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                     It's Christmas time in the city stores
                                        
I'm reading about the latest signs for the End of the Civilization [1] (the
latest items that can be sold at your local comic book shop) when I see some
Christmas-themed items. And that was enough to remind me of a small incident
that happed a few days ago. 

Bunny and I went to The Cracker Barrel [2] for dinner, and in passing through
the gift store section (which you have to do to get to the dining room area)
we came across a few Christmas-themed items for sale. 

It's not even August [3] yet! 

I mean, I could understand seeing Christmas-themed merchandise this early if
you were in Christmas, Florida [4] (although I didn't see any Christmas-
themed stuff the last time I went through there [5]). But I'm not in
Christmas, Florida. 

Then again, I'm one to talk—we still have our Christmas wreath on the front
doot at Casa New Jersey. 

[1] http://www.progressiveruin.com/2008_07_27_archive.html#7408689424671771238
[2] http://www.crackerbarrel.com/
[3] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2006/08/31.1
[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas,_Florida
[5] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2007/06/17.1

Email Sean Conner at sean@conman.org

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