November 1st Christmas Music now [Archive]

KD6NIG

11-01-2006, 03:21 PM

Heh, I saw christmas stuff being put out on display at the local Walmart a few days before my birthday, Oct 22.

I remember when I could at least not see it till after I had added another year to the self-odometer.

It used to be Christmas started around Thanksgiving. Now its almost a 3 month holiday http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

And people wonder why, by the time it comes, that people are sick of it http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

N2RJ

11-01-2006, 04:06 PM

Costco began selling decorations since September!

KD6NIG

11-01-2006, 04:09 PM

Quote[/b] (AB2MH @ Nov. 01 2006,09:06)]Costco began selling decorations since September!
Talk about being way ahead of the curve....

But I guess people are looking for that stuff already.

AC0H

11-01-2006, 04:45 PM

They don't usually start around here till Thanksgiving weekend, maybe a week earlier.

One of the local department stores, "Younkers", had Christmas decorations on sale in August.

That reminds me, I need to find my lights for the house.

kl7aj

11-01-2006, 04:46 PM

It's Christmas EVERY day in North Pole! http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

eric

wa4ilh

11-01-2006, 04:59 PM

Quote[/b] (kl7aj @ Nov. 01 2006,09:46)]It's Christmas EVERY day in North Pole! http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

eric
Ho Ho Ho ... Tom WA4ILH

kc7mrq

11-01-2006, 05:01 PM

Wish they would hurry up and put out the Valentines Day candy....

w3bny

11-01-2006, 05:02 PM

Quote[/b] (wa4ilh @ Nov. 01 2006,07:19)]Nearly two months to go till Christmas and Kansas City's KUDL-FM started playing Christmas music this morning. #Give me a break. #Tom WA4ILH
Blessed Creator NO!!!

Im not ready for this... I swear...on a stack of Alpha amps.. if I hear that cursed Jose Feliciano song...... http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/mad.gif

AC0H

11-01-2006, 05:09 PM

Quote[/b] ]Feliz Navidad
Feliz Navidad
Feliz Navidad
Prospero Ano y Felicidad.
Feliz Navidad
Feliz Navidad
Feliz Navidad
Prospero Ano y Felicidad.

I wanna wish you a Merry Christmas
I wanna wish you a Merry Christmas
I wanna wish you a Merry Christmas
From the bottom of my heart.

Linkage. (http://www.bethanyroberts.com/FelizNavidad.htm)

N9XR

11-01-2006, 05:15 PM

Quote[/b] (wa4ilh @ Nov. 01 2006,01:19)]Nearly two months to go till Christmas and Kansas City's KUDL-FM started playing Christmas music this morning. Give me a break. Tom WA4ILH
Give me a break. Stop listening to KUDL-FM. Tune to 98.9, the Rock. You can avoid Xmas music so soonly.

w3bny

11-01-2006, 08:27 PM

Quote[/b] (AC0H @ Nov. 01 2006,10:09)]Quote[/b] ]Feliz Navidad
Feliz Navidad
Feliz Navidad
Prospero Ano y Felicidad.
Feliz Navidad
Feliz Navidad
Feliz Navidad
Prospero Ano y Felicidad.

I wanna wish you a Merry Christmas
I wanna wish you a Merry Christmas
I wanna wish you a Merry Christmas
From the bottom of my heart.

Linkage. (http://www.bethanyroberts.com/FelizNavidad.htm)
LALALALALALALALALALALLLALALALA I AM NOT LISTENING.. LALALALALALALALALLLALALA

G0GQK

11-01-2006, 08:49 PM

There was a photograph in a British national newspaper about a month ago which showed workmen installing Christmas lights in the main street of a town, but where I cannot remember.

People were a bit angry about it and especially when they put the lights on one night. And I heard Christmas tunes being played at the end of September in a supermarket.

Mel G0GQK

KC2PBJ

11-01-2006, 09:57 PM

National Advertising Council uber alles. Just be glad it doesn't start on Independance Day.

kf6rdn

11-01-2006, 10:39 PM

Quote[/b] (kc7mrq @ Nov. 01 2006,09:01)]Wish they would hurry up and put out the Valentines Day candy....
Wish they'd put out the HALLOWEEN candy!
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KF0RT

11-01-2006, 11:47 PM

Quote[/b] (KC2PBJ @ Nov. 01 2006,14:57)]National Advertising Council uber alles. Just be glad it doesn't start on Independance Day.
They're saving that for NEXT year.

