Merry Christmas…but I hope your new year sucks
I don’t get political on my blog - mostly because I’m an equal opportunity hater when it comes to those kinds of things, but I can no longer ignore the Merry Christmas vs Happy Holidays Debate.
When you say Happy Holidays to me, I take it to mean Merry Christmas and Happy New Year (or for those so inclined Happy Hannakuah (my apologies to the entire Jewish faith for my bungled spelling) and Happy New Year or Happy Kwanza and Happy New Year, etc, etc).
So, to me, when you say Merry Christmas, you’re leaving out the Happy New Year part and basically saying, I hope you have a crappy-ass New Year.
But come on, we all know what we should really say, “Enjoy your frenzied orgy of spending and I hope you don’t have a hangover on January 1st.”
Until that comes into popular usage, it’s all about Happy Holidays for me.
December 16th, 2005 at 1:43 pm
See, now I’m of the opposite mind. I don’t get the whole “you have to be politically correct and say Happy Holidays” thing. I’ll wish people a Merry Christmas, because that’s the holiday that’s coming up. After Christmas, I’m all over the Happy New Year. It’d be like saying Happy Thanksgiving and expecting that to encompass Halloween too. Hmmm. Maybe that only works here in Canada :)
Of course, that all changes if I know for fact that you celebrate one of the others - Hannukkah, Kwanzaa, Ramadan, etc. Then I’ll say both.
December 17th, 2005 at 10:33 am
I’m all for saying Merry Christmas before Christmas, the day of and even a day or so after if I see someone I hadn’t seen at Christmas. Then I start wishing people Happy New Year up till New Years eve and the day or so after.
December 18th, 2005 at 5:58 pm
I just think it’s overanalyzed:shock:
Most signs say Happy Holidays so the businesses don’t have to buy two different ones. lol
And I’m for saying Merry Christmas on Christmas and Happy New Year on New Years and in between I say Happy Holidays.
I’m with you, Emma.