I like the Retail strip the other day when Corporate was trying to get Grumbel’s to start up the Christmas music already and Marla was doing her best to thwart it.
Wouldn’t the turkeys that are going to be sold for Thanksgiving be slaughtered soon?
This is – seriously – what the shelves of stores in FL look like . . .
Andréa, why would they be killed a month and a half early?
Thought I should point out that the Canadian Thanksgiving is Monday (Columbus Day in the States). And yeah, there’s a whole lot of turkeys being sold/bought right now…
There are frozen turkeys available now in UK supermarkets and we don’t eat them until Christmas.
“Wouldn’t the turkeys that are going to be sold for Thanksgiving be slaughtered soon?”
Yes.
Why do you ask?
Because that is why the turkey is seeking sanctuary so early, but we’re seeing it as ‘Thanksgiving creep.’
Well, you know the lead time with comic strips is several weeks, so that means that they …
no, wait a minute, that wouldn’t make a difference.
Never mind.
Our local Wally World already has lit fake Christmas trees up in the yard and garden dept.
The lead times for publishing comics and slaughtering turkeys are both irrelevant. Peters blew it, this comic should have waited its turn and appeared in early November.
Maybe he just wanted to be first with a Thanksgiving ‘joke’.
@ Andréa – That’s exactly the effect that leads to the “creeps”. With that justification, Peters could have printed this one in February, and avoided the rush.
‘-)
Tons of Christmas merchandise has been on the shelves for weeks, from Costco to Macy’s. The only nicety being observed is to not put up decorations until Halloween is over.
Old enough to remember when it wasn’t all about sales. When I was young it was about TV specials (animated and live action), televised parades, big Holiday Movies and weird Kiddie Matinees, making lists with the aid of the Sears catalog, chugging egg nog and liking it, driving slowly past The House That Got On The News For Its Decorations, and going to church in the evening because somebody was in a choir.
There was also the birth of Christ, but one didn’t want to dwell on how He’d view a celebration that centered on asking Santa for James Bond weaponry.
What was the question again?
Minor Annoyance, I hate to break it to you, but it was always about sales: why else would those holiday specials have been made?
Speaking of the old days, “shopping days until Christmas” wasn’t the same as “days until Christmas”.
Funnily enough, the classic Peanuts Christmas special made fun of holiday commercialism.
” the classic Peanuts Christmas special made fun of holiday commercialism.”
Although the coolest character, Snoopy, was on the side of the commercialists.
. . . in between the commercials.
Arthur, you remind me of childhood days in Indiana, when you couldn’t buy anything (except maybe gasoline) on Sundays. Run out of milk Saturday night? Tough.
And the FIRST thing I thought of when I read “. . . childhood days in Indiana’, was Jean Shepherd’s “A Christmas Story”.
Does anyone remember who the sponsor of “A Charlie Brown Christmas” was, and whether the kids were in the commercials? I don’t.
However, I did see the Rankin-Bass “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” when it was first broadcast. The sponsor was GE, and the commercials were stop-action with elf characters but not the main characters of the show. They put GE light bulbs onto the tree.
MiB, Wikipedia has some of the answers (and they might even be right):
“The original broadcasts included references to the sponsor, Coca-Cola.[33][34] Subsequent broadcasts and home media releases have excised all references to Coca-Cola products.”
Maybe they were referring to our (Canada’s) Thanksgiving (which was yesterday)?
@Eisenhomer: There was a STAR TREK episode (I think TNG, but don’t recall just which one) where someone (Uhuru?) noted in passing that it “was Thanksgiving back on Earth.” So apparently in the future, Canada and the U.S. will get together on a single date (and force all the other nations to celebrate it as well)?
Speaking of creep, my breakfast this morning included a couple of “Pumpkin Spice muffins.”
(At least I bought them at close-out prices.)
Boise Ed – There are still some areas of New Jersey which have blue laws yet.
As I recall from my brief stint in law school (one year less than I needed to be a lawyer) – in most states the blue laws said that there were no sales on Sunday, there was a case in which someone who was Jewish filed a complaint against the law as they close on Saturday – decision was that it fine for them to close on Saturday, but that they had to close Sunday no matter what. In NY, though, the law had an exemption – the business had to close on Sundays unless they closed a different day of the week for religious reasons.
