I cannot state how much I hate the word Crimbo. It looks absolutely awful written down, it sounds absolutely awful when you say it and it has seemingly no relationship to the actually word Christmas.
I don't mind xmas (or even x-mas) as that is a valid abbreviation, and there is something quite cool about the fact that people see and use X (a cross) as a shortening of Christ. I mean, if you are going to shorten the word Christmas you couldn't really do it theologically any better.
I think the only good thing about all this excess use as of late of the word Crimbo is that hopefully in a few years time people will say "Oh that Crimbo word is so 2003, lets just go back to using Christmas or Xmas or whatever".
Apologies to the three people (if any of them read this) who sent me something today with the word Crimbo in it. Special apologies to the last one in case I came off as over defensive of the use of the word xmas. Sorry. Crimbo still sucks though.
(8) Silence
(t) Ellie
typing 'christmas' too much causes finger fatigue!
Well said Mark. Xmas is okay, I just never use it myself.
Agreed Ted. [b]|\\|//|\\|//|\\|//|[/b]
Cheap Website (mumbles)
Cheap? Because I don't allow Bulletin Board type code? Only HTML is good enough for me. Oh yeah.
We can use html? Oh goody.
wooooooooooooooooooob
Some, not all. i, em, b, u, strong, s, del,ins, sup, sub,a href,img src/alt/height/width, are the only ones. I think.
Better than nothing.
Hello ppl, i couldnt agree more its christmas or its xmas, but crimbo thats not even clever! pffff
del + ins?
*looks them up*
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I have always disliked the use of xmas. I feel that many people use it as a way to blank out Christ from Christmas. Christmas should just be spelled Christmas, no substitutes. But that's just me.