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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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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“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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And “Hunny” is the label on the honey pot.
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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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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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“Technically “hunny” is how Winnie-the-Pooh wrote honey and not the name of a character.”
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Probably around 1991, when I was two years old, and the Winnie the Pooh Christmas special came out.
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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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McMansions! How do people fill these places?
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McMansions are convenient ego-storing facilities, most of the dwellers use up the whole space anyway.
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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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Ok. What’s the connection between Ayn Rand, Clarissa’s favorite philosopher, and Walt Disney?
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who’s Clarissas favorite philosopher again? That Slovene guy?
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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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Gesundzeitgeist. 🙂
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Is it Bauman now or has his ship sailed too?
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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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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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