212/7 "1999-12-23T00:31:00Z")
I have nothing to add to this thread, except to say _I love the word “barfy”!_ * * * - Boris B, Hellacious Ornithologist ---
**Author:** ![Padeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@Padeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Padeye)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 1999, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barfy-christmas-lights/12212/8 "1999-12-23T00:35:00Z")
Barfy? I thought it was a _Family Circus_ thread. ---
**Author:** ![Catrandom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7bcc69/32.png) [@Catrandom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catrandom)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 1999, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barfy-christmas-lights/12212/9 "1999-12-23T00:41:00Z")
My landlord has strung those blinky-blinky white lights around the hedge in front of my apartment (I have the front half of a bungalow and he has the back). I’d prefer it if they weren’t blinking, but it could be much worse, it appears. For me the big blue cross wouldn’t be offensive, but it sounds pretty tacky. Catrandom