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They're trying to corrupt our holiday!
Category: Weirdness
Posted on: December 5, 2007 10:57 AM, by PZ Myers
OK, I saw these links to weird decorations, and except for this set, there's nary a cephalopod to be seen. And then I realized these aren't squidmas decorations, they're nerdmas decorations! Obscenity! Heresy! By not exclusively recognizing our sacred traditions and not snubbing alternatives, this is clearly an instance of the War on Squidmas.
Don't allow this to happen. When someone waves a Mario Bros. ornament at you, or shows up wearing a stormtrooper helmet, or says "Happy Nerdmas!", slap 'em with a tentacle and howl about how they're oppressing you.
Comments
No worry, I only observe Decemberween.
Posted by: Sarcastro | December 5, 2007 11:13 AM
We're so oppressed!
Posted by: Dan | December 5, 2007 11:20 AM
Fear not, PZ. Your holidaze shall be salvaged!
As it turns out, my partner and I will be visiting some of her relatives in the fabled city of Providence and so we hall also be paying a visit to Lovecraft's grave. There will be photos, and I'm sure that some pics taken at the final resting place of Cthulhu's father will brighten your Squidmas considerably.
Posted by: Mike O'Risal | December 5, 2007 11:45 AM
thou shalt have no other squid before me
Posted by: michael | December 5, 2007 12:11 PM
Wow, those capacitor robots are a must for any EE!
Posted by: SteveM | December 5, 2007 12:19 PM
All of the various ?mases are just the many faces of the one true holiday: The Holy Shopping Season.
Posted by: Mark P | December 5, 2007 12:28 PM
I also heard that nerd-enclave Best Buy will be avoiding use of the term "Squidmas" this year in their advertising. Do the heathen nerds know no bounds?
Posted by: Andrew Shaffer | December 5, 2007 12:31 PM
This should raise your spirits:
http://www.boingboing.net/2007/12/05/99-octopus-xmas-tree.html
Posted by: anon1234 | December 5, 2007 12:48 PM
While I can certainly appreciate the traditions of mainstream Squidianity, as a practicing Cephalopotarian-Malacologist, I must object to the teuthist term "Squidmas."
As we approach the Winter Cephalopod Festival season, it's important to remember that we are all spermatophores in Cephalopoda, be we octopodes, teuthids, sepiids, nautiloids, or yes, even neo-ammonoids.
Posted by: HP | December 5, 2007 12:51 PM
Oh Squidmas tree,
Oh Squidmas tree,
How lovely are thy tentacles
Oh Squidmas tree,
Oh Squidmas tree,
They're reaching fhmmm mmmm gblx....
Posted by: Left_Wing_Fox | December 5, 2007 1:17 PM
Pah! I celebrate Newtonmass, so if anyone comes after me with a Mario Bros. decoration, I just drop an apple on their head.
Bob
Posted by: Bob O'H | December 5, 2007 1:29 PM
I wish they shipped the Mario decorations to the UK, they are so cool!
Posted by: Gobaskof | December 5, 2007 2:02 PM
Squidmas is ok, but Wintereenmas is better!
Posted by: Kelly | December 5, 2007 2:15 PM
or shows up wearing a stormtrooper helmet
You've just described 85% of our friends. I mean, even not on holidays. I guess I need to buy some extra 'podmas tentacles. What if we skip the tree this year, and just festoon a giant squid? Hrmmmm.....
Posted by: tikistitch | December 5, 2007 10:46 PM