So you can make up "virtual buttons" in Facebook. Pieces of Flair, they call it.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

In a nod to the Office Space restaurant worker (Jennifer Aniston). There's a collection of Xmas buttons there. Most are just cutesy. But... there's always some Grinches, innit?



(Wait a sec, this one is supposed to be unfavorable to Santa?)

[moggie]

1. You know, the Nazis had pieces of flair that they made the Jews wear

That xmas one is particularly lame. Doesn't the abbreviation go back 1000 years, and didn't it originate with Christians?

[onager]

3. Yes and yes.

The word "Christ" and its compounds, including "Christmas", have been abbreviated in English for at least the past 1,000 years, long before the modern "Xmas" was commonly used.

"Christ" was often written as "XP" or "Xt"; there are references in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle as far back as AD 1021...

Nevertheless, some believe that the term is part of an effort to "take Christ out of Christmas" or to literally "cross out Christ"; it is seen as evidence of the secularization of Christmas, as a symptom of the commercialization of the holiday (as the abbreviation has long been used by retailers)...

In many manuscripts of the New Testament and icons, X is an abbreviation for Christos, as is XC (the first and last letters in Greek, using the lunate sigma); compare IC for Jesus in Greek. The Oxford English Dictionary documents the use of this abbreviation back to 1551, 50 years before the first English colonists arrived in North America and 60 years before the King James Version of the Bible was completed. At the same time, Xian and Xianity were in frequent use as abbreviations of "Christian" and "Christianity"; and nowadays still are sometimes so used, but much less than "Xmas".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xmas

So all those thin-skinned Xians in R&T can just bite me...

:evilgrin:

[trotsky]

4. thin-skinned and IGNORANT

Of their own Koresh-damned religion. Why does it take an atheist to teach a Christian about their own religion?

[muriel_volestrangler]

2. I'd read all those green/red ones as saying 'Santa = Jesus'

which is generally something an atheist would say. Given that, when pressed hard, most adults admit Santa is made-up.

[immoderate]

5. Santa is god in a red suit.

--IMM