Due to this “loophole” husband remembers when he was a kid they would go to “Jewish 13th Avenue” near where he lived in Brooklyn and to downtown Manhattan (a Jewish area) to shop on Sundays as the stores were open there.
Christmas stuff comes out in stages.
Craft items to make things for the holiday come out in the summer. (As someone who once was sitting the night before both families were coming for Thanksgiving dinner and I should have been cooking – but was a painting a ceramic teddy bear riding on a turkey napkin holder instead, it is never too early to start craft projects for holidays.)
Decorations come first of the Christmas departments. One needs to see and plan what they need/want to update their decorations – but don’t wait or they will sell out ( I bought a little Christmas village popcorn cart the first time I saw it this year as last year I waited until the second week and it was sold out). People in cold weather areas tend to put the outside decorations early when it is warm enough to do so. We tend to put ours up in mid to late November, but not turn on the lights until after Thanksgiving or if we go to Williamsburg for Grand Illumination(first weekend in December) – after we return home from same.
Wrapping paper and gifts will come out later on.
“someone (Uhuru?) noted in passing that it “was Thanksgiving back on Earth.” So apparently in the future, Canada and the U.S. will get together on a single date (and force all the other nations to celebrate it as well)?”
Or, it’s Thanksgiving on more than one day back on Earth. If it’s Thanksgiving in Canada, it’s Thanksgiving “back on Earth”, then a month later it’s Thanksgiving in the United States and again it’s Thanksgiving “back on Earth”. Then, six months later it’s Thanksgiving in Australia, and thus “back on Earth”.
You’re assuming that “back on Earth” means “EVERYWHERE on Earth” rather than “ANYWHERE on Earth”. They solved a lot of intercultural arguments about what year it is by referring to “Stardates” rather than adopting anyone’s year-counting mechanic.
So apparently in the future, Canada and the U.S. will get together on a single date (and force all the other nations to celebrate it as well)?
Are there still separate nations on Earth at that point? Maybe it’s like Futurama, where there’s a single Earth government, but it’s clearly a case of the USA absorbing everyone else.
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Creepy, indeed!
I like the Retail strip the other day when Corporate was trying to get Grumbel’s to start up the Christmas music already and Marla was doing her best to thwart it.
Wouldn’t the turkeys that are going to be sold for Thanksgiving be slaughtered soon?
This is – seriously – what the shelves of stores in FL look like . . .
Andréa, why would they be killed a month and a half early?
Thought I should point out that the Canadian Thanksgiving is Monday (Columbus Day in the States). And yeah, there’s a whole lot of turkeys being sold/bought right now…
There are frozen turkeys available now in UK supermarkets and we don’t eat them until Christmas.
“Wouldn’t the turkeys that are going to be sold for Thanksgiving be slaughtered soon?”
Yes.
Why do you ask?
Because that is why the turkey is seeking sanctuary so early, but we’re seeing it as ‘Thanksgiving creep.’
Well, you know the lead time with comic strips is several weeks, so that means that they …
no, wait a minute, that wouldn’t make a difference.
Never mind.
Our local Wally World already has lit fake Christmas trees up in the yard and garden dept.
The lead times for publishing comics and slaughtering turkeys are both irrelevant. Peters blew it, this comic should have waited its turn and appeared in early November.
Maybe he just wanted to be first with a Thanksgiving ‘joke’.
@ Andréa – That’s exactly the effect that leads to the “creeps”. With that justification, Peters could have printed this one in February, and avoided the rush.
‘-)
Tons of Christmas merchandise has been on the shelves for weeks, from Costco to Macy’s. The only nicety being observed is to not put up decorations until Halloween is over.
Old enough to remember when it wasn’t all about sales. When I was young it was about TV specials (animated and live action), televised parades, big Holiday Movies and weird Kiddie Matinees, making lists with the aid of the Sears catalog, chugging egg nog and liking it, driving slowly past The House That Got On The News For Its Decorations, and going to church in the evening because somebody was in a choir.
There was also the birth of Christ, but one didn’t want to dwell on how He’d view a celebration that centered on asking Santa for James Bond weaponry.
What was the question again?
Minor Annoyance, I hate to break it to you, but it was always about sales: why else would those holiday specials have been made?
