Can anyone tell me what "Scary ghost stories" has to do with Christmas?
Out of all of the songs and carols I hear this time every year, that is the only line that I can't seem to comprehend. I have never sat around a roaring fire after trimming the tree, trying to scare the crap out of my friends and family with stories of rotting corpses. And, to my knowledge, neither has anyone I know. Sheer terror isn't in my recipe for 'The most wonderful time of the year".
Isn't it enough that we purposely lie to our children, blackmailing them into being good by telling them about a total stranger who is constantly watching us, even while we are asleep; who lives far away from the reach of the legal institutions of modern society; who wants our children to sit on his lap and whisper in his ear; who once a year goes on a global breaking-and-entering crime spree, eating our milk and cookies?
Isn't that scary enough?
Out of all of the songs and carols I hear this time every year, that is the only line that I can't seem to comprehend. I have never sat around a roaring fire after trimming the tree, trying to scare the crap out of my friends and family with stories of rotting corpses. And, to my knowledge, neither has anyone I know. Sheer terror isn't in my recipe for 'The most wonderful time of the year".
Isn't it enough that we purposely lie to our children, blackmailing them into being good by telling them about a total stranger who is constantly watching us, even while we are asleep; who lives far away from the reach of the legal institutions of modern society; who wants our children to sit on his lap and whisper in his ear; who once a year goes on a global breaking-and-entering crime spree, eating our milk and cookies?
Isn't that scary enough?
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khoos:
The do not call registry was made of fail elsewhere. telemarketing companies can get that list for free and there's no way to track as well as no repercussions for calling people on that list...
faytal_kraydel:
Who is your daddy, and what does he do?