‘Tis the season
Halloween is over, and you know what that means: it’s time to start peddling stuff for the Christmas season, and it’s also time to start up the War on Christmas again. You can do both at the same time!
Last year, we created the Happy Monkey greeting card set. You can still get them! And you should get them soon, because you don’t want to leave all your postal obligations dangling until the last minute, and risk Aunt Gladys getting her Happy Monkey card on New Year’s Eve, meaning that she spent all of Christmas dinner glaring at you for your neglect.
But this year, we are dialing the knob up several notches beyond Monkey, all the way up to Squid. Yes, it’s true: you can now confound and confuse and conniptulate your relatives by sending them Squidmas cards. Also, they’re adorable.
And if that’s not enough, remember that the Pharyngula store has plenty of baffling geegaws to stuff into Squidmas stockings.
Tony–Queer Duck Overlord of The Bronze–:
November 8th, 2012 at 2:32 pm
This is all part of your attempt to de-Christianize Christmas, eh PZ. We see right through you with those “secular” values.
rq:
November 8th, 2012 at 2:42 pm
The squid are so cute — they’re squee-d!!
troll:
November 8th, 2012 at 2:42 pm
I envy you. Around here, christmas shit started showing up in late September.
Audley Z. Darkheart (liar and scoundrel):
November 8th, 2012 at 3:26 pm
OMG, the Squidmas card makes me wish that I actually enjoyed Xmas.
But I don’t. /Scrooge
jonmilne:
November 8th, 2012 at 3:42 pm
I’m sorry, I have to channel Daniel Bryan here:
NO! NO! NO! NO!
Please, PZ, not you too?! Please please please do not start referencing Christmas now! For goodness’ sake man, IT’S NOVEMBER! It’s not even the right month!
You’re fighting the valiant fight against cat pictures dominating the internet. Won’t anyone join me in my valiant fight against referencing Christmas in any way shape or form when it’s not even the right month for it? I don’t recall the 12 Days of Christmas song referencing November *once*, sir! In fact, I don’t remember *any* festive songs referencing November!
Save us from the conformist madness!
(I mean yeah okay I bought three advent calendars already but nobody separates me from fancy packaged white chocolate. That or my wheel of cheese. My point is that my interest is purely in the chocolate, not any coincidental festive event it’s attached to!)
Help us PZ, you’re our only hope.
ChasCPeterson:
November 8th, 2012 at 3:45 pm
those squids have their mouths in the wrong place.
And insufficient tentaclation.
Jake Squid:
November 8th, 2012 at 3:55 pm
Wait. How did you know about my Aunt Gladys?
DLC:
November 8th, 2012 at 5:50 pm
Ahh. wonderful. The war on Christmas has commenced again.
ChasCPeterson:
November 8th, 2012 at 6:08 pm
I believe this might actually be Rebecca Watson’s fault.
obscure1:
November 8th, 2012 at 9:36 pm
Merry Atheistmas and Happy Nuclear Winter
crowepps:
November 8th, 2012 at 10:56 pm
Somebody needs to do these squidlings in plush — adorable!
davem:
November 9th, 2012 at 4:14 am
Me, me, me! But if we’re fighting the C-word, we need to re-discover Saturnalia and the true reason for the season. …and move it back to Dec 21st, to account for precession.
rq:
November 9th, 2012 at 6:23 am
I would say, to balance the frivolities of Midsummer, just call it Midwinter and drag ye olde logge around the house and burn it (the log not the house), like all good Latvians do this time of year. That, and throw pigs’ heads over the house for good luck.
Yeah. Best not to ask.
blf:
November 9th, 2012 at 8:10 am
Not burn the house! How am I supposed to clean the lair?
Ogvorbis: broken and cynical:
November 9th, 2012 at 8:25 am
Acid? Flamethrower? Bazooka? Mazurka? Balalaika?
bradleybetts:
November 9th, 2012 at 8:39 am
” Audley Z. Darkheart (liar and scoundrel) says:
8 November 2012 at 3:26 pm
OMG, the Squidmas card makes me wish that I actually enjoyed Xmas.
But I don’t. /Scrooge”
How can you not enjoy Xmas!!? It’s fantastic excuse to get the whole family together and eat waaaaaaay to much while getting ridiculously drunk on a mixture of beer, mulled wine, wine, port and whiskey; possibly with some sherry thrown in for good luck.
…At least, that’s how my family does it. It’s great. Especially since Grandad can’t handle neat whiskey anymore and refuses to pollute single malt with a mixer, which means he gives it all to me :)
blf:
November 9th, 2012 at 8:48 am
If I can’t burn the house, where’s left to enjoy?
Ogvorbis: broken and cynical:
November 9th, 2012 at 9:07 am
Obligatory link.
bradleybetts:
November 9th, 2012 at 9:31 am
So I followed the link and dutifully listened to the song and… wow. Is that what music used to sound like? ‘Cause I can totally see how that would ruin the holiday season for you.
Ogvorbis: broken and cynical:
November 9th, 2012 at 9:40 am
bradley:
Music from when I was young. I came of age in the 80s. Which explains a lot.
blf:
November 9th, 2012 at 10:03 am
2090-ish years ago? Wow!
Oh, sorry, you don’t mean BCE.
Only 1930-ish years ago. That’s nothing…
Ogvorbis: broken and cynical:
November 9th, 2012 at 10:40 am
1980s. CE.
TriffidPruner:
November 9th, 2012 at 12:13 pm
Can we all agree to send Squidmas cards to Bill O’Reilly? We might induce apoplexy.
carlie:
November 10th, 2012 at 8:17 am
Also, they do not normally dress as Christmas trees or give wrapped presents to others. This card is an outrage!
I still have Happy Monkey cards from last year, because I’m crap at sending out cards.
I covet the Darwin messenger bag, but have been told I have too many bags already. :(
a3kr0n:
November 10th, 2012 at 8:51 am
They seem to be mocking our traditions in a cute and delightful way.
Ogvorbis: broken and cynical:
November 10th, 2012 at 8:58 am
a3kron:
Traditions are meant to be mocked. It is traditional, even.
Ogvorbis: broken and cynical:
November 10th, 2012 at 8:59 am
Which means we should mock the tradition of mocking tradition. That would also be traditional. Which means . . . No. Not going there. (I think I see how weird things like “The Song of Songs” get started.)