[Spridgets] 67 Progress if anybody cares

[Linda Grunthaner]

Guy,
Nice to know another LBC lister is here at 5 something in the morning.
hehehehe
Lots of luck with your surgery.
Lin

On Nov 30, 2007 5:42 AM, Guy R Day <grday at btinternet.com> wrote:

> It may be of interest to note the word 'offensive' is not used in the
> Wikipedia explanation of Xmas.
> Xmas is an honourable abbreviation in most parts of the English speaking
> world who appreciate its origins.
> IMHO to class Xmas as offensive is just as offensive as saying the USA is
> filled with degenerate, oversensitive, self opinionated people.  It is
> simply NOT so.  (With the exceptions who plague this list.   :-)  )  Any
> offence can only be taken by misinformed Christian Fundamentalists with
> the
> sad warped twisted mentality of some, if not most, Mullahs.  (That will
> upset them as well.)
>
> Happy times to all.....
> Live every day being nice to your neighbours near and far....
>
> Guy R Day
>
> ps.  To avoid the flak I'm going off list for a week, another eye
> operation
> .......
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Linda Grunthaner" <grunthaner at gmail.com>
> To: "Robert Duquette" <robertduquette at sympatico.ca>
> Cc: <spridgets at autox.team.net>
> Sent: Friday, November 30, 2007 10:20 AM
> Subject: Re: [Spridgets] 67 Progress if anybody cares
>
>
>  > Whoa List,
> > I had no idea Xmas instead of Christmas would be more important a
> subject
> > than the magic that Frank can do with Spridgets. Wow you can really see
> > who
> > has a heated garage around here. But interesting that Wikipedia
> indicates
> > Xmas as offensive. No offence intended here just using abbreviations due
> > to my hunt & peck technique. Now look at all the hunting & pecking I
> just
> > did.
> >
> > Frank do you get Spridget parts under your tree for CHRISTMAS : )
> > Lin
> >
> > On Nov 29, 2007 10:20 PM, Robert Duquette <robertduquette at sympatico.ca>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> I'm not sure about that, as his name is pronounced with a soft I
> instead
> >> of
> >> a hard I.  Sort as if it were spelled Chrisst.  So maybe check iX?   :)
> >>
> >> >From: "Chris King" <cbking at alum.rpi.edu>
> >> >
> >> >So we can abbreviate the name of one of our listers as chuck X?  :)
> >> >
> >> >Chris King
> >> >http://home.comcast.net/~kvcbk/
> >> >
> >> >  <-----Original Message----->
> >> >From: David Lieb [dbl at chicagolandmgclub.com]
> >> >
> >>  >But, the word "Christ" is actually Greek and starts with the letter
> >> Chi,
> >> >which resembles an "X". Thus, when we write Xmas, we are not, as some
> >> >fundamentalists would like you to think, "replacing "Christ" with an
> >> >"X", we
> >> >are merely abbreviating the name in a perfectly acceptable manner.
> >> >David Lieb
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