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What are your favorite holiday symbols?

Trees, garlands, or other plant-life
12 (17.1%)
Colors (red, white, green, or perhaps others)
7 (10%)
Snowmen
9 (12.9%)
Santa
3 (4.3%)
Religious icons (Nativities, Candelabras, etc.)
12 (17.1%)
Reindeer
3 (4.3%)
Ethnic icons
0 (0%)
Gingerbread men or houses
3 (4.3%)
Lights
9 (12.9%)
Snowflakes
8 (11.4%)
Holiday Food (Yule logs, Fruitcake, etc.)
4 (5.7%)

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Holiday Survey!
« on: December 23, 2008, 10:16:15 PM »
What are your favorite holiday elements?

Let me know if I've missed something.
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Re: Holiday Survey!
« Reply #1 on: December 24, 2008, 01:54:54 AM »
How about Christmas Cake?

I always thought it was just a strange Japanese pseudo-Western thing like White Day, but apparently non-Japanese Christmas Cakes really do exist in the UK, Ireland, and other such countries (plus the Philippines).

...Well, there is fruitcake in the US which has holiday connotations, but it's never called Christmas Cake.
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Re: Holiday Survey!
« Reply #2 on: December 24, 2008, 03:32:46 AM »
Snow flakes?  I see snowmen on the list but we don't really get snow where I'm at so that's out for me.  But having Snow on or around Christmas is always a big deal down here.  So the symbol is heavily present.
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Re: Holiday Survey!
« Reply #3 on: December 24, 2008, 07:53:42 AM »
Added snowflakes and holiday food.

Yule logs are popular in some places, etc.

For me, Christmas always has been cookie season.  It's a family thing.  This year, lacking my grandmother, we still managed to make English Shortbreads, Filled Cookies (in raisin, strawberry, peach, apricot, and marmalade flavors), brownies, and caramel (it counts).  Oh, and caramel ice cream (doesn't really count, but still yummy).
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Re: Holiday Survey!
« Reply #4 on: December 24, 2008, 08:15:41 PM »
What about gifts and presents?

It's not the first thing that comes to mind, but I do always remember the small warehouse of presents my family would open on Christmas morning and into the afternoon. (We don't actually give each other a lot of gifts on Christmas, it's just a large family.)
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Re: Holiday Survey!
« Reply #5 on: December 24, 2008, 08:20:28 PM »
I thought yule logs were a kind of firewood.
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Re: Holiday Survey!
« Reply #6 on: December 24, 2008, 11:43:51 PM »
Quote from: Santooklaus on December 24, 2008, 08:20:28 PM
I thought yule logs were a kind of firewood.

It is both wood and a cake.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yule_log
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Re: Holiday Survey!
« Reply #7 on: December 25, 2008, 03:34:00 AM »
So there really is no difference between a "yule log" and a regular old peice of wood, right? It's just a log that you burn to celebrate Christmas/holidays? And i agree with 42 about the presents, my family is religious too, but we give each other quite a few gifts, not to mention my aunts/uncles
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Re: Holiday Survey!
« Reply #8 on: December 25, 2008, 07:45:32 AM »
Hmm...

Food. Gingerbread men is key to  good holiday fun.

I can't really add snow, since it usually always snows near Christmas and it's just taken for granted come the holiday season.  :D
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Re: Holiday Survey!
« Reply #9 on: December 25, 2008, 05:02:45 PM »
Snowmen!

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Re: Holiday Survey!
« Reply #10 on: January 07, 2009, 07:17:57 PM »
Well it's kind of more of a christmas survey than a holiday survey….just pointing that out.
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Re: Holiday Survey!
« Reply #11 on: January 07, 2009, 07:49:34 PM »
I like Penguins for Christmas iconery. :)


I wouldn't say santa, because I don't really like most of the santas that I've seen. What I like are the mysterious, tall, skinny santas.  The fat ones just smack too much of comercialism. :)
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Re: Holiday Survey!
« Reply #12 on: January 07, 2009, 07:58:16 PM »
I was in Arizona once and there was a Santa there and it was hysterical because he was completely drunk and practically tripping over his toes. 
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Re: Holiday Survey!
« Reply #13 on: January 07, 2009, 08:46:07 PM »
Quote from: Shaggy on January 07, 2009, 07:58:16 PM
I was in Arizona once and there was a Santa there and it was hysterical because he was completely drunk and practically tripping over his toes.

Just in the street? or was the mall santa drunk? :D
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Re: Holiday Survey!
« Reply #14 on: January 08, 2009, 02:21:34 AM »
Hehe but no he was in a hotel.   :P He probably had a rather late Christmas Eve…. ;D
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