146174-merry-exile-christmas

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			Shades Eve is over...but OMG Christmas is coming and it's AWESOME https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GusVvmAoKU8	
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			....am i the only one that remembers that there is a holiday before christmas xD!? i feel like im the only one lmao
			
				
	Edited November 4, 2015 by Noble One	
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....am i the only one that remembers that there is a holiday before christmas xD!? i feel like im the only one lmao
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I have no idea what you are talking about, what is this magical holiday that is celebrated across the world and occurs before christmas?
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			This gets me very very VERY excited! =D My body is ready for Christmas (... let's not repeat that...)!	
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I think he means Black Friday. xD All those deals!
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I have no idea what you are talking about, what is this magical holiday that is celebrated across the world and occurs before christmas?
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			have to say, Thayd looks amazing on the PTR all decked out in Winterfestedness	
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			does this mean fraction snowball fights?	
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....am i the only one that remembers that there is a holiday before christmas xD!? i feel like im the only one lmao
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....am i the only one that remembers that there is a holiday before christmas xD!? i feel like im the only one lmao
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Psh.  Americans. 
 
Thanksgiving - the annual celebration of being thankful for not being killed while trying to sail the Northwest Passage, started by Martin Frobisher in 1578 - happened last month. 
 
Yes, some suggest it didn't actually start 'til Sam Champlain kicked in the Order of Good Cheer in 1604, and I personally don't see the real idea of Thanksgiving starting before 1763, when Halifax in Nova Scotia held the eventually-to-be-country's first official Thanksgiving holiday - a celebration of not being one of the hundreds of thousands killed during the Seven Years' War, fighting over somebody else's dirt. 
 
Even so, that was back in the middle of October.  Already celebrated.
 
[grins]
 
I can easily see reasons for Carbine - despite being an American company - to focus on holidays which draw on broader traditions [which includes aiming to make their Winter Holiday event less "Christmas" and more "Winterfest" - a more broadly northern European and less specifically Christian seasonal holiday].
			
				
	Edited November 4, 2015 by Gnapoleon	
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Psh.  Americans. 
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