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I have been away from home for most of the Christmas season, living in a dirty one bedroom apartment with three other males and am missing the Christmas cheer and so I share with you these three stories to get you in the mood for buying or giving, either or:

Sorry about the Stable
A couple weeks ago a hotel in Britain announced that they will give free stays on Dec 24 to any couple named Mary and Joseph to make up for there being “no room in the inn”. My last name being Inman, derived from the inn man or inn keeper, this brings joy to my family, as our ancestors have felt the shame for hundreds of years for not giving baby Jesus a place to stay. Christmas will once again be a time for rejoicing.

Lawsuits are pending claiming the Hotel is discriminating against other religions by not giving them a holiday, the prosecutors named were: Buddha, Mohammed, Joseph Smith, L. Ron Hubbard and Darth Vader.

This one I had to give you the whole article because I couldn’t do it justice:

Nativity Plays Boosting Tea Towel Sales
LONDON (Reuters) - Sales of tea towels are booming as parents use them as headdresses for their children in primary school Nativity plays, Sainsbury’s supermarket said Monday. So great is the demand — known in the trade as the Bethlehem Boost — that Sainsbury’s has ordered extra supplies.

“Our sales figures show that, this year, most Nativity play actors will be wearing multi-striped herringbone tea towels,” said a Sainsbury spokeswoman.
Sales of a more sophisticated tea towel, with yellow, blue brown and white stripes are also going well.

“We suspect these are being chosen by Virgin Marys who want to stand out from the crowd and make a fashion statement,” she added.

I’ve always loved to see little Mary portrayed with a herringbone towel, it feels so much classier.

Virgin Mobile Spreads Christmas Joy Without Offending
Virgin Mobile has created a new holiday to combine all “winter” holidays called Christmahanakwnazakah. In an advertisement they teach us the only way to make Christmas not offend people, strip it of all its religious overtones and make it about “Camera phones for $20 dollars less”. I’m glad someone was able to finally find a good solution to the problem that is Christmas. You can watch the flash movie here

(Obviously Virgin is using the beautiful literary convention called satire, as am I during this post)

Update 12/15: I guess this flash movie is based on a commercial, Craig, my boss, from Soul Interactive sent it to me. I must warn it’s virgin mobile and they are not always the most wholesome advertising, but you gotta hear the Santa Claus if only that. Watch the commercial