Subj : Shopping & Christmas was:
To   : Nancy Backus
From : Barry Martin
Date : Fri Aug 30 2019 10:36:00


Hi Nancy!

 BM>> A lot of times simple is better and easier.  ...Not to go too far and
 BM>> make everything simple: here's a stick - our Christmas tree!
 BM>> ('Festivus', anyone?!)
 NB>> Shades of Charlie Brown.... ;)
 BM> Possibly the Festivus stick-tree in _Seinfeld_ was based on the
 BM> Charlie Brown tree.  Or just some tired tree decorator who put up the
 BM> center of an artifical tree and thought 'this is enough'!
 NB> Could be... Hard to hang any sort of decorations on a stick, though... :)
 BM> True, though part of the 'Festivus' joke was the opposite of the
 BM> Christmas decorating.
 NB> Oh, ok.... Not being a TV viewer, I didn't exactly follow
 NB> Seinfeld either...  :)

That would make sense.  Some show topics have gone mainstream -- more or
less.  Was reading or watching something where the comment was the folks
of one generation would be familiar with <topic> while another 
generation the same topic was unfamiliar because they didn't live 
through it/wasn't part of their social lives.


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