# Hey Guys and Ladies! Y'all Okay? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 26, 2012, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-guys-and-ladies-yall-okay/645141 "2012-12-26T01:12:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2012, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-guys-and-ladies-yall-okay/645141/21 "2012-12-26T06:13:46Z")
Okay, calling it a night here. Thanks for helping me through a rough time with the holidays, fellow **Dopers**! I’m gonna play a level of Warcraft and then hit the sack. Thanks! Q ---
**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 26, 2012, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-guys-and-ladies-yall-okay/645141/22 "2012-12-26T06:20:53Z")
> [@EmilyG](#): > > I’m all right. The weather here isn’t bad at the moment, as in it’s not snowing and there’s no storm, but holy hell, is it cold! Cold enough to freeze the ears off a grass donkey, as I read in an Archie comic once. I had to check your location - it’s been frigging cold here, too. We went for a walk this afternoon and froze our tushies. > [@Quasimodem](#): > > **Bmalion** , I stay away from Christmas movies these days except for “The Polar Express”. To me, they all seem pretty much formulaic, _including_ TPE (I know, don’t ask me to explain it. :)). > > Glad you’re enjoying your evening with a very good flick, though! > > Q I like “The Polar Express” too, and I don’t like Christmas movies. It’s kind of dreamy and surreal - I like that. We’re doing pretty good here - had a nice Christmas dinner at my husband’s sister’s house, are home here now with full bellies, and watching a bit of tv before hitting the hay. ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2012, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-guys-and-ladies-yall-okay/645141/23 "2012-12-26T15:52:58Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > I had to check your location - it’s been frigging cold here, too. We went for a walk this afternoon and froze our tushies. Yeah, I heard about all the snow and cold weather Alberta’s been getting. I was in Alberta once, in 2004. Wow, that was 8 and a half years ago. Here’s my favourite picture I took in Alberta (in the summer) [http://s80.beta.photobucket.com/user/muzition/media/WIYSO%20Western%20Canada%20trip%202004/w\_074\_Jun28\_2004\_sun\_mountains.jpg.html?sort=3&o=71](http://s80.beta.photobucket.com/user/muzition/media/WIYSO%20Western%20Canada%20trip%202004/w_074_Jun28_2004_sun_mountains.jpg.html?sort=3&o=71) ---
**Author:** ![peedin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peedin/32/14095_2.png) [@peedin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peedin)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2012, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-guys-and-ladies-yall-okay/645141/24 "2012-12-26T16:18:41Z")
**Quasi,** is it German tradition to take down the tree on Christmas Day? If so, when you put it up? I thought the German tradition was to put it up on Christmas Eve. Weather here is 32 F and windy. There is a bit of snow on the ground but otherwise dark and dreary. I’m at work with a food hangover. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Girlfriend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.girlfriend/32/193_2.png) [@Dr.Girlfriend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Girlfriend)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2012, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-guys-and-ladies-yall-okay/645141/25 "2012-12-26T18:44:27Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > _Polar Express_ creeps me out for some reason. I don’t know why, but the animation just looks really creepy. It creeps me out too. Nice to know I’m not the only one! Sitting here watching the snow pile up. It’s snowing sideways. Glad I don’t have anywhere to go, hope boyfriend doesn’t get stuck at work. The cats are napping and I think I shall join them soon. ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2012, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-guys-and-ladies-yall-okay/645141/26 "2012-12-26T19:26:17Z")
> [@peedin](#): > > **Quasi,** is it German tradition to take down the tree on Christmas Day? If so, when you put it up? I thought the German tradition was to put it up on Christmas Eve. > > Weather here is 32 F and windy. There is a bit of snow on the ground but otherwise dark and dreary. I’m at work with a food hangover. Put it up on Christmas Eve (24th), take it down on the 25th. Christmas Eve is the German Christmas.🙂 Q ---
**Author:** ![Lor213](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a88e4f/32.png) [@Lor213](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lor213)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2012, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-guys-and-ladies-yall-okay/645141/27 "2012-12-27T02:01:40Z")
> [@Quasimodem](#): > > Put it up on Christmas Eve (24th), take it down on the 25th. Christmas Eve is the German Christmas.🙂 > > Q What part of Germany? My grandma is German and we always take it down the day after Three Kings Day(Epiphany), she’s from near Heidelberg. ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2012, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-guys-and-ladies-yall-okay/645141/28 "2012-12-27T02:15:24Z")
Bavaria, but I didn’t mean to imply that there was any kind of a rule to our taking the tree down the next day. We just always did and continued to do so when we moved to the US. You’re right, though: That is when most Germans do take down their trees.🙂 Q ---
**Author:** ![raventhief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/raventhief/32/4_2.png) [@raventhief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raventhief)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2012, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-guys-and-ladies-yall-okay/645141/29 "2012-12-27T17:37:00Z")
Count me as one of the ones who finds The Polar Express creepy - for me it falls into the Uncanny Valley, and it just creeps me out. ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2012, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-guys-and-ladies-yall-okay/645141/30 "2012-12-27T17:40:59Z")
I never saw it myself. I prefer the obvious classics from my childhood. Although, thanks to this thread, I watched \* Die Hard\* last night! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Rushgeekgirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rushgeekgirl/32/3715_2.png) [@Rushgeekgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rushgeekgirl)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2012, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-guys-and-ladies-yall-okay/645141/31 "2012-12-27T23:38:20Z")
We didn’t just have Christmas, we had the even bigger celebration of my little girl’s eighth birthday on the 26th. It was a blast too! We had our year’s first bit of snow and she poked that lip out until I consented to a snowball fight. Everything has been pretty smooth for me for the past month. I managed to make it another year and turned 43 on the 12th. Both my older daughter and I have found a med that helps our nuttiness but doesn’t turn us into zombies so we’ve been having a great time cracking jokes and playing around lately. My little girl graduated from all of her therapies for both her language delay and the trauma therapy from getting hurt earlier this year so my days are so much more peaceful. I’m getting to where I don’t like leaving the house at all! 🙂 All in all I’m having a wonderful Christmas, thanks to several very kind people and my loving family. ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2012, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-guys-and-ladies-yall-okay/645141/32 "2012-12-28T00:31:39Z")
Good for you! My birthday is the 29th so I can dig it. 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-guys-and-ladies-yall-okay/645141.md?page=1)