I loathe what Christmas has become.

73, Rob
Grinch, CO

n2nh

11-01-2006, 11:59 PM

They put up the Christmas decorations over the street over 3 weeks ago here. Must be a bad year for sales. That's the only time they do that. If you get a chance to see the New York Marathon, you'll see the area near the QTH here. They go by a block from here. Right past those same Christmas decorations... http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/sad.gif

KC2ESD

11-02-2006, 12:47 AM

I love Christmas but I believe alot of stores are jumping the gun. I'm seening Xmas decorations out in stores 2 weeks before Halloween. It seems like Nov 1st is the start of Christmas season now. When I was a kid it started right after Thanksgiving. Christmas is great but to much of a good thing can ruin it.

kg4kww

11-02-2006, 01:04 AM

I agree, Xmas is being put upon us so, your local retailer can rake in tons of $$$$$$$$. Same goes for radio / tv stations, they want those advertising $$$$$.

Xmas is not what it used to be.

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AC0BU

11-02-2006, 01:28 AM

businesses only get out of hand because people are willing to spend what they don't have year after year. companies are just trying to get what they can before people do thier annual wising up
# # # # # # # # # # #

w4rlr

11-02-2006, 02:10 AM

Quote[/b] (w3bny @ Nov. 01 2006,12:02)]Quote[/b] (wa4ilh @ Nov. 01 2006,07:19)]Nearly two months to go till Christmas and Kansas City's KUDL-FM started playing Christmas music this morning. #Give me a break. #Tom WA4ILH
Blessed Creator NO!!!

Im not ready for this... #I swear...on a stack of Alpha amps.. if I hear that cursed Jose Feliciano song...... # http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/mad.gif
Feliz Navidad! Feliz Navidad! Feliz Navidad! Prospero Ano y felicidad! http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wow.gif

(Be glad I didn't include a link to Jared, the butcher of song!)

K1OU

11-02-2006, 02:39 AM

If I can make it through one year without hearing "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town", by Bruce Springsteen, it will be a great holiday.

KW4MW

11-02-2006, 03:11 AM

Sure - Wally-Mart is putting out Christmas decorations on their counters now - smart business move on their part and the competition is aping them. #

Consider folks, if they waited until after Thanksgiving to put out Christmas decorations then those 1 or 2 paychecks that the rank and file earn between the two holidays may not be enough to buy all the Christmas gifts AND new Christmas decorations. #

And what family would want to be the only ones on the block without the latest blow up, rotating and lighted Santa Claus and reindeer in a large plastic bubble sitting proudly on the front lawn? #

So WMT gets the Christmas decorations out early so the hoi polloi can buy the decorations on pre-Thanksgiving paychecks.

WMT - Closed at 43.02 on 7/16
# # # # ##Closed at 48.85 today 11/01 - down from last weeks high of 51.20.

Keep spending those hard earned dollars at WMT folks, I can use the capital appreciation.

KC2ESD

11-02-2006, 03:53 AM

KW4MW you have a good point, Businesses stretching the season so people can spread the spending over more weeks sounds good.

K1OU your lucky you don't live in NJ, since Bruce comes from New Jersey it means his Xmas songs get played more here then else were in the USA.

Also the Coca-Cola Xmas cans with Santa on the can started selling today.

n4sva

11-02-2006, 03:54 AM

Whatever happened to good 'ol "Grandma got ran over by a reindeer"?

k5lnx

11-02-2006, 04:05 AM

Quote[/b] (wa4ilh @ Nov. 01 2006,07:19)]Nearly two months to go till Christmas and Kansas City's KUDL-FM started playing Christmas music this morning. Give me a break. Tom WA4ILH
There's a store in Austin, Tx that sells Christmas stuff year round. I've often wondered who decides to buy Christmas decorates in April. I guess someone since the store has been there for many many years http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

Sam, Kx5SAM

AG3Y

11-02-2006, 04:09 AM

Christmas, CHRISTmas - - - - what in the world is CHRISTMAS ? http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/rock.gif ?

