Beyond regifting, now it's ungifting
So, lemme get this straight. We had this event we called "Christmas", which celebrates the birth of Jesus Christ. Then we added this gift giving thing, because, well, Jesus got gifts when he was born, so we should give gifts too. Which is fine I guess, nothing wrong with that really.
Then we all went bonkers and decided we should turn it into an orgy of purchasing gifts for every single person you ever knew and all the people those people know. I mean, what happened to buying a gift for everyone in your immediate family (0r maybe just for the people you'll be spending Christmas with) and everyone else gets a card (if you even do that)? How can you possibly know what 200 different people will want? That's why people get i-tunes gift certificates for people without iPods.
And, of course, instead of discussing the real problem, which is why do we get so many gifts and/or why can't we devise a way to make sure we get people what they want (gift lists anyone?) we discuss how to get rid of the crap we got that we don't like. Which we never do, so we need bigger houses and bigger cars to keep it all. Speaking of which, why would you buy a car for someone else for Christmas?
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Hmmm, and i got Fung a deluxe cheese striaghtener with his state motto on it - what i'm going to do with phokking thing now?
"She didn't want to hurt her mother's feelings by refusing the musical penguins on the spot..."
So instead she granted an interview to the Chicago Tribune to tell the whole world about the lengths to which she was willing to go to get rid of the phokking pile of crap.
All of it just more grist for the barfing Jesus mill...
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