Posts Tagged ‘Christmas’

SUCKS TO BE Santa in a recession

Thursday, December 24th, 2009
"Ho! Ho! Hold 'em up!"

"Ho! Ho! Hold 'em up!"

If you think the economy has only affected auto workers and Wall Street types who can’t balance a checkbook, just look north friends. Because Santa Claus, Inc. is in the red big time.

It’s gotten so bad that to increase cash flow, jolly old St. Nick has resorted to robbing banks.

The big guy was spotted in Nashville with a loaded gun and his big Santa sack emptied of presents and waiting to be filled with ill-gotten gain.

Sucks to be buying your presents instead of getting elves to make them, hey Santa? But when your business model includes an enormous labor force, lots of travel expenses and the worst distribution model in the history of distribution models, it’s only a matter of time before your corporate empire goes AIG.

So kids, if you’re expecting an expensive X-Box or a tricked out bike under the tree, don’t get your hopes up. Because this might be the year that Santa hands out those misfit toys.

SUCKS TO BE living next to Danielle Copeland, overzealous Christmas light displayer

Friday, December 4th, 2009
FIRE! FIRE! Uh, no... nevermind.

FIRE! FIRE! Uh, no... nevermind.

Not to sound like the love child of Ebenezer Scrooge and the Grinch, but there’s a lot about Christmas that sucks.  Roid-raging blue hairs knocking you into the next aisle for the last Tickle Me Elmo. Christmas carolers making you get up from the marathon edition of Hoarders. Vodka-soaked mall Santas. Yeah, they all bring the true meaning of Christmas to its yule-tide knees.

But nothing makes you yearn for December 26th more than a neighbor with a Christmas light fetish. They’re in every city. Every hamlet. Every town. That one neighbor who thinks that unless their house is visible from the friggin’ space station, they ain’t Christmas enough.

In Panama City, Florida, that neighbor is one Danielle Copeland. Danielle has adorned her humble abode with 16,000 twinkling lights. Sixteen thousand. That’s enough wattage to make Thomas Edison get hard.

Danielle has lights on every part of her home. The porch. The roof. The lawn. The crapper, probably.

And the neighbors are none too pleased with Danielle’s decorations. Besides risking permanent blindness every time they pull in the driveway, they have to deal with the bright sleepless nights and the giddy little news reporters clogging up the cul-de-sac and stomping all over the azalias to get a shot of the plastic Santa on the roof.

Sucks to be living next to the real-life Griswolds.

SUCKS TO BE Hillier Garden Centre, The Sexist Place

Monday, November 30th, 2009
Hillier-Clothesline-Sexist

Actual advert from Hillier Garden Centre shown here.

Make your wife “feel special this Christmas” by buying her a rotary clothesline.

Not diamonds. Not a day at the spa. Not even the classic (yet thoughtless) lotion and body wash duo from Bath & Bodyworks.

Guys, nothing says, “I love and respect you, dearest wife,” like a clothesline. While you’re at it, be sure to grab her a washboard, some laundry detergent and a folding table. All the accoutrements she needs to keep things in perfect order—so she can also get a hot meal on the table by the time you get home from work.

Hillier’s Garden Centre, it sucks to be you this holiday season. Because if any man follows the advice in your clothesline ad, you’re going to have a different kind of line out the door the day after Christmas. A line full of female customers with some very unladylike things they’d like to say.