Oh, you mean X-Mas, don't you, or even "The Holidays". Now I get it ! ! ! Talk about taking Christ out of Christmas/X-Mas/"The Holidays"

BTW, there is a not-so-funny joke that goes, "How do you know that Halloween is almost here?" "Simple, it happens about the time when everybody starts putting out the Christmas items in the stores! " http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/sad.gif

73, and "Merry Christmas! ! ! " ( There, I was probably the first to wish it to you ! )

Jim

k9kxq

11-02-2006, 04:28 AM

Quit your belly aching, I love Christmas music... http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/laugh.gif

kxq

kb9iou

11-02-2006, 04:34 AM

My wife tells me every year I have to wait until at least Thanksgiving to start putting up the outside Christmas decorations...

KW4MW

11-02-2006, 04:47 AM

Quote[/b] ]My wife tells me every year I have to wait until at least Thanksgiving to start putting up the outside Christmas decorations...

I tell my wife every year that I ain't gonna put up the darned outside Christmas lights at all.

So far: Wife 36, 4MW 0

KG6YTZ

11-02-2006, 05:00 AM

Quote[/b] (wa4ilh @ Nov. 01 2006,06:19)]Nearly two months to go till Christmas and Kansas City's KUDL-FM started playing Christmas music this morning.
Ahhhhh-YUP! #Happy Hallowanksmas, everybody! http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

Quote[/b] ]Give me a break. #Tom WA4ILH
Go ahead with the break. #KG6YTZ. #http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

KG6YTZ

11-02-2006, 05:08 AM

Quote[/b] (KD6NIG @ Nov. 01 2006,07:21)]Heh, I saw christmas stuff being put out on display at the local Walmart a few days before my birthday, Oct 22.
I remember going into one of those big warehouse stores many years ago - I'm thinking it was probably Pace or Price-Savers at the time; it's a Sam's Club now - and seeing a small but festive pre-season display of lights and decorations...

...wait for the punch line... wait for it...

...IN THE MIDDLE OF FREAKIN' AUGUST!!!

"...and we can't call Ripley's Believe It Or Not, because, well, they wouldn't believe it!" --- Hogarth, "The Iron Giant"

Cheeze Linda... Can't we even get LABOR DAY out of the way first?

KG6YTZ

11-02-2006, 05:11 AM

Quote[/b] (kc7mrq @ Nov. 01 2006,09:01)]Wish they would hurry up and put out the Valentines Day candy....
Yeah... And clear it all the heck outta there by the end of January so we can get started on Easter. http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

Before Easter, though, we must spend a month honoring our founding fathers by selling mattresses.

KG6YTZ

11-02-2006, 05:12 AM

Quote[/b] (w3bny @ Nov. 01 2006,09:02)]if I hear that cursed Jose Feliciano song...... # http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/mad.gif
"Pour sparrows on you and Felicia's dad..." http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

W2LYS

11-02-2006, 05:43 AM

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w3bny

11-02-2006, 12:43 PM

Quote[/b] (n4sva @ Nov. 01 2006,20:54)]Whatever happened to good 'ol "Grandma got ran over by a reindeer"?
CRAP!!! Thats the other one on my top 3 list http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/mad.gif

AC0H

11-02-2006, 01:41 PM

Quote[/b] ]My wife tells me every year I have to wait until at least Thanksgiving to start putting up the outside Christmas decorations...
If I wait that long around here I'll just end up doing it when it so cold outside that "stuff" can actually freeze off. I'd just as soon keep all my "stuff"! http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

Like 4MW, the wife wins that one every year,......and she's Jewish. Her new title is "She who must be obeyed".

KC2ESD

11-02-2006, 11:31 PM

In at one Atlantic City Hotel CHRISTmas starts November 9th

CasinoChristmas (http://www.tropicana.net/promo/110206/)

Note: I do not work at the Tropicana.

Rick KC2ESD

w4rlr

11-03-2006, 03:41 AM

One of my holiday favorites:
Walking Around in Women's Underwear (http://www.links2love.com/christmas_songs_womens_underwear.htm)

and another:
Santa Claus and His Old Lady (http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Theater/4682/lyrics/santa.htm)