Wednesday, December 24, 2008

Happy Holidays!

“Happy Holidays” is a nice, safe greeting for this time of year, but, really, it's not distinct enough. Greetings like “Merry Christmas” and “Happy Chanukah” are reasonably unique. But 'Happy Holidays' isn't even unique in its first three syllables, as I discovered the hard way today. I'm still cringing, every time I remember what I said to my supermarket clerk this morning: Happy Halloween!”

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

And a merry boxer's day!

Cheers!

Martin Langeland said...

Nu? Now you are Precession Blogging?
--ml

tobyr21@gmail.com said...

Martin,
"Precession Blogging" is a brilliant bit of wordplay. Thanks!
-PB