To: vocalist
Subject: Re: X in Christmas?
Date sent: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 09:30:22 PST
Send reply to: VOCALIST <vocalist>

John wrote:
>
>"If I could draw a slightly musical analogy;
>
>If I was to be invited to a birthday celebration in my honour by a
>whole bunch of my friends and then they started to sing "Happy
>birthday to X, happy birthday to X, happy birthday to we can't be
>bothered to say your name, happy birthday to X", and then they
>carried on giving each other presents, getting very drunk and eating
>too much, I don't believe I would stay there very long.
>
>I am not a 'religious' man, and I am not trying to point fingers. I
>simply believe that the 'X' thing has been used so much that people
>now adopt it quite innocently without realising that each time it is
>used, they are taking another little step closer to the complete
>commercialism of Christmas."


John, I have gotten out of the horrible habit of using the 'X', which as you
say has absolutely no place in a word such at Christmas! It is entirely
something which the businesses have drummed into our heads. Shame on us.
David
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