# I took my Christmas lights down.... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 27, 2003, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-took-my-christmas-lights-down/215633 "2003-11-27T22:59:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ILikeMadonna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8baadc/32.png) [@ILikeMadonna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ILikeMadonna)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2003, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-took-my-christmas-lights-down/215633/1 "2003-11-27T22:59:49Z")
because I’ve lost the urge for Christmas and I hate how they looked, and our power went out. ---
**Author:** ![quiltguy154](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/ad7895/32.png) [@quiltguy154](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/quiltguy154)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2003, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-took-my-christmas-lights-down/215633/2 "2003-11-27T23:37:12Z")
“…and one sequence blinked faster than the other and…” ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2003, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-took-my-christmas-lights-down/215633/3 "2003-11-27T23:40:56Z")
…and I realized I was Jewish and… ---
**Author:** ![alice\_in\_wonderland](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alice_in_wonderland/32/176_2.png) [@alice\_in\_wonderland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alice_in_wonderland)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2003, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-took-my-christmas-lights-down/215633/4 "2003-11-28T00:00:10Z")
…and the blinking lights gave me a seizure and … ---
**Author:** ![DeVena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dec6dc/32.png) [@DeVena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeVena)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2003, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-took-my-christmas-lights-down/215633/5 "2003-11-28T00:08:26Z")
…and one light goes out, they ALL go out and… ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2003, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-took-my-christmas-lights-down/215633/6 "2003-11-28T00:12:53Z")
…and the Gamma Radiation they gave off is making me mean …green…and ANGRY!!! **BOSDA** SMASH!!! ---
**Author:** ![Horseflesh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horseflesh/32/7502_2.png) [@Horseflesh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horseflesh)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2003, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-took-my-christmas-lights-down/215633/7 "2003-11-28T01:33:50Z")
…and I scraped my knuckles when my hand slipped trying to change the string during a rainstorm and I got even more angry and… ---
**Author:** ![Sylkyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/da6949/32.png) [@Sylkyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylkyn)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2003, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-took-my-christmas-lights-down/215633/8 "2003-11-28T01:37:11Z")
…and I couldn’t get the damn things to twinkle anyway, even after I checked all 20,000 of the stupid things and… ---
**Author:** ![MacSpon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/34f0e0/32.png) [@MacSpon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacSpon)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2003, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-took-my-christmas-lights-down/215633/9 "2003-11-28T02:56:24Z")
… and once, last year, I realised that the blinking pattern was kind of hypnotic and then suddenly I realised that I’d been watching them for nearly seven hours straight and I had the oddest urge to go out and buy a llama … ---
**Author:** ![Homebrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Homebrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homebrew)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2003, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-took-my-christmas-lights-down/215633/10 "2003-11-28T03:17:02Z")
… and the llama wasn’t house-broken and was ill-tempered and pulled all the lights down anyway … ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2003, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-took-my-christmas-lights-down/215633/11 "2003-11-28T03:20:52Z")
… and besides, the city let me know that the traffic jams my displays caused in previous years were really stretching the budget for directing traffic through my neighborhood … ---
**Author:** ![Eats\_Crayons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Eats\_Crayons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eats_Crayons)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2003, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-took-my-christmas-lights-down/215633/12 "2003-11-28T04:10:10Z")
… and the airplanes mistakenly trying to land in my yard were too damn loud… ---
**Author:** ![IrreverentTone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@IrreverentTone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IrreverentTone)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2003, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-took-my-christmas-lights-down/215633/13 "2003-11-28T04:10:15Z")
…and the center bulb was the wrong shade of red and the queer eye guys were gonna be appalled… ---
**Author:** ![Capcha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/82dd89/32.png) [@Capcha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capcha)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2003, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-took-my-christmas-lights-down/215633/14 "2003-11-28T04:27:48Z")
…and it was better anyhoo than to have to feed the whole hypnotized mob that gathers everynight in the front yard, looking at those blinking lights… ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Ellis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2003, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-took-my-christmas-lights-down/215633/15 "2003-11-28T04:31:08Z")
…and George Bush is evil because he didn’t leave me any turkey and because this one light bulb is trying to hypnotize my dog… ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Zero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c4cdca/32.png) [@Saint\_Zero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Zero)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2003, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-took-my-christmas-lights-down/215633/16 "2003-11-28T04:48:22Z")
…and I was tired of the monkeys trying to decipher what the blinking lights _meant_, even though I’d told them the pattern came to me in a dream… ---
**Author:** ![it\_sjustme](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/da6949/32.png) [@it\_sjustme](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/it_sjustme)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2003, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-took-my-christmas-lights-down/215633/17 "2003-11-28T06:01:25Z")
…and I realized that I’d put them on my neighbor’s house instead of mine by mistake… ---
**Author:** ![SanguineSpider](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@SanguineSpider](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanguineSpider)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2003, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-took-my-christmas-lights-down/215633/18 "2003-11-28T07:17:51Z")
…and I wanted to use the lights for GOOD and not EVIL! Where _is_ Aquaman anyway?? ---
**Author:** ![DrMemory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/977dab/32.png) [@DrMemory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrMemory)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2003, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-took-my-christmas-lights-down/215633/19 "2003-11-28T12:59:44Z")
… and I had to Re-Knot the entire string into a giant ball before I shoved them back in the dusty box to be put in the attic… ---
**Author:** ![Horseflesh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horseflesh/32/7502_2.png) [@Horseflesh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horseflesh)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2003, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-took-my-christmas-lights-down/215633/20 "2003-11-28T13:43:38Z")
…and I figured hey, why not poke these lights through a sweater, hook 'em up to a battery pack and annoy the hell out of holiday shoppers by looking better than they do… [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-took-my-christmas-lights-down/215633.md?page=2)