# 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:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Amber\_in\_Treasury](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bc79bd/32.png) [@Amber\_in\_Treasury](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amber_in_Treasury)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2008, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fifty-fricken-days/471648/21 "2008-11-08T01:14:17Z")
Please have the decency to fill me up with Glühwein before treating me to Wham’s “Last Christmas”. Or else I might just go postal. K-thx. ---
**Author:** ![Jolly\_Roger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/91b2a8/32.png) [@Jolly\_Roger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jolly_Roger)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2008, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fifty-fricken-days/471648/22 "2008-11-08T01:18:42Z")
> [@Amber\_in\_Treasury](#): > > Please have the decency to fill me up with Glühwein before treating me to Wham’s “Last Christmas”. Or else I might just go postal. K-thx. same for me but add \*\*\*“Grandma got run over by a reindeer”. \*\*\*If I’m not sedated I might Hulk out. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2008, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fifty-fricken-days/471648/23 "2008-11-08T01:48:34Z")
If I was King of the World, I’d stipulate no mention of Christmas to be made by retailers or entertainment until December 1st. ---
**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 8, 2008, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fifty-fricken-days/471648/24 "2008-11-08T03:19:13Z")
> [@Hazle\_Weatherfield](#): > > 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! I think that was the “Delilah” glurge-fest show. On easy listening somethingorother. (It’s on my pre-programmeds because it actually gives traffic updates in the morning, frequently, instead of the endless blather of other stations.) (Honest. Stop looking at me like that.) ---
**Author:** ![Olentzero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/90ced4/32.png) [@Olentzero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Olentzero)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2008, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fifty-fricken-days/471648/25 "2008-11-08T03:42:41Z")
> [@StarvingButStrong](#): > > Yesterday WROR switched to all Christmas music. What up, fellow New Englander? Thanks for the heads-up. Not that I listen to 'ROR all that much, but now it’ll get a pass when I scan for something to listen to. ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2008, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fifty-fricken-days/471648/26 "2008-11-08T14:26:15Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > If I was King of the World, I’d stipulate no mention of Christmas to be made by retailers or entertainment until December 1st. It would be December 24 if I were king. Christmas music is bullshit. ---
**Author:** ![Risha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/5fc32e/32.png) [@Risha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Risha)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2008, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fifty-fricken-days/471648/27 "2008-11-08T17:19:57Z")
The ones I truly pity are the employees trapped in the stores that have started up the carols already. Especially those stationed near the life-sized dancing Santa display. ---
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2008, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fifty-fricken-days/471648/28 "2008-11-09T01:49:50Z")
That was almost as bad as being stuck near the N64. “It’sa Me! Mario! It’sa Me! Mario! It’sa Me! Mario!” ---
**Author:** ![Jaglavak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/85f322/32.png) [@Jaglavak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jaglavak)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2008, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fifty-fricken-days/471648/29 "2008-11-09T04:11:17Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > Oh, man! I’m so jealous! > No, seriously. I’m waiting with bated breath for our local stations to start. Dude. Seek therapy. Last year during the playoffs I was over at a friend’s place helping him yell at the TV. Our team scored, so of course we all clapped & hollered. Then from behind me I heard an odd noise. Sure enough, to my horror, there was a big plastic sound activated dancing Santa. Of course once my buddies found out that it bugged me, they wouldn’t let me take the batteries out of the cursed thing. So for the whole damn game whenever we scored, Santa danced the macarena. Soooooo wrong. ---
**Author:** ![Eureka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/74df32/32.png) [@Eureka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eureka)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2008, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fifty-fricken-days/471648/30 "2008-11-10T02:19:34Z")
> [@Risha](#): > > The ones I truly pity are the employees trapped in the stores that have started up the carols already. > > Especially those stationed near the life-sized dancing Santa display. Yep–I’ve got a crappy retail job, but at least I don’t have to listen to Holiday music while I’m doing it (and who, exactly, do they think they are kidding by calling it Holiday? Sure there’s some Kosher for Hannakuh dog treats ( I may be mis-remembering the description) on an endcap, but 96% of the stuff is Christmas-y. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Plastic\_Ninja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f07891/32.png) [@Little\_Plastic\_Ninja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Plastic_Ninja)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2008, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fifty-fricken-days/471648/31 "2008-11-10T22:30:22Z")
If the Christmas music they played on the radio was GOOD, it wouldn’t be so bad. Crooners are only tolerable for so long and anything too church-y could conceivably be offensive and get complaints, so they play the most bland, dull, “inoffensive” schlock they can. ---
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2008, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fifty-fricken-days/471648/32 "2008-11-11T02:44:56Z")
So, whatcha like? I’ll listen to Mannheim Steamroller _or_ Trans-Siberian Orchestra for hours. … or, really, any version of Carol of the Bells for hours and hours. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fifty-fricken-days/471648.md?page=1)