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| CHRISTMAS QUIZ! |
| Thursday, December 15, 2005 |
These are soo fun.
The “winter program” at Ridgeway Elementary School In Dodgeville, Wisconsin, changed the lyrics of the Christmas carol “Silent Night” to the more inclusive “Cold in the Night.” (“Cold in the night, no one in sight, winter winds whirl and bite.” ) After this success, the program’s next step will obviously be:
a) Changing “O Holy Night” to “Uh-oh! Wholly night!” a song about a lunar eclipse
b) Singing “O Little Town of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.”
c) A song celebrating the comeback of the American auto industry, “Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Ford.”
d) A ditty about hoping for snow at the Panama Canal, “I’m dreaming of a white isthmus.”
The modern name for Christmas trees is now:
a) Giving trees
b) Trees of color
c) Seasonal conifers
d) Inclusion bushes
e) Tall lit-up flora
f) Those pointy green things with needles and lights
Some schools have ruled that red and green cookies cannot be brought into class in December because the color combination strongly suggests the divisive sectarian feast day of Christmas. Therefore"
a) Red cookies may be brought to school. Green ones too. But, please, not on the same day
b) A fruit bowl containing just pears and cherries is a serious constitutional matter and should be reported immediately to the ACLU, care of the Christmas erasure desk.
c) In December, the San Francisco 49er may not be shown playing the New York Jets, except on black-and-white TV sets.
d) All traffic lights must be turned off until January 1.
The three wise men in the Nativity scene are objectionable because
a) They fail the multicultural test--though one is black, neither of the other two is a disabled lesbian, wiccan or vegan.
b) “Wise Men” should be “Persons of Wisdom”
c) Describing the first people to come to see Jesus as “wise” implies that idiots can’t become Christians, which experience tells us is just not so.
Christians believe Jesus came down to earth and made himself human in order to encourage
a) Consumer confidence
b) Season’s greetings
c) A festive period between bowl games
d) His birth scene to be surrounded by plastic reindeer, elves and court-pleasing woodland creatures
e) Frenzied end-of-year gift giving
f) Religious songs that are easily converted into weather songs in Wisconsin
g) The ACLU Christmas-erasure desk
It’s beginning to look a lot like:
a) Christmas
b) Hanukah
c) Kwanzaa
d) Indianapolis is a lock to win the Superbowl
Before backing down and permitting a full Nativity scene, a public library in Memphis agreed to allow the scene, but only if the baby Jesus, Joseph, Mary and the wise men were removed This left a shepherd boy and some farm animals. Next year the library will accept a Nativity scene only if it consists of:
a) A shepherd boy and some chickens
b) A shepherd boy and some ferrets
c) A shepherd boy explaining that the head librarian in Memphis thinks with a brain that may or may not be the result of Intelligent Design.
Compliments of John Leo |
posted by Jack Mercer @ 12/15/2005 01:52:00 PM   |
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Very clever.
The Plano, Texas school system is having a fit because Bill O'Reilly announced on his program that the school had forbidden red and green clothes this season, a move he termed "facism." Only problem is that, according to Plano, it's not true. They're demanding a retraction, which he says he's not going to give.
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I looked into this, EP. Found a link
http://mediamatters.org/items/200512130006
Looks like some of it may have been a mixup.
The guess what most people need to realize is that it is real what people are trying to do in an effort to be more politically correct. I find the stories documented at:
http://tonguetied.us/archives/cat_holiday_cheer.php
To be fairly interesting.
As I mentioned to a couple of my left friends, "Christmas has been around for centuries--its only in the last couple of years that people seem to want to do away with it. I can understand why it upsets some people."
Take care!
-Jack
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Jack, it turns out that the lyric-changing story was another lie told by O'Reilly. like the color-banning lie, it never happened. He's just spinning off the deep end.
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Shea, I think the quiz is just a spoof. The color banning situation was actually charged in a lawsuit, but it had to do with the color of napkins at a school function. Of course a lot of these kind of things once exposed for how ridiculous they are are often denied. There is often some basis in truth, otherwise why would allegations of such make it into a lawsuit?
The quiz is a spoof, but there are so many examples we can spoof on, we could make it hundreds of questions long.
Thanks for the input on O'Reilly. I don't have Fox News so I am not sure about his show.
-Jack
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Very clever.
The Plano, Texas school system is having a fit because Bill O'Reilly announced on his program that the school had forbidden red and green clothes this season, a move he termed "facism." Only problem is that, according to Plano, it's not true. They're demanding a retraction, which he says he's not going to give.