Roy Bailey wrote:


Roy (who lists Ebenezer Scrooge as one of his heroes!)

But the whole point of the Scrooge character, in Dickens' "Christmas
Carol", was that he reformed and celebrated Christmas with the rest of
the trolls.
He rejoined the mainstream of silly spending, false jollification and
hypocritical mainstream christianity.
I remember from the days of my youth, a comedian called Tom Lehrer who
wrote and sang a Christmas song, which included the immortal lines;

"On Christmas day you can't get sore
your fellow man you must adore,
cause you'll have reason all the more
to screw him the other 364!"

He also sang;

"Hark the Herald Tribune sings
Advertising wondrous things,
Angels we have heard on high,
tell us to go out and buy.
God rest you merry merchants
may you make the yuletide pay".

As another poster said, celebrate the end of the dark nights, and the
hope of spring and light at the end. Just let's take the Fairy stories
and the Pixy God in the sky out of it.

Peter

--
He spoke with a certain what-is-it in his voice, and I
could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far
from being gruntled.
P.G. Wodehouse 1881 -1975