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| Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2008 12:54 am Post subject: | |
| So....is Terry Lundgren suppossed to be Santa? If so, I need to get my letter into that mailbox. | |
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| Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2008 12:58 am Post subject: | |
| When customers start complaining, I'm going to tell them to stuff their complaints in that "mailbox"! | |
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| Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2008 1:01 am Post subject: | |
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Me.... I will sail away with a grey goose.
Anyways... I believe in Santa Clause. I get more presents that way! |
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To me, it's not the fact that Santa seems to totally override everything about CHRISTmas. Besides, he is completely immoral. He likes children too much (hmm,) a stalker (he sees you when you're sleeping, he knows when you're awake), a freeloader (milk and cookies,) causes wives to cheat on their husbands (mommies kiss him,) and even a murderer (killed grandma and blamed his reindeer.) And don't get me started on my theory as to why Rudolph's nose is red. He needs rehab.
To a certain degree, I find Santa semi-cute. On a serious note, I know Jesus was not born on December 25 (and seriously, the Bible gives a hint about that.) I also know the story of Santa Claus. What bugs me is how people try to be so politically correct by trying to remove every trace of God concerning that day. I've heard the executives in tower refer to it as "The Holiday." What makes it hysterical and asinine to hear is when we know what they are trying to say without using actual words. |
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| Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2008 3:30 am Post subject: | |
So are you guys going with Merry Christmas or Happy Holidays? Because either way you're bound to make someone unhappy! 
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| Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2008 7:18 am Post subject: | |
| I definitely ain't being PC about it as you can tell. I've actually disturbed some of the tower people (the executive tower above the store where the corporate offices for the east division are located,) and I don't care. I find it crazy that they are trying to avoid a certain word, and they sound dumb along the process. Seriously, they are talking about "the holiday." Well, what "holiday" is it? Is it a day between December 24 and 26? They are treating it like taboo. | |
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| Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2008 11:09 am Post subject: | |||
Well that will be nicer than where you usually tell them to "stuff it"! |
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I WISH there was a Santa, then I wouldn't have to buy so many presents at Christmas! My son know that there's no Santa. He asked me, so I told him. But my daughter still believes, and my son knows that as long as she believes, I'll keep doing the Santa gig, so he does everything he can think of to keep her from finding out that it's not real. It's kind of bad, to make kids believe in something that's not true. |
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Burger, that's really cute! I know what you mean. The thing that gets me is that they don't want to say Christmas, but they LOVE making all the money that it brings in. To me, Christmas has become way too commercialized. Last year, we had ornaments with Santa in a martini glass. Rididculous! Anyway, where I live, people are offended if you DON'T say Merry Christmas, so Macy's won't get away with "Holiday" here. Most people here won't even buy anything that says holiday in the place of Christmas. Some people got mad when Honda made that commercial that changed the words of the song to "Honda Days". |
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| Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2008 2:09 am Post subject: | |
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Okay... opening a can of worms here....
What's your FAVORITE song that they'll play to death on the store's holiday playlist? I like the 50s Vegas swingin' lounge version of "Jingle Bells". I hope it's not somebody I like, like Ella or Sarah or Etta... I need a Mai Tai after the fifth time I hear it in one day. |
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| Christmas Wrapping by the Waitresses | |
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OLD BING..songs..
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| Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2008 2:15 am Post subject: | |
| Trying to remember which one annoyed me to no end last year. We actually had such music after at least three years of this weird garbage spewing out the speakers (there was one song with a woman vocalizing an orgasm.) I hated all the music that was playing for that time of year. I had placed some songs on my iPod, but never actually listened to them because I got so sick of hearing the other stuff. And if I don't act quickly, I'll be subject to more torture of Santa the Stalker and Crackhead Rudolph. | |
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| Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2008 11:50 am Post subject: | |
| Speaking of Christmas music....when DOES it start?? No matter when customers will complain because it's too early! Now where is that Santa mailbox for those complaints! | |
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| Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2008 4:21 pm Post subject: | |
| There is a guy named Bob Rivers who does Christmas music parodies. If you can possibly get that stuff, I highly recommend them. My personal favorite is his parody of Winter Wonderland. His is called "Walking 'Round in Women's Underwear". You will never hear it the same, and people wonder why you are smiling when the song plays on the muzak. | |
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| Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2008 2:34 am Post subject: | |
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Fashion, Christmas/Holiday music gets phased in sometime next month -- like one song every 45 minutes or so.
It starts to ramp up near the end of next month. And by the week of Thanksgiving... God help us. |
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| Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2008 2:08 pm Post subject: | |
DAMN CHRISTMAS SHOP..IS JUST WEST OF ME..  just over the hotel bedding and there it is..omg..they are already complainning..while the other store had theirs up since AUGUST..  GIVE ME A BREAK 90 DAYS OF 7734 is not far
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Our shop is already open on the ninth floor, right next to the electric razors, which is right next to the post office and wig salon (hmm.) Interestingly, stuff is already on sale over there.
I think the irony with this music is that some songs have become Christmas carols merely because they mention winter. Winter Wonderland and Let It Snow have nothing to do with Christmas. My Favorite Things has nothing to do either. It was a song for a musical. The movie version used it for Fraulein Maria to calm the children down during a storm. How did that one become a Christmas carol. And oddly, after Christmas, everyone hates winter. |
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How about that song that says "SNOW....SNOW....SNOW...." that one always drives me crazy.
You have a wig salon in your store? I always knew my store was missing SOMETHING.... |
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Well let me say this..I have my neck filled of snow..So burger I just let it past over the midwest and land on the east coast..with no problems..A WIG DEPARTMENT..omg..lol..
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Do you have anymore of the Donald Trump wigs??? I could use another one. |
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is that john mayer singing about fathers being good to their daughters....... what a stupid song (after the 125th time). yeh, the lemonade song is gettin old too, but i still prefer all of them to the christmas music.. oy vey !! |
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| Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 1:34 am Post subject: | |||
um....cause it's about warm woolen mittens... and here in the great northeast anything about snow and icicles gets bundled up with christmas. go figure. |
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