Saturday, December 22, 2018

Look, Trevor, Let's Face It. We All Know That Christmas Is a Big Commercial Racket!


It's run by a big eastern syndicate, you know. Let's see just how apt Lucy Van Pelt's word's were!


Well, we have a newbie commenter with Trevor/Sarah and she gets to be the star of this caption, as my soon-to-be former boyfriend. I saw the photo and I just couldn't resist captioning it. Just love the look and it inspired the story I whipped up. I've had conversations with friends over the years about how advertising has crept into every crevice of Christmas, and people don't realize how much it has influenced everything about the way it is celebrated.

At least half was stolen, or appropriated from, other religions, and the other have is stuff we've picked up over the years culturally through ethnic groups or commercialism. It's why I really laugh when I see the hole WAR on CHRISTMAS that is kicked up every year. My GF is a non-religious pagan / wiccan type, and she just LOVES the whole secular ball of wax that is the American standard Christmas business. Getting family together, sending cards to remind others you care, giving gifts and visiting loved ones, eating lots of treats, holiday songs, decorating a tree and filling stockings .. anything that warms your heart and your spirit is right up her alley. Put a Lego Batman in the manger for all she cares about the religious aspect of it.

So that was my point here with this caption and I hope it connects. Christmas is so much more now than just some religion's possible messiah being born. And THAT is the true meaning of Christmas, Charlie Brown .. not Linus spewing off the nativity scene from the Gospel of Luke. It's many different cultures, backgrounds, and wealth feeling a sense of good will towards others, as they draw their own friends and family closer before the cold reality of the harsh winter draws near, regardless of how the yearly December rituals came to be.

See you tomorrow night for another caption!


As another blog exclusive, please let me know what you think! Also, I think I'll do an AMA over the next few days as respond to all the questions right around Boxing Day .. December 26 .. so if you have anything you'd like to know about Dee, fire away in the comments!

7 comments:

  1. This one was fun Dee, I like the polar bears it;s the panda's that I have a problem with...so as long as there's no pandas we're OK!!!
    Love
    Kaaren

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    1. That sounds vaguely racist, if animals could have a race LOL

      I think what you are saying though is that Panda's barely ever have interest in sex, and how can you trust someone who doesn't like sex? Right?

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    2. Well lets just say that I was at a party and had a few too many drinks and there were some Pandas there and well I don't like to think about it....
      And yeah....how can you trust animals that don't enjoy lots of sex....other than eating what else do they have to do?
      I just don't trust them...I guess you could say I'm pandaphobic!!!
      Love
      Kaaren

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  2. I saw a cartoon yesterday that showed a contemporary protester with a "Keep Christ in Christmas" sign, along with a medieval protester with a "Keep Christ out of our Secular, Pagan, Solstice Holiday." Made me smile.

    As to the caption, I love it, and not just because I'm a reformed Coke-a-holic who has replaced her addiction with Coke Zero. I'm going to go shake every bottle in the house and see what happens. If it works, I'll let you know! :)

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    1. I'm not good with caffeine so I tend to drink Sprite, Sierra Mist, or 7up if I imbibe soda. Trust me, I am a pretty amped up person in real life and don't need caffeine to make me anymore AWAKE.

      I've been described before as a cross between Henry Rollins and Bobcat Goldthwait. I will not deny that there are definite aspects to that assertion. LOL

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  3. Congrats to the former Trevor. It's refreshing (much like that coke) to read that there are other people that know the origins of a lot of our holidays.
    As for the cap I really enjoyed this one and the experience will be a bearable one for sarah...(crickets chirp)
    Side note I probably should drink more coke if those are possible results.

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    1. Do they make normal Coca Cola without the caffeine? I would probably like to have some of that if they still make it. I think the only Coke without caffeine is the Diet version, which has artificial sweeteners I have issues with.

      Then again, perhaps I might be able to put up with a headache or two until I can get that change to happen .. and maybe not even drink it considering it was splashed ONTO him! Maybe we need to get the bottle that says "GENIE" on it instead?

      Glad you enjoyed the caption!

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