Let's try an experiment!

[buckettgirl]

I have seen many posts in DU talking about how fundies try to make people say "Merry Christmas" no matter where they are or who they are talking to.
Soo....
I want to spread Holiday cheer! I want to lift people's spirits. I also want to piss off the fundies!
I propose an experiment: Go to you local walmart, mall, kmart, target, wherever - as long as there are lots of people. Whenever you see someone, make eye contact and say "HAPPY HOLIDAYS!", "SEASON'S GREETINGS!", "HAPPY SOLSTICE!" (anything but Merry Christmas), being as cheerful and kind as you can. Lets see how many of these fundies we can weed out.
I think it would be pretty darn funny.
I intend to do this next time I am out shopping.
I think it is a good idea!

[In Truth We Trust]

1. Sounds like fun but I suggest you boycott Xmas this year and do not go

to Walmart especially in protest of the election fraWd.

[tanyev]

3. You can go there (if you can stomach it)

just don't buy anything. Mischief making is always allowed.

[buckettgirl]

8. ideally that would be nice

but that is not reality where I am. Not to mention that I can't go along with the whole boycotting thing...
sorry

[fob]

2. THAT is probably the ONLY reason I would go into a Mall-Wart.

Don't buy nothing, just push a cart around and weed out fundies! Be sure to fill the cart and spread things around to make sure the employees have work to do, wouldn't want anyone laid off during the HOLIDAY season!

Happy Festivus!!

[buckettgirl]

9. EXACTLY! WOOHOO ! n/t

[New Democrat]

22. No reason to punish the employees

The employees are not responsible for walmart being so horrible for America. The employees are victims of Wal Mart also. Many of them are mothers or fathers who have to support their children making barely over minumum wage at Wal Mart. Give them a break.

[eleny]

4. A generic "Happy Holidays" pin might drum up some notice, too

[AllegroRondo]

5. Happy Festivus!

[ProdigalJunkMail]

7. would you carry around a metal pole??? n/t

[fob]

10. I think it has to be an aluminum pole, I believe a tent pole from the

Outdoors/Sporting department would suffice. The excitement begins when the Feats of Strength starts in Housewares!

[ProdigalJunkMail]

13. hell yeah

or in the sporting goods dept

[JHB]

6. Cthulhu ftaghn!

May you be eaten first!

[Skidmore]

11. This cultural reference is just eluding me.

Help.

[Walt Starr]

14. Necronomicon

Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn

The Mad Arab Abdul Alhazred

H. P, Lovecraft and weird tales of the Old Ones. Excellent horror fiction!

[Skidmore]

15. I'll explore that. Sound interesting. Thanks for the

enlightenment.

[Taxloss]

16. HP Lovecraft, US author, b1890 d1937

Created an elaborate and detailed cosmology to form the basis of horror stories. It was later referred to as the "Cthulu Mythos", after its most prominent god, Cthulu.

Other gods include Yog Sothoth and Nyarlathotep.

As a fictional and horrible belief system, it's great for scaring fundies with.

[Skidmore]

17. For some reason, I've never explored any of his writings

and this sounds like a good intense read. Forget fundies, it'll probably scare me.

:D

[Taxloss]

18. Oh, they're very good.

But some of them are impenetrably weird.

A good starting point is "Cool Air", a very short story that doesn't go into the mythos but gives a brilliant picture of what a suspenseful writer HPL could be. "At the Mountains of Madness" and "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward" are both much longer and weirder, but excellent and good introductions.

[Skidmore]

19. Thanks for the suggestions. Should make some absorbing

Holiday reading! How's that for blasphemy?

[Taxloss]

20. Well, it's all good fun. Lovecraft didn't believe it himself.

If you want pure blasphemy, read Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy. That's brilliant.

[JHB]

21. Obscure literary reference (horror genre)

Cthulhu is a monstrous entity who lies "dead but dreaming" in the city of R'lyeh, a place of non-Euclidean madness presently (and mercifully) sunken below the depths of the Pacific Ocean. Cthulhu appears in various monstrous and demonic forms in early myths of the human race. Racial memory preserves Him as humanity's most basic nightmare. Cthulhu is the high priest of the Great Old Ones, unnatural alien beings who ruled the Earth before humanity formed, worshipped as gods by some misguided people. It is said that They will return, causing worldwide insanity and mindless violence before finally displacing humanity forever.

http://www.cthulhu.org/cthulhu/index.html

The "May you be eaten first" part refers to a Jack Chick-style spoof that I unfortunately don't have a URL for (the gist of it being that your only hope of "salvation" (NOT having to witness the horrors that befall mankind) is to be eaten FIRST).

[ArkDem]

12. Or 'Get a life'!

[CornField]

23. If you really want to cause a stir

When someone tells you "Merry Christmas" take a moment to thank them and then explain that you don't celebrate Christmas. In turn, wish them a Merry Yule/Happy Solstice or whatever holiday greeting is appropriate for your religious beliefs (or lack thereof).

I did this yesterday to a couple of cashiers and bell ringers. It pretty much floored them.