# FIFTY fricken days! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 7, 2008, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fifty-fricken-days/471648 "2008-11-07T16:08:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![StarvingButStrong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/starvingbutstrong/32/335_2.png) [@StarvingButStrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarvingButStrong)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2008, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fifty-fricken-days/471648/1 "2008-11-07T16:08:17Z")
Yesterday WROR switched to all Christmas music. Really. FIFTY full days of Little Drummer Boy and White Christmas and those barking dogs… :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2008, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fifty-fricken-days/471648/2 "2008-11-07T16:20:24Z")
The Holiday commercials have started too. I can listen to a CD or MP3 player instead of the radio but how can I not watch TV?! If only I had TIVO. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2008, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fifty-fricken-days/471648/3 "2008-11-07T16:38:46Z")
Twelve ought to be enough for anyone. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2008, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fifty-fricken-days/471648/4 "2008-11-07T16:43:05Z")
If there’s a War on Christmas, it looks to me like Christmas is fighting back, and probably winning. We need better ammo. ---
**Author:** ![Incensed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Incensed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Incensed)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2008, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fifty-fricken-days/471648/5 "2008-11-07T18:09:37Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > If there’s a War on Christmas, it looks to me like Christmas is fighting back, and probably winning. > > We need better ammo. - ::Produces oversize crayon, bites tongue, painstakingly writes ‘M-1 Abrams and attendant depleted uranium anti-tank rounds’ on Christmas Wish List in childish scrawl.::\* ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2008, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fifty-fricken-days/471648/6 "2008-11-07T18:30:30Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > If there’s a War on Christmas, it looks to me like Christmas is fighting back, and probably winning. > > We need better ammo. I think we need to take off and nuke it from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure. ---
**Author:** ![TroubleAgain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@TroubleAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroubleAgain)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2008, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fifty-fricken-days/471648/7 "2008-11-07T18:40:23Z")
Mmmm-hmm. I had a Christmas song inserted by force into my head just from being in Wal-Mart the other day. They were playing Christmas songs over the PA. :smack: There oughtta be a law. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![thirdwarning](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecccb3/32.png) [@thirdwarning](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thirdwarning)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2008, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fifty-fricken-days/471648/8 "2008-11-07T18:44:47Z")
The oldies station my husband listens to went to All-Christmas on Nov. 1, or maybe even Halloween. He was horrified. I think it might be too much even for me, and I’m the one who fights with my kids most of this month to be able to play my Christmas CDs. They won’t let me if they catch me. I will admit, they don’t object too much when that’s all I play during December. So I can’t really complain. After dinner on Thanksgiving, is the rule they’ve given me. (I fudge it some.) ---
**Author:** ![kitemaker\_chuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a88e4f/32.png) [@kitemaker\_chuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitemaker_chuck)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2008, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fifty-fricken-days/471648/9 "2008-11-07T19:11:10Z")
The Christmas music is playing to prepare everyone for the BIG, BIG, BIG Pre-Before After Christmas Sales!!! ---
**Author:** ![THespos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8c91f0/32.png) [@THespos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/THespos)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2008, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fifty-fricken-days/471648/10 "2008-11-07T21:40:00Z")
[Welcome to Consember!](http://www.hespos.com/?p=327) ---
**Author:** ![overlyverbose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/9dc877/32.png) [@overlyverbose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/overlyverbose)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2008, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fifty-fricken-days/471648/11 "2008-11-07T21:47:52Z")
> [@Larry\_Mudd](#): > > Twelve ought to be enough for anyone. You meant twelve minutes, right? Right?!? ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2008, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fifty-fricken-days/471648/12 "2008-11-07T21:54:12Z")
I am a huge fan of Christmas - but this is much too early! So far I haven’t heard any Christmas music, although I am seeing the holiday commercials. ---
