Christmas is...

"Christmas is that magical time of year when the ghost of Jesus rises from the grave to feast on the flesh of the living. We lull him back to sleep by singing carols."
(Peter Griffin/Family Guy)

Anyone have a better explanation? ;-)

:shrug:

Peace
Presents
Profits
&
Pie

where you are forced to be happy and smile and feel joyful even if you don't want to . Eggnog was created for people like me who are forced to be happy and who don't want to smile and be joyful - Instead I want to get wasted and forget everything ... end of rant ...

and love but is now about greed and shame.

before the dawn of man as we knew him, there was Sir Santa of Claus, an ape-like creature making crude and pointless toys out of dinobones and his own waste, hurling them at chimp-like creatures with crinkled hands regardless of how they behaved the previous year. These so-called "toys" were buried as witches, and defecated upon, and hurled at predators when wakened by the searing grunts of children. It wasn't a holly jolly Christmas that year. For many were killed.

Read more here.

(From the Pogues' "Fairy Tale in New York", featuring the late Kirsty MacColl)

It was Christmas Eve babe
In the drunk tank
An old man said to me, won't see another one
And then he sang a song
The Rare Old Mountain Dew
I turned my face away
And dreamed about you

Got on a lucky one
Came in eighteen to one
I've got a feeling
This year's for me and you
So happy Christmas
I love you baby
I can see a better time
When all our dreams come true

They've got cars big as bars
They've got rivers of gold
But the wind goes right through you
It's no place for the old
When you first took my hand
On a cold Christmas Eve
You promised me
Broadway was waiting for me

You were handsome
You were pretty
Queen of New York City
When the band finished playing
They howled out for more
Sinatra was swinging,
All the drunks they were singing
We kissed on a corner
Then danced through the night

The boys of the NYPD choir
Were singing "Galway Bay"
And the bells were ringing out
For Christmas day

You're a bum
You're a punk
You're an old slut on junk
Lying there almost dead on a drip in that bed
You scumbag, you maggot
You cheap lousy faggot
Happy Christmas your arse
I pray God it's our last

I could have been someone
Well so could anyone
You took my dreams from me
When I first found you
I kept them with me babe
I put them with my own
Can't make it all alone
I've built my dreams around you

www.pogues.com/Releases/Lyrics/LPs/IfIShould/Fairytale.html