Happy Holidays!
Might ought to make that "Merry Christmas," so I don't get added to O'Reilly's list of far-left, progressive secularist hate groups fighting the war on Christmas. Best wishes to everyone, and many thanks for reading my cranky posts!
posted by Kevin Carson | 8:51 PM
11 Comments:
Io Saturnalia! There's a winter holiday anyone but the clenched O'Reillys can enjoy.
Keep the cranky posts coming in twenty-o-six.
There's also something to be said for Festivus. I suspect that's what the Bushies really celebrate behind closed doors; they strike me as a family with a lot of issues that cry out for a wrestling match beneath the pole.
And you can count on it, Sheldon!
Santa gave me Studies in Mutualist Political Economy! I've been a good, if somewhat wonky, boy this year.
- Josh
Me too!
can't wait to dig in...
I hope you both like it!
"Might ought"? Never mind that you are a useful idiot helping the anti-Christmassers (I have trouble finding a Christmas Card these days), you don't even speak the King's English (named after a proper descriptive lexicographer, not a would be brainwasher like that prescriptive Webster fellow).
Anyway, you might like to give this card some consideration, considered as a sign of the times.
"Might ought" might could be just the right way to say it :-)
I think that construction is unique to the Ozarks.
Yes, we even had a descriptive lexicographer here in the Ozarks once. He had a real purty mouth, as I recall.
A somewhat tangential point (for lo, I am a master of somewhat tangential points) -- "Christmas" was originally not one day but a twelve-day festival (remember "The Twelve Days of Christmas"), stretching from the evening of Dec. 25th ("First Night") and the daytime of Dec. 26th ("First Day") to the evening of Jan. 5th ("Twelfth Night") and the daytime of Jan. 6th ("Twelfth Day").
Another interesting tangent:
In this part of the country, up until the late 19th century there were still some old-time hill folk who (like the Russian Orthodox) refused to make their peace with the new-style calendar (the British dominions switched over sometime in the 1750s, I think). They still went around saying that Jan. 6 was "the real Christmas," and celebrating Easter at some wildly different time.
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