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Comments on Tuesday 30 November 2004:
Benhimself wrote:
It's scary how quickly things become Christmas the second Thanksgiving dies down. There are already elaborate decorations up on my street, and the stores and restaurants are playing carols as we speak.

It's interesting what a huge chunk of time Christmas conceptually takes up every year. Before it, you have all the anticipation and advertising specials and such, and afterwards, the people too lazy to take all the stuff down for several weeks.

The only logical conclusion to all this is that in the future, there will be only Christmas. New Year's Eve and Thanksgiving can only stand against it for so long, and afterwards, it'll be up to Halloween and Valentine's Day, and those two just aren't prepared!
Which produced a mental image for me that I was sufficiently pleased with the writing of that I thought it worth putting here.
Thanksgiving and New Year's Eve finally collapsing under the relentless assault of Christmas, its dark shadow rolling swiftly across the year, breaking briefly against the brave last stand of Halloween and Valentine's Day, natural enemies teamed up for once against this common foe, to no avail. The relentless treads of Christmas's gigantic death machines crush all resistance in minutes, roll on to effortlessly consume my birthday moments later, and eventually sweep over the last line of defence, the summer holidays.

If only Halloween and Valentine's Day had been willing to join the fight earlier, joining forces with Thanksgiving and New Year's Eve, perhaps it would have turned out better. But these things are always obvious in hindsight. They thought they could stay out of it. They thought Thanksgiving was the superpower. Tell that to the summer reindeer.
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Kilikina
I'm afraid that in California, Christmas decorations and sale were up four days before Thanksgiving. New Years is hardly even noticed, it lost it's touch after the millenia.

Zloduska
If you replace "Halloween" and "Valentine's Day" with "United States" and "England", and then "Thanksgiving" and "New Year's Eve" respectively with "Spanish Republic" and "France" in the last paragraph, you could easily be talking about World War II.

Nameless
The image I got was more along the lines of Christmas, bloblike B-movie descendant in a sickly color of forest green, rolling across Thanksgivingsville and Newyearsburg, the screaming masses fleeing from its inexorable appetite. There would, of course, be a deep, slow, evil laughter, and it would jiggle a little with sheer malice as it moves on from the decimated wreckage to Valentine's City and Halloweenopolis.

But that's just me.

Also, in Texas, the first lights went up around October 15th.

Khandi
In Canada, Thankgiving falls on the 2nd monday in October so Hallowe'en is the first bastion of defense against Christmas.

At my house, and lately at my friends houses, Hallowe'en is mounting an offensive. Every Nov. 1st we take the strings of Jack O'Lantern lights out of the windows, put up the Christmas tree, then put the pumpkin lights on the tree. We left the skeleton hanging from our eaves, but we put a Santa hat and makeshift Santa suit on him. When our neighbours ask if a skeletal Santa is appropriate, we say it was a gift from Tim Burton. The cardboard Grim Reaper on our door is now wielding a large plastic candy cane in lieu of the more traditional scythe. If Santa were real, he'd likely be too creeped out to visit.

Tessa
Nightmare Before Christmas 2: Santa Strikes Back.

Nameless
(Nameless was Spammityspam, myself. Gah, why can I not remember to put something in the name slot? Why? Why??)

Hee, Khandi, I like the Grim Reaper. My newspaper advisor has begun wearing reindeer-horn deelyboppers, but that's the only thing more awesome than you candy-cane weilding Grim Reaper I can think of.

~*White Fox*~
hehe Nightmare before Christmas part 2: Santa strikes Back would be enjoyable to watch...when it comes out give me the first copy!....*mad insane laughter*oh....sorry...*turns and walks away leaving a black rose in my place*
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