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.
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We're so oppressed!
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thou shalt have no other squid before me
Wow, those capacitor robots are a must for any EE!
All of the various ?mases are just the many faces of the one true holiday: The Holy Shopping Season.
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?
This should raise your spirits:
http://www.boingboing.net/2007/12/05/99-octopus-xmas-tree.html
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.
Oh Squidmas tree,
Oh Squidmas tree,
How lovely are thy tentacles
Oh Squidmas tree,
Oh Squidmas tree,
They're reaching fhmmm mmmm gblx....
Pah! I celebrate Newtonmass, so if anyone comes after me with a Mario Bros. decoration, I just drop an apple on their head.
Bob
I wish they shipped the Mario decorations to the UK, they are so cool!
Squidmas is ok, but Wintereenmas is better!
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.....