Re: Christmas vs "Holidays"

From: Bob Stephens (stephensyomamadigital_at_earthlink.net)
Date: 12/17/04 

Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 19:52:10 GMT

On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 19:29:01 +0000, John Woodgate wrote:

> I read in sci.electronics.design that Nicholas O. Lindan <see@sig.com>
> wrote (in <8fGwd.2399$Z47.2174@newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net>) about
> 'Christmas vs "Holidays"', on Fri, 17 Dec 2004:
>
>> "Then he took his contradictions out
>> And he splashed them on my brow
>> So which words was I then to doubt
>> When choosing what to vow
>> Should I choose them all-should I make them mine
>> The sermons, the hymns and the valentines
>> And he asked for truth and he asked for time
>> And he asked for only now
>> Now the trials are trumpet scored
>> Oh will we pass the test
>> Or just as one loves more and more
>> Will one love less and less
>> Oh come let's run from this ring we're in
>> Where the Christians clap and the Germans grin
>> Saying let them lose, crying let them win
>> Oh make them both confess" -- Joni Mitchell
>
> Is that from one of the gibberish passages in the Bible? Looks like one
> of the inferior psalms.

Yea verily. From the book of Joni who also begat:

"It's coming on Christmas
They're cutting down the trees
They're putting up reindeer
Singing songs of joy and peace.
I wish I had a river I could skate away on..."

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