**Author:** ![Lightray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightray/32/391_2.png) [@Lightray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightray)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2008, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fifty-fricken-days/471648/13 "2008-11-07T22:16:53Z")
It is never too early to switch to an all-Christmas format. One of the radio stations in St. Louis (“Movin’ 101.1”) switched sometime around Oct 10th. And not the _good_ Christmas music, either. Amy Grant, and George Michael singing “Last Christmas”, and stuff. Even the other radio stations _in their company_ are making on-air jokes about it. ---
**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:** [November 7, 2008, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fifty-fricken-days/471648/14 "2008-11-07T22:17:38Z")
> [@StarvingButStrong](#): > > Yesterday WROR switched to all Christmas music. > > Really. > > FIFTY full days of Little Drummer Boy and White Christmas and those barking dogs… :smack: Oh, man! I’m so jealous! No, seriously. I’m waiting with bated breath for our local stations to start. START ALREADY, LOCAL STATIONS! (The fact that it will completely drive **supervenusfreak** around the bend when it does start is just gravy…) ---
**Author:** ![overlyverbose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/9dc877/32.png) [@overlyverbose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/overlyverbose)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2008, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fifty-fricken-days/471648/15 "2008-11-07T22:24:02Z")
> [@Lightray](#): > > It is never too early to switch to an all-Christmas format. One of the radio stations in St. Louis (“Movin’ 101.1”) switched sometime around Oct 10th. > > And not the _good_ Christmas music, either. Amy Grant, and George Michael singing “Last Christmas”, and stuff. > > Even the other radio stations _in their company_ are making on-air jokes about it. This is one of the many reasons I stopped listening to that station. I remember when it was kinda, sorta good music back when I was at Wash U. Now that station really blows the goat. Thank god for NPR. ---
**Author:** ![MonaLizaT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e5b9ba/32.png) [@MonaLizaT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MonaLizaT)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2008, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fifty-fricken-days/471648/16 "2008-11-07T22:36:42Z")
> [@StarvingButStrong](#): > > Yesterday WROR switched to all Christmas music. > > Really. > > FIFTY full days of Little Drummer Boy and White Christmas and those barking dogs… :smack: Both times that this has happened here, the station switched formats immediately after the holiday. I’d be suspicious…:eek: ---
**Author:** ![Atomic\_Mama](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b5ac83/32.png) [@Atomic\_Mama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atomic_Mama)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2008, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fifty-fricken-days/471648/17 "2008-11-07T23:46:01Z")
I am a (volunteer) disc jockey … I spin CDs for my personal entertainment & the listeners’ edification. I just got my first promo (i.e., free to me) Christmas CD last Sunday, Nov. 1st; it looks way cool (Ray Charles! and other blues, R&B, jazz stuff) but NO WAY will I play it EXCEPT on the ONE show nearest to Christmas, which will be on Dec. 20. I never preview the new CDs that come in; I like to take chances 😃 And I always close the Christmas show with Charlie Musselwhite’s “Silent Night.” On Alligator Records. Thanks, Bruce! > **[KNBA - Homepage](https://www.knba.org/)** > > KNBA is Native-owned and -operated with the goals of highlighting Indigenous voices and music. ---
**Author:** ![woodstockbirdybird](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/woodstockbirdybird/32/7905_2.png) [@woodstockbirdybird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstockbirdybird)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2008, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fifty-fricken-days/471648/18 "2008-11-07T23:54:12Z")
This is shocking. People still listen to music on the radio? ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2008, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fifty-fricken-days/471648/19 "2008-11-08T00:03:07Z")
I know Christmas is almost hear and I’m still in shock from last year’s snow. Now if I had money to buy presents I’d be all set. ---
**Author:** ![Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hazle_Weatherfield)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2008, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fifty-fricken-days/471648/20 "2008-11-08T00:46:15Z")
> [@Lightray](#): > > It is never too early to switch to an all-Christmas format. One of the radio stations in St. Louis (“Movin’ 101.1”) switched sometime around Oct 10th. > > And not the _good_ Christmas music, either. Amy Grant, and George Michael singing “Last Christmas”, and stuff. > > Even the other radio stations _in their company_ are making on-air jokes about it. There’s another one in addition to Movin’, but I don’t stay there long enough to find out what it is. It just makes me mad, though! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fifty-fricken-days/471648.md?page=2)