There are a lot of regular posters left out of the cliquish SDMD Mistletoe thread. Now, while the Touchy Feely thing is so not me, and I have no interest in my name appearing, I am sad that some people who have taken the time to reply to my questions are not there because I know they reply to a lot of other people as well.
Thank you and a Merry Christmas to Spoofe Bo Diddly, Sofa King, ArchiveGuy and all the people who have said something to me (positive or negative) over the last months. Especially thank you to the posters in my Experiencing snowstorms and blizzards thread.
If this thread has any further purpose perhaps it would be to add other names omitted from Mistletoe threads.
Have you ever seen mistletoe? Ugly, ugly plant. Which is why they dye it bright green and atatch plastic berries to it for Christmas. If you saw some growing in your yard, you’d throw it in the trash like it was some ugly parasitic weed. Which it is.
Yeah, and there’s no point to it anyway, because once you find yourself under it, everyone in the room just kinda pretends they don’t see you there to avoid having to kiss you.
::cricket noises::
::JAG looks around nervously::
::chuckles hesitantly::
Heh…heh…just kidding guys. People always jump on the chance to kiss me under the mistletoe…heh.
You’re right about mistletoe; ugly, nasty stuff. As a kid I thought holly was mistletoe, mostly because you see a lot more of it and it’s pretty. (Have some holly bushes growing outside my window, as a matter of fact.) Dark, glossy green leaves year-round, bright red berries…
And then I saw some mistletoe. Bleeech! Mangy lookin’ leaves with disgusting, rotted looking, waxy bleached out blobs attached. What a letdown. It may have long folk tradition, but it’s about as appealing as getting kissed under a bundle of skunk cabbage.
So here’s a warm smile–under a holly branch–to my fellow Dopers.
I’m pretty sure that’ll get you into any clique in the industrialized world.
Since I, too, was ignored in the mistletoe thread, I offer a hearty platonic handshake to everyone listed in that thread and a hot, passionate kiss to all those who were also disregarded.
DRY,
I guess most people didn’t think it worth comment, this is a pretty sharp bunch, I’m sure it was understood. Thank you for the compliment, though.
Isn’t it usually Baldur? He took his mistletoe in the eye rather than orally, IIRC. The Norse of old were a violent people, though they had almost nothing to do with Druids.
