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Originally Posted by SoCalStu:
A holiday card for all...
Floyd Cramer at the piano:
Around my place we're not afraid to say Merry CHRISTmas and Happy New Year.
Ol' Floyd could make "Happy Birthday" sound like a funeral dirge.
EdKing
Didn't mean to offend anyone. It really wasn't for Christmas... just good wishes for 2013. Hope your's is great.
I'm with Ed.
We celebrate birthdays, Easter, Thanks Giving, AND CHRISTMAS, among many other individual days/dates of celebration.
I celebrate Christmas, too, BUT there's certainly nothing wrong with expressing "Happy Holidays" wishes to all since this season of the year encompasses many holidays for folks of a variety of faiths, or even no faith at all, who are represented by our forum membership.
It's the spirit of the expressed sentiment that should count, not the precise words used. If that doesn't suit you, keep your fingers off the keyboard.
Originally Posted by Allan Miller:
I celebrate Christmas, too, BUT there's certainly nothing wrong with expressing "Happy Holidays" wishes to all since this season of the year encompasses many holidays for folks of a variety of faiths, or even no faith at all, who are represented by our forum membership.
It's the spirit of the expressed sentiment that should count, not the precise words used. If that doesn't suit you, keep your fingers off the keyboard.
Thank you, Allan. Have a Merry Christmas. My holiday period ended last night. (Hanukah) I got a GORGEOUS 726 with 2426 tender.
Originally Posted by techie:
Originally Posted by Allan Miller:
I celebrate Christmas, too, BUT there's certainly nothing wrong with expressing "Happy Holidays" wishes to all since this season of the year encompasses many holidays for folks of a variety of faiths, or even no faith at all, who are represented by our forum membership.
It's the spirit of the expressed sentiment that should count, not the precise words used. If that doesn't suit you, keep your fingers off the keyboard.
Thank you, Allan. Have a Merry Christmas. My holiday period ended last night. (Hanukah) I got a GORGEOUS 726 with 2426 tender.
In the spirit of the Holidays. techie, I hope your Hanukah was the best ever, and I remember a Christmas many, many years ago when I got my 726. The family gathering and dinner was at my Grandparents, and I had to take it with me.
EdKing
Happy Hanukah Techie, and a Merry Christmas to all as well.
I celebrate Christmas also but normally offer the "Happy Holidays" greeting to those I am not familiar with. I never understood the objection people have to it. It is a rather self-centered objection at that, assuming that everyone else celebrates the same holidays or traditions that they do. I prefer a more inclusive greeting, taking into account that we are a very heterogenious society.
Health and prosperity to all in the coming year. Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukah, Happy Quanza. To sum it up best wishes to all.
If I'm relatively sure people are celebrating Christmas, I say "Merry Christmas.". If I know they do Hanukah or Yule, I'll wish them a happy that. Otherwise, I'll say Happy Holidays. No matter what, as we head to the shortest night of the year, we're pretty much all waiting for the Return of the Light. Whatever you're having, have a good one...and in our house, it's Merry CHRISTmas 
Rudolf the red-nosed diesel...
Merry Christmas to all and a Happy New Year!
Rusty
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