Complaining about how stores put up holiday decorations earlier and earlier every year is neck-and-neck with the over-or-under toilet paper debate for the title of “most tiresome pet peeve kept alive by syndicated newspaper advice columnists and lite-fm morning DJs.”
But if you want to get into some seriously self-righteous shit, just bring up “those people who keep their christmas lights up, like, all year.” Then, stand back.
Take, for example, this dorm hallway from South Dakota State University. “I walk by this room pretty much every day to go to class and the complaints on their whiteboard keep growing,” our submitter says. “I’m pretty sure they’re going to leave their Christmas decorations up for even longer now, just out of spite.”
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#1
Thanks!
A redneck dorm?
Jan 28, 2009 at 12:06 am rating: 90
#2
Mark
TP should go over, duh!
I love the barbed penis with glob of jizz.
Huh? That’s a Christmas tree? But Christmas is Ver.
Wait, TP is over, but Christmas is just Ver?
You commie librul atheist heathens! You’re taking the O out of Xmas!
…oh, wait…
Jan 28, 2009 at 12:10 am rating: 90
#3
SarahBelle
Because that “goodwill to all” spirit only lasts until Dec. 24. After that, don’t you holly jolly anything buster until Thanksgiving.
Jan 28, 2009 at 12:12 am rating: 90
#4
candybeans
I love (what i’m guessing at are) Shannon’s calm replies to the hating.
“so it is.”
“still winter.”
I imagine a HAL-like voice: “I’m afraid i can’t do that. You were going to take down the x-mas decorations, and i’m afraid that is something that I cannot let happen.”
Jan 28, 2009 at 12:24 am rating: 90
#5
Canthz_B
Christmas lives on, and it’s at an Elvis concert.
Jan 28, 2009 at 12:37 am rating: 90
#6
AuntyBron
Whatever happened to “Keep Christmas in your heart all year”?
Jan 28, 2009 at 12:47 am rating: 90
#7
racerx22
Redneck the halls with bows of holly
We once had a tree that we decorated solely with aluminum beer cans. My buddy and I left it up until all the needles fell off. None of our room mates complained. The moral of the story…..
Drink More Alcohol and Nothing Else Matters
Jan 28, 2009 at 12:49 am rating: 90
#8
Canthz_B
Don’t you hate it when people mistake M.L. King Day wreaths for Christmas decorations?
Jan 28, 2009 at 12:54 am rating: 90
#9
TheOldSchool
The submitter’s last sentence in this posting indicates that her brain isn’t quite right.
I suspect that she is undersexed and resentful of people with colorful decorations.
My prescription: Give her massive quantities of E, have her scrubbed, checked, and brought to my quarters.
Jan 28, 2009 at 12:56 am rating: 90
#10
warinthepocket
Mistletoe always has a place in my doorway.
Jan 28, 2009 at 12:56 am rating: 90
#11
Craniac
I have a pre-lit tree still up in my living room that doesn’t work that I’ll let go cheap to the best offer.
Jan 28, 2009 at 1:59 am rating: 90
#12
Canthz_B
Christmas comes but once a year…
So make that bitch last!!
Jan 28, 2009 at 2:10 am rating: 90
#13
NoExit
I look at it this way: if you don’t take down your Christmas decorations, you’re saved the trouble of putting them up again next year. Team Lazy.
Jan 28, 2009 at 2:51 am rating: 90
#14
racerx22
Sorry we were team lazy (1st) sixteen years ago when we didn’t water the tree. Would someone get me a beer please?
Jan 28, 2009 at 3:02 am rating: 90
#15
racerx22
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh thank you…………… and now I don’t care
Jan 28, 2009 at 3:25 am rating: 90
#16
msinformed
I love how Ellen’s written her name in large, colourful letters, forcing poor Shannon to just scrawl her name below as an afterthought.
ELLEN’S Message Board
.
.
.
and Shannon’s
Team Ellen’s a greedy board-hogging bitch
Jan 28, 2009 at 3:51 am rating: 90
#17
claw71
Being an efficiency-minded guy I really don’t see the harm in leaving Christmas Decorations up. After all, Christmas is less than a year away and you’re going to put those decorations up well before hand, right? So why take them down at all. If you want to acknowledge other holidays you can easily augment most Christmas decorations to reflect the appropriate theme. Even something overtly Chrstmas-y, like a nativity scene, can be altered.
Baby Jesus makes an excellent cupid and a few match sticks taped to the chests of the rest of the cast will look like he’s shot everybody with his arrows. A month later Baby J can done some green and be a Leprechaun for St. Patty’s day. You can finish off the authentic Irish theme by supplying the rest of the nativity ensemble with little mugs of beer. I’d also suggest having Joseph passed out with the sheep and Mary drunkenly servicing all three of the wise men to capture the true meaning of March 17th.
Easter can go a number of ways but a few jelly beans and a giant bunny can turn the nativity scene into Easter morn complete with Jesus crawling around looking for hidden eggs, or you can simply have Baby Jesus and the Bunny square off in a death match to see who really controls that floating Holiday. My money is on the Bunny.
Independence day can be reflected with overt displays of red, white and blue and Halloween is easily adapted to this venue with a few creepy candles and some zombie make-up.
