# Nothing says "Christmas" like ... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 12, 2006, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nothing-says-christmas-like/383759 "2006-12-12T00:46:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Sunrazor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sunrazor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunrazor)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2006, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nothing-says-christmas-like/383759/41 "2006-12-13T19:09:13Z")
Colorful dirigibles anchored to the ground with web straps. One house here in town looks like the Macey’s Thanksgiving Day Parade crash-landed in the front yard. It even has a 9-foot inflatable Grinch. Oh, and nothing celebrates the birth of Christendom’s Lord and Savior Jesus Christ like a wire polar bear on skis! Or a pointy, fur-trimmed hat in Denver Bronco logos and colors – yeah, that has “virgin birth in Bethlehem” written all over it! Then there’s the modest home with absolutely nothing in the front yard except a hand-painted plywood cutout of the Nativity. Illuminated by a single floodlight. Oh, wait, no … that really does say Christmas. ---
**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:** [December 13, 2006, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nothing-says-christmas-like/383759/42 "2006-12-13T21:13:05Z")
An older large farm house visible from the interstate, has an electric candle in each window, and that is a nice decoration. ---
**Author:** ![Gala\_Matrix\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4da419/32.png) [@Gala\_Matrix\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gala_Matrix_Fire)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2006, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nothing-says-christmas-like/383759/43 "2006-12-13T22:59:30Z")
[QUOTE=GrizzRich] Right in downtown Willoughby Ohio, there is currently a nativity scene (put in place by the Knights of Columbus, I believe) Immediately BEHIND the manger scene, is a permanent War Memorial Monument. Part of this Memorial is a large CANNON. The muzzle of which points directly at, and is less than ten feet from, the back of the manger. I have a picture of it and keep thinking that the caption should read… _the Romans were tipped off as to the whereabouts of this ‘saviour’_ [/QUOTE] Could you get a picture of that and post it here? ---
**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 14, 2006, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nothing-says-christmas-like/383759/44 "2006-12-14T03:43:29Z")
[QUOTE=Harmonious Discord] You do have other decorations up so it’s not as bad a situation. You still may want the green bulb to be sure. 😉 [/QUOTE] The red bulb is actually our only decoration. I’m starting to come around to my husband’s way of thinking - maybe a single red bulb as Christmas decorations isn’t really the way to go. ---
**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:** [December 14, 2006, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nothing-says-christmas-like/383759/45 "2006-12-14T04:32:31Z")
A red bulb on the porch is the Christmas equivalent of the neighbor with a yellow bug light in the summer. ---
**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:** [December 14, 2006, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nothing-says-christmas-like/383759/46 "2006-12-14T04:35:28Z")
A red bulb on the porch is the Christmas equivalent of the neighbor with a yellow bug light for independance day. Like can you shut off the light dude. It ruins the fireworks we came to see. ---
**Author:** ![Rhubarb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/59ef9b/32.png) [@Rhubarb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhubarb)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2006, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nothing-says-christmas-like/383759/47 "2006-12-14T04:49:25Z")
I haven’t been there this Christmas, but a year or two ago I did a project in the small Texas town of Comanche. On the main street there is a mexican restaurant called IIRC, El Sombrero. They have a large fiberglass teepee in a cactus garden in front of the restaurant. For Christmas, they placed a lighted plastic snowman in the cactus garden. My first thought on seeing this was that there was some definite cultural confusion going on here. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nothing-says-christmas-like/383759.md?page=2)