Why is Christmas the only Holiday that needs to be "saved"?

[michigancat]

I mean, there's like tons of movies and TV specials about "saving Christmas".

Why doesn't anyone ever need to save Labor Day or the 4th of July?

[jeffy]

I mean, there's like tons of movies and TV specials about "saving Christmas".

Why doesn't anyone ever need to save Labor Day or the 4th of July?

Because there's a 4th of July will exist whether any country celebrates anything on that day or not.

I do recall a movie where some people had to save the world on Independence Day.

And nobody cares about workers, except for the unions.  The Film Actors Guild doesn't make movies for other unions.

[jmlynch1]

Capitalists

[Skycat]

All I know is, from the books I've been reading, and movies I've been watching with my kid lately Santa must be a real drunk.

d00d crashes that damn sleigh just about every year.

[jeffy]

All I know is, from the books I've been reading, and movies I've been watching with my kid lately Santa must be a real drunk.

d00d crashes that damn sleigh just about every year.

Red Sleigh Down!  Red Sleigh Down!

[Saulbadguy]

Planes Trains and Automobiles was loosely based around the idea of "saving" thanksgiving. 

[jeffy]

Saul is back?  Saul has saved Christmas for KSUfans.

[SkinnyBenny]

Independence Day was about saving 4th of July from those alien assholes.

[jeffy]

Independence Day was about saving 4th of July from those alien assholes.

http://www.ksufans.com/forums/index.php?topic=47948.msg674856#msg674856

[FelixRex]

Are other holidays in trouble? Has anyone tried to steal Arbor Day?

[Pete]

WAR ON CHRISTMAS 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_controversy

[SkinnyBenny]

Are other holidays in trouble? Has anyone tried to steal Arbor Day?

The Once-ler? 

[FelixRex]

You know what holiday I think is weird? Colombus day. When I moved to the east coast, everyone's like "hey no work on Monday. It's Colombus Day."

WTF am I supposed to do on Colombus Day. "Discover" and claim my neighbor's back yard and give him smallpox? Whose idea was Colombus day? How the &@#% does a badass like Washington not get his own day, but freakin' Colombus does? I'm amazing the indigenous populations even allow us to keep celebrating that whole thing. As I remember, it did not really pan out well for them.

From now on, I'm celebrating Leif Ericson Day on Colombus Day (or whoever that red Viking was that landed in Canada, cross-bred with penguins and spawned the Eskimo people). A Viking holiday would be so much cooler.

[Pete]

You know what holiday I think is weird? Colombus day. When I moved to the east coast, everyone's like "hey no work on Monday. It's Colombus Day."

WTF am I supposed to do on Colombus Day. "Discover" and claim my neighbor's back yard and give him smallpox? Whose idea was Colombus day? How the frack does a badass like Washington not get his own day, but freakin' Colombus does? I'm amazing the indigenous populations even allow us to keep celebrating that whole thing. As I remember, it did not really pan out well for them.

From now on, I'm celebrating Leif Ericson Day on Colombus Day (or whoever that red Viking was that landed in Canada, cross-bred with penguins and spawned the Eskimo people). A Viking holiday would be so much cooler.

Well I'll be damned, there IS a Viking Holiday

http://rides.webshots.com/album/569603350QoWcBj

[cireksu]

there was a really good soprano's epi where Native Americans were protesting Columbus day and Paulie and the gang beat them up.

[FelixRex]

there was a really good soprano's epi where Native Americans were protesting Columbus day and Paulie and the gang beat them up.

beating up an Indian is great because it's like beating up a hippie and a Mexican at the same time.

[TheShocker]

beating up an Indian is great because it's like beating up a hippie and a Mexican at the same time.

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Your grandpa sounds pretty cool. Tell him to post here.

[Thin Blue Line]

there was a really good soprano's epi where Native Americans were protesting Columbus day and Paulie and the gang beat them up.

beating up an Indian is great because it's like beating up a hippie and a Mexican at the same time.

That really pisses me off. 

[chum1]

God dammit.  It's because Christmas is everyone's f*cking favorite holiday, okay?  Why would you make a movie in which a day like Presidents Day needs to be saved?  No one would be interested in that movie because no one gives a sh*t about Presidents Day. 

[ThreeHolePunch]

I would love to share a beer with your grandpa, even though I am part hispanic, sort of, not really.

I hate hippies but love hispanic women.

there was a really good soprano's epi where Native Americans were protesting Columbus day and Paulie and the gang beat them up.

beating up an Indian is great because it's like beating up a hippie and a Mexican at the same time.

[Thin Blue Line]

I would love to share a beer with your grandpa, even though I am part hispanic, sort of, not really.

I hate hippies but love hispanic women.

there was a really good soprano's epi where Native Americans were protesting Columbus day and Paulie and the gang beat them up.

beating up an Indian is great because it's like beating up a hippie and a Mexican at the same time.

Hispanic/Indian women....         

[FelixRex]

I would love to share a beer with your grandpa, even though I am part hispanic, sort of, not really.

I hate hippies but love hispanic women.

there was a really good soprano's epi where Native Americans were protesting Columbus day and Paulie and the gang beat them up.

beating up an Indian is great because it's like beating up a hippie and a Mexican at the same time.

Hispanic/Indian women....         

#1 Reason to beat up Indian/Hispanic dudes (that is, if you can't get them drunk and buy their women peacefully with a basket of marbles or something).

Also, how lame are Hispanics and Indians as an ethnic minority? They don't even have a signature martial arts form or anything. 

Dance fighting? GTFOOMF before I count coup on your gay hair braid.

[Thin Blue Line]

I would love to share a beer with your grandpa, even though I am part hispanic, sort of, not really.

I hate hippies but love hispanic women.

there was a really good soprano's epi where Native Americans were protesting Columbus day and Paulie and the gang beat them up.

beating up an Indian is great because it's like beating up a hippie and a Mexican at the same time.

Hispanic/Indian women....         

#1 Reason to beat up Indian/Hispanic dudes (that is, if you can't get them drunk and buy their women peacefully with a basket of marbles or something).

Also, how lame are Hispanics and Indians as an ethnic minority? They don't even have a signature martial arts form or anything. 

Dance fighting? GTFOOMF before I count coup on your gay hair braid.

Maybe the hispanic-indians will use your head as a soccer ball?

[FelixRex]

I would love to share a beer with your grandpa, even though I am part hispanic, sort of, not really.

I hate hippies but love hispanic women.

there was a really good soprano's epi where Native Americans were protesting Columbus day and Paulie and the gang beat them up.

beating up an Indian is great because it's like beating up a hippie and a Mexican at the same time.

Hispanic/Indian women....         

#1 Reason to beat up Indian/Hispanic dudes (that is, if you can't get them drunk and buy their women peacefully with a basket of marbles or something).

Also, how lame are Hispanics and Indians as an ethnic minority? They don't even have a signature martial arts form or anything. 

Dance fighting? GTFOOMF before I count coup on your gay hair braid.

Maybe the hispanic-indians will use your head as a soccer ball?

Easy, bro. Why don't you make like a mestizo and lighten up?