# Only 24 days left in the War on Christmas!
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/only-24-days-left-in-the-war-on-christmas/604763
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [December 1, 2011, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/only-24-days-left-in-the-war-on-christmas/604763 "2011-12-01T23:43:18Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2011, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/only-24-days-left-in-the-war-on-christmas/604763/1 "2011-12-01T23:43:18Z")
What are **you** doing this year to drain the holiday of all sacred meaning? 🙂
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### Author:  [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2011, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/only-24-days-left-in-the-war-on-christmas/604763/2 "2011-12-01T23:58:55Z")
I’m sending out humorous cards that make no reference whatsoever to Jay-zus or Christianity! I associate it only with gift-giving, charitable donations and good will among men, and, where possible, women! Hell, children too! After all, it’s the winter equinox!
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### Author:  [@LeeshaJoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LeeshaJoy)
#### Post date: [December 2, 2011, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/only-24-days-left-in-the-war-on-christmas/604763/3 "2011-12-02T00:07:36Z")
I kind of want to make a T-shirt that says “I’ll Put Christ Back In Christmas When You Put Christmas Back In August.”
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### Author:  [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)
#### Post date: [December 2, 2011, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/only-24-days-left-in-the-war-on-christmas/604763/4 "2011-12-02T05:39:56Z")
Doing my damndest to celebrate the winter festival that the Xians stole to convert into their Xmas.
The sooner we get that Xian stuff OUT of our Xmas the happier the actually good people will be.
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### Author:  [@mac\_bolan00](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mac_bolan00)
#### Post date: [December 2, 2011, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/only-24-days-left-in-the-war-on-christmas/604763/5 "2011-12-02T07:13:18Z")
remind all non-jews that the correct greeting is “merry christmas,” not “happy holidays.”
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### Author:  [@Kolga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolga)
#### Post date: [December 2, 2011, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/only-24-days-left-in-the-war-on-christmas/604763/6 "2011-12-02T07:37:12Z")
> [@mac\_bolan00](#):
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> remind all non-jews that the correct greeting is “merry christmas,” not “happy holidays.”
So you don’t want a Happy Thanksgiving or a Happy New Year? “Holidays” implies more than one, which there are, not an attack on Christians.
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### Author:  [@mac\_bolan00](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mac_bolan00)
#### Post date: [December 2, 2011, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/only-24-days-left-in-the-war-on-christmas/604763/7 "2011-12-02T07:39:45Z")
not saying it was. i’m just afraid christians are getting too squeemish to say “merry” instead of “happy.”
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### Author:  [@mac\_bolan00](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mac_bolan00)
#### Post date: [December 2, 2011, 7:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/only-24-days-left-in-the-war-on-christmas/604763/8 "2011-12-02T07:43:57Z")
thanks for reminding me… off to the pit i go! [whistling]
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### Author:  [@I\_Know\_Nothing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Know_Nothing)
#### Post date: [December 2, 2011, 9:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/only-24-days-left-in-the-war-on-christmas/604763/9 "2011-12-02T09:40:47Z")
Happy Christmahaunakwanziaka to all.
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### Author:  [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)
#### Post date: [December 2, 2011, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/only-24-days-left-in-the-war-on-christmas/604763/10 "2011-12-02T13:15:04Z")
I plan to snicker quietly at the dildong who wrote a letter to the editor of our local paper complaining bitterly about people who refer to “Xmas” instead of “Christmas”, which he thinks is a plot to drain the holiday of religious meaning - not knowing that “X” has long been used as a contraction for “Christ”.
I just smile and say “Merry Holidays!”
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### Author:  [@Fuzzy\_Dunlop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fuzzy_Dunlop)
#### Post date: [December 2, 2011, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/only-24-days-left-in-the-war-on-christmas/604763/11 "2011-12-02T13:30:47Z")
I’m hoping to popularize the expression “Santa is the reason for the season”, since it makes as much sense as “Jesus is the reason for the season”. Jesus doesn’t rhyme with reason or season… you can put any damn name in and it makes as much sense. Man I hate that expression.
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### Author:  [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)
#### Post date: [December 2, 2011, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/only-24-days-left-in-the-war-on-christmas/604763/12 "2011-12-02T13:42:47Z")
How about a T-sirt that reads
**Put the Saturn back in Saturnalia**
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### Author:  [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)
#### Post date: [December 2, 2011, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/only-24-days-left-in-the-war-on-christmas/604763/13 "2011-12-02T13:52:15Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#):
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> I plan to snicker quietly at the dildong who wrote a letter to the editor of our local paper complaining bitterly about people who refer to “Xmas” instead of “Christmas”, which he thinks is a plot to drain the holiday of religious meaning - not knowing that “X” has long been used as a contraction for “Christ”.
XOXO
Jesus Santa Jesus Santa
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### Author:  [@Tamarin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamarin)
#### Post date: [December 2, 2011, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/only-24-days-left-in-the-war-on-christmas/604763/14 "2011-12-02T19:08:27Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#):
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> How about a T-sirt that reads
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> **Put the Saturn back in Saturnalia**
I am \*\*so \*\*making that into a cross stitch sampler.
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### Author:  [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)
#### Post date: [December 3, 2011, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/only-24-days-left-in-the-war-on-christmas/604763/15 "2011-12-03T03:32:29Z")
Planning my outfit for the soiree Hanukkah Zombie’s throwing.
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### Author:  [@j666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j666)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2011, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/only-24-days-left-in-the-war-on-christmas/604763/16 "2011-12-04T04:50:32Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#):
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> How about a T-sirt that reads
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> **Put the Saturn back in Saturnalia**
I’ll order three - where’s your website?
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### Author:  [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2011, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/only-24-days-left-in-the-war-on-christmas/604763/17 "2011-12-04T05:21:06Z")
> [@LeeshaJoy](#):
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> I kind of want to make a T-shirt that says “I’ll Put Christ Back In Christmas When You Put Christmas Back In August.”
As a big fan of August–please, I beg of you, DO NOT DO THIS.
Give it to February. February needs a holiday really really bad. I mean a real one, not Groundhog’s Valentine.
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### Author:  [@j666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j666)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2011, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/only-24-days-left-in-the-war-on-christmas/604763/18 "2011-12-04T13:14:01Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#):
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> What are **you** doing this year to drain the holiday of all sacred meaning? 🙂
I am going to fill my house with eurpoean pagan symbols of belief in the return of life in the Spring and even older symbols celebrating the return of the light with lengthening days.
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### Author:  [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2011, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/only-24-days-left-in-the-war-on-christmas/604763/19 "2011-12-04T21:59:59Z")
> [@j666](#):
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> I’ll order three - where’s your website?
Haven’t got one, I’m afraid. You can make your own.
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### Author:  [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2011, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/only-24-days-left-in-the-war-on-christmas/604763/20 "2011-12-04T22:03:08Z")
I’ve been watching a lot of porn in my ongoing campaign to put the X back in Xmas.
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