To All My Liberal Friends:

Please accept with no obligation, implied or implicit, my best wishes for an environmentally conscious, socially responsible, low-stress, non-addictive, gender-neutral celebration of the winter solstice holiday, practiced within the most enjoyable traditions of the religious persuasion of your choice, or secular practices of your choice, with respect for the religious/secular persuasion and/or traditions of others, or their choice not to practice religious or secular traditions at all. I also wish you a fiscally successful, personally fulfilling and medically uncomplicated recognition of the onset of the generally accepted calendar year 2010, but not without due respect for the calendars of choice of other cultures whose contributions to society have helped make Canada great. Not to imply that Canada is necessarily greater than any other country nor the only country in the Western Hemisphere . Also, this wish is made without regard to the race, creed, color, age, physical ability, religious faith or sexual preference of the wish.

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And To My Conservative Friends:

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year in the year of our Lord Jesus Christ 2010.

I passed your greeting through the legal department and they have returned it with the following changes

From us ("the wishor") to you ("hereinafter called the

wishee") Please accept without obligation, implied or

implicit, our best wishes for an environmentally conscious,

socially responsible, politically correct, low stress, non-

addictive, gender neutral, celebration of the winter

solstice holiday, practiced within the most enjoyable

traditions of the religious persuasion of your choice, or

secular practices of your choice, with respect for the

religious/secular persuasions and/or traditions of others,

or their choice not to practice religious or secular

traditions at all... and a financially successful,

personally fulfilling and medically uncomplicated

recognition of the onset of the generally accepted calendar

year 2001, but with due respect for the calendars of choice

of other cultures or sects, and having regard to the race,

creed, colour, age, physical ability, religious faith,

choice of computer platform or dietary preference of the

wishee.

By accepting this greeting you are bound by these terms that-

* This greeting is subject to further clarification or

withdrawal

* This greeting is freely transferable provided that no

alteration shall be made to the original greeting and that

the proprietary rights of the wishor are acknowledged.

* This greeting implies no promise by the wishor to actually

implement any of the wishes.

* This greeting may not be enforceable in certain

jurisdictions and/or the restrictions herein may not be

binding upon certain wishees in certain jurisdictions and is

revocable at the sole discretion of the wishor.

* This greeting is warranted to perform as reasonably may be

expected within the usual application of good tidings, for a

period of one year or until the issuance of a subsequent

holiday greeting, whichever comes first.

* The wishor warrants this greeting only for the limited

replacement of this wish or issuance of a new wish at the

sole discretion of the wishor

* Any references in this greeting to "the Lord", "Father

Christmas", "Our Saviour", or any other festive figures,

whether actual or fictitious, dead or alive, shall not imply

any endorsement by or from them in respect of this greeting,

and all proprietary rights in any referenced third party

names and images are hereby acknowledged.

And To My Conservative Friends:

I got news for you. It ain't only Christians who are conservatives.

And To My Conservative Friends:

I got news for you. It ain't only Christians who are conservatives.

Correct but do all them Celebrate Christmas? Anyways, yawn of topic.

The Amish are far too conservative to be Republicans: anti-abortion, anti-war, pacifists, still speak 18th century German, dress more conservatively than Warren G. Harding's grandparents, horse and buggy...and they celebrate Christmas as Jesus' birthday..

Merry Christmas to forum and Chiang Mai.

I accept your Holiday wishes, Bobbin. Thank you from a fellow Canadian. And, any of you who ARE Canadians will understand the humour behind the message. Canadians as a whole bend over backwards not to be offensive to anyone, and very often it's to a point of being ridiculous.

I ran it by my legal team and he made the following correction and sent apologies (coupled with a hold hamless agreement) that he could not find a smaller font.

I passed your greeting through the legal department and they have returned it with the following changes

From us ("the wishor") to you ("hereinafter called the

wishee") Please accept without obligation, implied or

implicit, our best wishes for an environmentally conscious,

socially responsible, politically correct, low stress, non-

addictive, gender neutral, celebration of the winter

solstice holiday, practiced within the most enjoyable

traditions of the religious persuasion of your choice, or

secular practices of your choice, with respect for the

religious/secular persuasions and/or traditions of others,

or their choice not to practice religious or secular

traditions at all... and a financially successful,

personally fulfilling and medically uncomplicated

recognition of the onset of the generally accepted calendar

year 2001, but with due respect for the calendars of choice

of other cultures or sects, and having regard to the race,

creed, colour, age, physical ability, religious faith,

choice of computer platform or dietary preference of the

wishee.

By accepting this greeting you are bound by these terms that-

* This greeting is subject to further clarification or

withdrawal

* This greeting is freely transferable provided that no

alteration shall be made to the original greeting and that

the proprietary rights of the wishor are acknowledged.

* This greeting implies no promise by the wishor to actually

implement any of the wishes.

* This greeting may not be enforceable in certain

jurisdictions and/or the restrictions herein may not be

binding upon certain wishees in certain jurisdictions and is

revocable at the sole discretion of the wishor.

* This greeting is warranted to perform as reasonably may be

expected within the usual application of good tidings, for a

period of one year or until the issuance of a subsequent

holiday greeting, whichever comes first.

* The wishor warrants this greeting only for the limited

replacement of this wish or issuance of a new wish at the

sole discretion of the wishor

* Any references in this greeting to "the Lord", "Father

Christmas", "Our Saviour", or any other festive figures,

whether actual or fictitious, dead or alive, shall not imply

any endorsement by or from them in respect of this greeting,

and all proprietary rights in any referenced third party

names and images are hereby acknowledged.

Umm, what about those of us that are not historical revisionists, nor pagans. After all, Jesus being a jew and all was born under a lunar calender and he certainly wasn't born on December 25. Nor can I recall the ancient Christians, most of whom were of devout jew origins celebrating woodland spirits and drinking eggnog around a pagan symbol. I can't see Jesus' family and the all the invitees sitting down for a dinner of ham either at his birth or at his bris.

I think there should be a warning label affixed to such greetings as to the unreliability of the sentiments expressed as they are are not based in fact.

humbug

I accept your Holiday wishes, Bobbin. Thank you from a fellow Canadian. And, any of you who ARE Canadians will understand the humour behind the message. Canadians as a whole bend over backwards not to be offensive to anyone, and very often it's to a point of being ridiculous.

so i have been advised

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