# Christmas decorations you'd like to put up **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 17, 2006, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-decorations-youd-like-to-put-up/384530 "2006-12-17T18:57:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2006, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-decorations-youd-like-to-put-up/384530/1 "2006-12-17T18:57:53Z")
I’ve always wanted to set up a Nativity scene, only with a baby werewolf as Jesus. Or go all out and have all of the figures be Universal monsters (with a baby werewolf in the crib). ---
**Author:** ![Athena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/35a633/32.png) [@Athena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Athena)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2006, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-decorations-youd-like-to-put-up/384530/2 "2006-12-17T19:30:57Z")
I used to have neighbors who put up a small herd of lighted wire-frame reindeer every year at Christmas. They put them right next to the property lines between the two yards. I longed to put up a wire frame hunter in my yard, crouched behind a bush with his rifle pointed at those damn deer. I never did because I figured it would be better to have my neighbors not hate me. But I still want to. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2006, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-decorations-youd-like-to-put-up/384530/3 "2006-12-17T19:53:43Z")
A _Star Wars_ nativity set-with Padme and Anakin as Mary and Joseph, Baby Luke and Leia, and Yoda, Mace Windu, and Obi-Wan as the Three Wisemen. (And Qui-Gon Jinn as the missing fourth). ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2006, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-decorations-youd-like-to-put-up/384530/4 "2006-12-17T20:08:09Z")
In one household in which I lived, instead of a nativity there was a naivete. All the plastic farm animals, dinosaurs, soldiers, sushi, and sometimes kitchen appliances came to adore Him, usually in a fairly elaborate diorama. ---
**Author:** ![cornflakes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@cornflakes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cornflakes)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2006, 9:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-decorations-youd-like-to-put-up/384530/5 "2006-12-18T09:45:32Z")
I hope this isn’t too sick, but my ex and I toyed with the idea of a kneeling Santa, with Rudolph laying on the ground beside him and Santa holding Rudolph’s head up by the [rack](http://www.bigrackadventures.com/images/2006/briankadrmasHPIM0424.jpg). Rudolph’s nose would glow red and then slowly fade out. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2006, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-decorations-youd-like-to-put-up/384530/6 "2006-12-18T12:15:52Z")
[QUOTE=Shoshana] In one household in which I lived, instead of a nativity there was a naivete. All the plastic farm animals, dinosaurs, soldiers, sushi, and sometimes kitchen appliances came to adore Him, usually in a fairly elaborate diorama. [/QUOTE] You mean all Nativities aren’t like that? The one at home doesn’t have sushi but that’s because we don’t believe in eating your fish raw. Two traditional Catalan nativity figures are the caganet (the man who shits) and the dead tree; before we imported that fat foreigner with the beard, kids would hit the dead tree three times before the Christmas Eve dinner and it would give them money. A lot of “traditional” Christmas adverts in Spain have changed this year. Nobody is “getting home for Christmas”, Luck in the lottery isn’t that bald Englishman any more… but Famosa dolls still walk to worship at the manger. I’m sure you’d love that ad. It’s so kitschy-on-purpose it’s absolutely adorable 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Emilio\_Lizardo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@Emilio\_Lizardo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emilio_Lizardo)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2006, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-decorations-youd-like-to-put-up/384530/7 "2006-12-18T14:19:44Z")
I’ve always wanted to do [something like this](http://www.flickr.com/photos/14559928@N00/?saved=1). ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2006, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-decorations-youd-like-to-put-up/384530/8 "2006-12-18T15:12:38Z")
One huge store window in our town had a beautiful Xmas decoration set up for a coupole of years. It was a huge town, complete with churches, mosqus, synagogues, animals (including dinosaurs) and all sort of people. Stuck way in the back was a 3" stable with Joseph Mary & Jesus in it. You had to look really really hard to even see it. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2006, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-decorations-youd-like-to-put-up/384530/9 "2006-12-18T15:32:28Z")
I’ve always been fond of those ones with the dummy hanging from the side of the roof, all tangled up in Christmas lights. ---
**Author:** ![Xema](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/9de053/32.png) [@Xema](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xema)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2006, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-decorations-youd-like-to-put-up/384530/10 "2006-12-18T21:47:29Z")
I hate admit it, but I actually find [this](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fLgcWug3dA) somewhat appealing. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2006, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-decorations-youd-like-to-put-up/384530/11 "2006-12-19T03:26:11Z")
I originally read the title as “Christmas decorations you’d like to shut up”. My mom has one of those singing poinsettias. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2006, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-decorations-youd-like-to-put-up/384530/12 "2006-12-19T03:27:40Z")
[QUOTE=Guinastasia] A _Star Wars_ nativity set-with Padme and Anakin as Mary and Joseph, Baby Luke and Leia, and Yoda, Mace Windu, and Obi-Wan as the Three Wisemen. (And Qui-Gon Jinn as the missing fourth). [/QUOTE] And Jar-Jar Binks as a camel!