Origin of the flipped "M" Christmas tale?

General Questions
#1

My pastor told this story on Sunday, but to be fair, he did not claim it to be true. He received it in an email and I thought I’d go and find out whether it is true or not.

WARNING: GLURGE AND CHEESINESS BELOW :slight_smile:

Well, here is a copy of it I found on the internet:

ChristWas Love

Basically, a kid holds his letter upside down and the “m” in Christmas becomes a w and changes the meaning.

I am interested if it is true, but I’m equally interested in its origin. I can’t find anything on Snopes and my “google-fu” is not good enough to find its origin.

Anyone know if it is true(unlikely)?

Anyone know the origin of this glurgy tale?

#2

http://www.ecatholic2000.com/ezine/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=123&Itemid=42

This woman put a ©2002 on the story.

She thinks she wrote it. I am not going to challenge her claim. So she’s the origin.

#3

Anyone know what kind of magazine that site is? Fictional religious stories or something?

#4

The author of the linked piece, Candy Chand, claims to be trhew author of the story, dating to 1999, and has even defended it as a copyrighted piece when it has been blogged and glurged arounf the internet:

http://www.murietaonline.com/forum/f24/candy-chand-victim-plagiarism-4189/

#5

Thanks, tomndebb.

Great research and great answer. I guess this one is solved.