Christmas Decorations

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Clarissa

December 20, 2014

Christmas decorations are so popular that they are seen from the outer space. I love driving around and looking at the inventive ways people decorate.

I don’t know who Hunny is but he is surely having fun.

This one looks more imposing in real life:

From a distance, it looks like a big, pulsating phallic symbol.

Here is our local mansion:

We couldn’t come closer but I wanted you to see how our rich people live. The owner of the mansion has a lumber shop in town. He built all of the newer houses around here, including mine. Seriously, if anyone deserves a mansion, it’s this guy. It always makes me very happy to see this huge building. Although I like my own house more.

Angels and nativity scenes are popular:

The most curious decoration is this antique car covered with Christmas lights:

I wonder what these people do with the car between the Christmas seasons. Do they keep it specifically for those occasions?

They all look a lot brighter and prettier in real life. Now all we need is some snow.

Merry Christmas!

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18 responses to “Christmas Decorations”

musteryou

December 20, 2014

I definitely have never seen these things from space. Also I’m quite warm these days, so global warming is probably True.

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ladyleahjane

December 20, 2014

“Hunny” is actually the Disney version of Winnie-the-Pooh (Did you ever see the Винни-Пух Soviet cartoons when you were growing up?), he’s probably one of the most popular Disney characters out there for Christmas decorations.

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1. paranoid
  
  December 20, 2014
  
  And “Hunny” is the label on the honey pot.
  
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2. cliff arroyo
  
  December 21, 2014
  
  content note [pedantic twittery] Technically “hunny” is how Winnie-the-Pooh wrote honey and not the name of a character.
  
  The association of Winnie-the-Pooh with Christmas is a new one for me, when did that happen?
  
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  1. Good Enough Professor
    
    December 21, 2014
    
    Every licensed character that can wear a santa hat (or bear a holiday greeting of some kind) gets sold in that form during the holiday season. No intrinsic association is necessary.
    
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  2. Clarissa
    
    December 21, 2014
    
    “Technically “hunny” is how Winnie-the-Pooh wrote honey and not the name of a character.”
    
    Ah! Got it! OK, that explains everything. 🙂 I really thought it was a bear with a Muslim name.
    
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  3. ladyleahjane
    
    December 21, 2014
    
    Probably around 1991, when I was two years old, and the Winnie the Pooh Christmas special came out.
    
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    1. cliff arroyo
      
      December 21, 2014
      
      Okay, that makes sense. I totally missed it (I was in the US for Xmas 1991 but would not have noticed the special in question because I was probably doding yet another screening of It’s a wonderful life – a great movie spoiled through over-exposure).
      
      There’s nothing like a successful xmas special for making a north american xmas icon. What martyrdom does for saints, xmas specials do for marketed personalities.
      
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Ol.

December 21, 2014

McMansions! How do people fill these places?

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1. aglaonika
  
  December 21, 2014
  
  McMansions are convenient ego-storing facilities, most of the dwellers use up the whole space anyway.
  
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Vic Crain

December 21, 2014

Winnie-the-Pooh is the A. A. Milne character introduced in 1926, around the same time that Disney introduced The Mouse. Pooh belongs to a young man named Christopher Robin, a pre-schooler or 1st grader with typical spelling for that age. Doesn’t honey sound like it ought to be spelt as “huney”?

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N G

December 21, 2014

Ok. What’s the connection between Ayn Rand, Clarissa’s favorite philosopher, and Walt Disney?

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1. cliff arroyo
  
  December 21, 2014
  
  who’s Clarissas favorite philosopher again? That Slovene guy?
  
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  1. Clarissa
    
    December 21, 2014
    
    Everybody missed the boat: I have already moved on to an entirely different favorite philosopher. I go through favorite philosophers like Kleenex. 🙂
    
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    1. Jones
      
      December 23, 2014
      
      Gesundzeitgeist. 🙂
      
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    2. cliff arroyo
      
      December 23, 2014
      
      Is it Bauman now or has his ship sailed too?
      
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      1. Clarissa
        
        December 23, 2014
        
        Bauman is OK but I have transferred my affections to the amazing Philip Bobbitt: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Bobbitt
        
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N G

December 23, 2014

Ok. What’s the connection between Ayn Rand, Clarissa’s former favorite philosopher, and Walt Disney?

Answer.

In 1936, Ayn Rand wrote the dystopian novel, Anthem, in which she imagined a future where even the word “I” was banned in a super egalitarian society and people had numbers instead of names. She wrote a letter to Walt Disney in 1946 in which she requested that he produce an animated version of the novel. Uncle Walt didn’t; however, there is a Randian quote on a wall of the Epcot Center in Disney World – “Throughout the centuries there were men who took the first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision.”

Since this seems to be a thread on children’s books, suppose A.R. was a critic on them.

Example:

“Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory”

An excellent movie. The obviously unfit individuals are winnowed out through a series of entrepreneurial tests and, in the end; an enterprising young boy receives a factory. I believe more movies should be made about enterprising young boys who are given factories. —Three and a half stars. (Half a star off for the grandparents, who are sponging off the labor of Charlie and his mother. If Grandpa Joe can dance, Grandpa Joe can work.)

http://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/ayn-rand-reviews-childrens-movies?intcid=mod-latest

And a bonus. Ayn Rand Christmas cards

http://www.alternet.org/culture/happy-selfish-christmas-21-ayn-rand-holiday-cards

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