You know it's finally the Christmas season when...

[PoolMan]

Every ad on the radio features someone speaking in rhyming couplets.

[pfrsue]

I switch to my humilated hound avatar.

[Lissa]

I definitely need to find me one with Jake Gyllenhaal in Jarhead. Santa hats indeed!

[Genetic Mishap]

* People lay off complaining about playing Christmas music in stores too early.

* Editorials about how the phrase "Happy Holidays" is a vast left-wing conspiracy show up in the paper.

* Little musical holiday pins and jingle bells on sweaters join in on the noise pollution.

[Magill]

lissa said:

I definitely need to find me one with Jake Gyllenhaal in Jarhead. Santa hats indeed!

I wouldn't mind him coming down my chimney!

[TheLuckyOne]

magill said:

I wouldn't mind him coming down my chimney!

*chokes on soda*

Must... not... say it! Resist... urge... to quip!

-D

[Magill]

Yeah, after I posted that I realized all of the entendres that were contained within. Oh well.

[Genetic Mishap]

I'll double your entendre, baby.

[PoolMan]

Ah, they call Drew Master of the Single Entendre anyways.

Back on topic:

* Justin traipses around in his RED boxers

[Spiderdancer]

... The local "soft favorites" station switches to playing:

a) original Xmas songs that are just like regular soft rock with "Christmas" tossed in somewhat at random. I Miss You and it's Christmas, I Love You and it's Christmas, I Hate You and it's Christmas, I Want a Man/Woman and it's Christmas, and so on.

b) Older Christmas favorites that new artists have updated by adding superfluous ululating syllables, so that silent night sounds like this: "SaaaHAYlent NAheeYAAheeYAAAIT...." "Away in a Manger" becomes an excellent example of Doppler broadening.

c) Emotionally manipulative songs about someone dying or learning an Important Christmas Lesson or both, like the one with the little boy who wants to buy his dying Mom a pair of shoes.

d) Songs that talk about the Children of the World and feature shrill little child voices singing the chorus.

[TheLuckyOne]

poolman said:

Ah, they call Drew Master of the Single Entendre anyways.

Hey, only until college!

And getting back to the purpose of the thread: when you realize it's been 2 full months since those two soft rock stations in the area started their 24-hour Christmas music rotation.

-D

[pfrsue]

- When eggnog takes on a featured place in your grocery store's dairy section.

- When you begin to consider the effects of ice and gravity on stepladders whilst trying to put up decorative lighting - and then you ask yourself why oh why you ever took the darned things down last year!

- When Christmas lists apparently meant for Bill Gates start to magically appear on your desk.

- When you need to take medication because the kids' band director is into medleys, so all you hear for the entire month are trumpet blurpings and flute whistlings of random and unconnected snippets of Christmas carols. Over and over and over...

- When the decorative pumpkins on the front porch collapse into wobbly putrefication.

[dajaymann]

pfrsue said:

- When the decorative pumpkins on the front porch collapse into wobbly putrefication.

That is so beautiful. And so very true.


Also:

-When the seizure-inducing blinking lights get put up at your work.

[Ms. Jellybean]

I can't believe no one has put this yet:

When Hot Topic puts up every imaginable piece of Nightmare Before Christmas merchandise in existence. (I'll also have you know I've kept every Nightmare Before Christmas bag from there, too, so I'm guilty of buying into it.)

[Big T]

When my brother starts saying things like: hmmmm... i should find out what people want for Christmas... Oooo Candy Canes!