By then, you’re good to go for Christmas again.
Jan 28, 2009 at 6:21 am rating: 90
#18
Wade
If you tade your shit down, does that produce a fecal mist?
Jan 28, 2009 at 7:04 am rating: 90
#19
anglophile
You know how every year, when people start putting their Christmas displays up in their yard, there’s always that piece on the local news about how somebody got a Rudolph or a Santa or a Baby Jesus stolen, and they interview the person who’s practically bawling and the reporter shakes their head solemnly and condemningly at the low-life scum who would steal a Baby Jesus?
I bet when I steal my neighbor’s mishmash of Christmas and Valentine’s Day decorations on February 15, no one will give a damn.
Jan 28, 2009 at 8:24 am rating: 90
#20
QuarterRoy00
I think they should put up some Halloween decorations just to fuck w/ everyone.
Jan 28, 2009 at 8:44 am rating: 90
#21
you suck at craigslist
They’re not STILL up from last year, they’re up REALLY EARLY for this year!
Jan 28, 2009 at 9:49 am rating: 90
#22
Andy
In my old college off-campus house we put up decorations for each holiday and never took any of them down.
There’s something endearing about a room with fake spiderweb covering Christmas lights hanging over a turkey standing on a shamrock being shot by cupid.
Oh yeah, there were also myriad hot chicks in bikinis posters – those were endearing, too!
Jan 28, 2009 at 10:25 am rating: 90
#23
zenvelo
to quote “Elmo’s Christmas Wish” –
“not every day can be Christmas, that wouldn’t be such a treat.
you can get tired of chocolate candy if that’s all you eat.”
Jan 28, 2009 at 10:50 am rating: 90
#24
Mishee
Wonder what Ellen will think one day when she arrives at her door to some stoner who took her subscript seriously and used the white board to actually knock themselves out.
That would be quite random.
Jan 28, 2009 at 10:58 am rating: 90
#25
GhostWriter
South Dakota is in a weird timezone; Christmas isn’t actually over there until February 8th.
Think of the money they save on after-Christmas sales
Jan 28, 2009 at 11:05 am rating: 90
#26
GhostWriter
Ellen’s the one that worries me.
Who labels a message board on their own door like that? That’s like Sharpie’ing “BILL’S IPOD” on Bill’s IPod.
Then, after a full semester of everybody ignoring her board, she added, “Hey, I know I branded this board as mine, but feel free to add your own random thoughts, which I will review and comment upon, or erase.” …and that’s like trying to make a meaningful chat comment in Club Penguin.
Jan 28, 2009 at 11:18 am rating: 90
#27
SoDakGirl
My parents put up Christmas lights 12 years ago and haven’t taken them down. They’ve become a way to keep people from getting lost.
“2 miles down the dirt road..second farm on the right..we’ll turn the Christmas lights on so you know you have the right place…”
Jan 28, 2009 at 12:10 pm rating: 90
#28
Olivia
This reminds me, I have to throw out my tree this week. Being a Jew, I really have no idea how long I’m supposed to leave that shit out.
Jan 28, 2009 at 3:24 pm rating: 90
#29
Frankie
I was forced to get a real tree this year. Kind of forced.. Went along with it to prove my point and so now that the point has been proven I can go buy a fake one next year. Where was I going with this? Oh yeah, I’m gonna burn the real one in the spring. It’s laying out by my fire pit right now.
Let’s set her shit on fire…..
Just for fun.
Jan 28, 2009 at 5:05 pm rating: 90
#30
aaa
Ellen likes randomness, eh? In a college environment, that usually means your property getting graffitied with bodily fluids. Personally, my favorite is semen. Feces is also good, though; it has good sticking power.
Jan 28, 2009 at 11:25 pm rating: 90
#31
msinformed
Ellen clearly loves her Christmas decorations. I suggest next year she tries the following approach, which’ll hopefully please the self-appointed dorm decoration approval committee while allowing the girl to enjoy Christmas to her heart’s content:
Right after the holidays she takes the decorations down. After 3 days, however, she puts them back up again. That way she isn’t late taking them down but instead very very early putting them up.
Jan 29, 2009 at 2:35 am rating: 90
#32
fantasy
Everyone should embrace their randomness!
“Have a Merry Christmas!” No matter what the season.
Don’t forget to wear one of those festive Christmas corsages that were so popular in the sixties. You can continue to wear your cute Christmas sweaters and just be random with it.
Mellow out. Join in. Don’t ruin it for everyone.
Jan 29, 2009 at 9:04 am rating: 90
#33
tsel
Ah, college. Nobody truly appreciates when you put up the decorations, so why waste proper drinking time to take them down?
You should have seen the reactions to the girl with pornographic art and poetry on her door. I wish I had taken photos.
Jan 29, 2009 at 9:22 am rating: 90
#34
MAMARILLA2
Aren’t we missing the obligatory pink/green penii on the white board, or are they reserved for yellow legal paper?
Jan 29, 2009 at 10:42 am rating: 90
#35
Therapeutic Ramblings
It is never too early for next x-mas!!
My friends use to leave their x-mas lights all year…so whenever they threw a party, they’d say…”Just look for the x-mas lights!”
Jan 29, 2009 at 2:36 pm rating: 90
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