Speaking of the old days, “shopping days until Christmas” wasn’t the same as “days until Christmas”.
Funnily enough, the classic Peanuts Christmas special made fun of holiday commercialism.
” the classic Peanuts Christmas special made fun of holiday commercialism.”
Although the coolest character, Snoopy, was on the side of the commercialists.
. . . in between the commercials.
Arthur, you remind me of childhood days in Indiana, when you couldn’t buy anything (except maybe gasoline) on Sundays. Run out of milk Saturday night? Tough.
And the FIRST thing I thought of when I read “. . . childhood days in Indiana’, was Jean Shepherd’s “A Christmas Story”.
Does anyone remember who the sponsor of “A Charlie Brown Christmas” was, and whether the kids were in the commercials? I don’t.
However, I did see the Rankin-Bass “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” when it was first broadcast. The sponsor was GE, and the commercials were stop-action with elf characters but not the main characters of the show. They put GE light bulbs onto the tree.
MiB, Wikipedia has some of the answers (and they might even be right):
“The original broadcasts included references to the sponsor, Coca-Cola.[33][34] Subsequent broadcasts and home media releases have excised all references to Coca-Cola products.”
Above from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Charlie_Brown_Christmas
Maybe they were referring to our (Canada’s) Thanksgiving (which was yesterday)?
@Eisenhomer: There was a STAR TREK episode (I think TNG, but don’t recall just which one) where someone (Uhuru?) noted in passing that it “was Thanksgiving back on Earth.” So apparently in the future, Canada and the U.S. will get together on a single date (and force all the other nations to celebrate it as well)?
Speaking of creep, my breakfast this morning included a couple of “Pumpkin Spice muffins.”
(At least I bought them at close-out prices.)
Boise Ed – There are still some areas of New Jersey which have blue laws yet.
As I recall from my brief stint in law school (one year less than I needed to be a lawyer) – in most states the blue laws said that there were no sales on Sunday, there was a case in which someone who was Jewish filed a complaint against the law as they close on Saturday – decision was that it fine for them to close on Saturday, but that they had to close Sunday no matter what. In NY, though, the law had an exemption – the business had to close on Sundays unless they closed a different day of the week for religious reasons.
Due to this “loophole” husband remembers when he was a kid they would go to “Jewish 13th Avenue” near where he lived in Brooklyn and to downtown Manhattan (a Jewish area) to shop on Sundays as the stores were open there.
Christmas stuff comes out in stages.
Craft items to make things for the holiday come out in the summer. (As someone who once was sitting the night before both families were coming for Thanksgiving dinner and I should have been cooking – but was a painting a ceramic teddy bear riding on a turkey napkin holder instead, it is never too early to start craft projects for holidays.)
Decorations come first of the Christmas departments. One needs to see and plan what they need/want to update their decorations – but don’t wait or they will sell out ( I bought a little Christmas village popcorn cart the first time I saw it this year as last year I waited until the second week and it was sold out). People in cold weather areas tend to put the outside decorations early when it is warm enough to do so. We tend to put ours up in mid to late November, but not turn on the lights until after Thanksgiving or if we go to Williamsburg for Grand Illumination(first weekend in December) – after we return home from same.
Wrapping paper and gifts will come out later on.
“someone (Uhuru?) noted in passing that it “was Thanksgiving back on Earth.” So apparently in the future, Canada and the U.S. will get together on a single date (and force all the other nations to celebrate it as well)?”
Or, it’s Thanksgiving on more than one day back on Earth. If it’s Thanksgiving in Canada, it’s Thanksgiving “back on Earth”, then a month later it’s Thanksgiving in the United States and again it’s Thanksgiving “back on Earth”. Then, six months later it’s Thanksgiving in Australia, and thus “back on Earth”.
You’re assuming that “back on Earth” means “EVERYWHERE on Earth” rather than “ANYWHERE on Earth”. They solved a lot of intercultural arguments about what year it is by referring to “Stardates” rather than adopting anyone’s year-counting mechanic.
So apparently in the future, Canada and the U.S. will get together on a single date (and force all the other nations to celebrate it as well)?
Are there still separate nations on Earth at that point? Maybe it’s like Futurama, where there’s a single Earth government, but it’s clearly a case of the USA absorbing everyone else.