Sunday, November 17, 2013

Important questions on East 12th Street



A lone Christmas holiday tree stand sits, seemingly discarded, on East 12th Street near First Avenue. Is it from last year? Or in place for this coming Christmas holiday?
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10 comments:

  1. A little while ago INovember 17, 2013 at 12:20 PM

    Oh boy. Here we go again. Could Gruber weigh in on this? I thought it was only about the TREES.

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  2. EV GrieveNovember 17, 2013 at 12:51 PM

    @ A little while ago I said…

    I think we need to expand to include tree stands, garland and boxes of shiny baubles.

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  3. AnonymousNovember 17, 2013 at 1:46 PM

    Has anyone found the tree yet??? Oh the humanity!!!

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  4. AnonymousNovember 17, 2013 at 4:33 PM

    Maybe someone was celebrating Christmas last night. Did anyone on East 12th near Avenue A hear a lot of whoo-hooing coming from the avenue n the week hours of the night? I can't see onto the avenue from my window, but, man, could I hear it! It sounded like people were celebrating something.

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  5. AnonymousNovember 17, 2013 at 6:23 PM

    Why oh why should Christmas be crossed out and replaced by the word holiday? It is a CHRISTMAS tree. Period. End

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  6. MakeoutNovember 18, 2013 at 2:01 PM

    @ Anon 6:23- It's funnier that way. That's why.

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  7. Ho Ho HoNovember 18, 2013 at 2:29 PM

    It's not that it's funny, it's politically correct. You'd be surprised how many people are up in arms about having Christmas trees in their buildings and Christmas parties in their offices, and would rather call it holiday parties and trees.

    See this
    http://www.oregonlive.com/news/index.ssf/2009/12/ashland_school_will_return_hol.html

    and this

    http://content.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1868542,00.html

    And Grieve is just facetiously referring to that, I think.

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  8. EV GrieveNovember 18, 2013 at 2:37 PM

    @ Ho Ho Ho

    Oh, yes — several people yelled at me in previous post about the [_______] trees. I was told NOT to use Christmas in front of trees!

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  9. MakeoutNovember 18, 2013 at 3:11 PM

    Right. If Grieve put "Christmas" we wouldn't get any news. Or hawk pics. S/he would be too busy filling out hurt feeling reports.

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  10. AnonymousNovember 18, 2013 at 3:25 PM

    Actually, the tree is NOT a "Christmas" thing, it is a pagan thing. We should be calling these Jule Trees.

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