Thursday, December 07, 2006

In the spirit now...

Per Mausi's suggestion, I gave it a try:

You Are Vixen
Sexy and sultry, you're the one all the other reindeer dream about.
Why You're Naughty: That fur pulling spat you got into with Dancer over Santa.
Why You're Nice: Because even when you're nice, you're still delightfully naughty!


Why does this amuse me so? Basically, because of question 5, see for yourself, here:
Finally, what's your favorite part of Christmas?
Getting snowed in with a hottie
Buttered rum, winter martinis, schnapps
The mistletoe
The hijinks of holiday parties
-->Switching up nativity scenes for fun
Your cute little Christmas outfit
Eating Santa's milk and cookies... oops!
Being a "secret santa"
Waking up to presents


Everyone knows the correct answer is the one I italicized. What? What do you mean people don't do that where you come from?? I've already commented upon the nicer side of religious freedom in the Philly area. In general, I find that people from the Philly area tend to be brutally honest (no wonder i can live in Deutschland so easily!) as well as bitterly sarcastic in humor, as evidenced by the following.

Each and every year the town puts up a traditional manger scene alongside a menorah in Memorial Park, and without fail, baby Jesus gets restless and disappears for a few days. Do I think the instigator is trying to make a negative statement about Christian religions? No, not really. I think it's a bored kid pulling a prank, and probably one from the Catholic school that I attended, no doubt. Usually baby Jesus would either reappear unharmed back in the manger, or perhaps elsewhere in town where he would be hanging out, also unharmed and all would be forgiven.

However, in 2004 NBC sent the cameras out, if you have broadband, check it out. http://www.nbc10.com/video/3997638/index.html Now we're all outraged and the baby does not reappear like usual. The the CatholicLeague picked up on the story and listed it in their 'anti-Catholic' report alongside incidents that appear to be quite negative such as people purposely destroying religious symbols such as setting fire to items in churches or leaving anti-semitic graffiti in a Temple.
What they fail to report on, however, is the past travel history of baby Jesus. They also fail to mention the year pranksters replaced the white baby with a black one and the conundrum that caused. There were whispered discussions on the topic instead of the loud complaints when he would be gone. What to say exactly? It was a perfectly acceptable manger baby, akin to the one previously there, just slightly different in appearance.

So all of this writing due to one goofy blog filler.

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