12 Responses to “Santa Creep”

1. #1 |  Ben |  November 10th, 2008 at 11:05 am

   Wally World was playing Christmas music the day after halloween. :(

2. #2 |  Eric Cope |  November 10th, 2008 at 11:14 am

   Gotta get people spending their money for the season.

3. #3 |  ALowe |  November 10th, 2008 at 11:23 am

   The radio station they play here at work has been playing it since the beginning of last week.

4. #4 |  Rob S |  November 10th, 2008 at 11:24 am

   Promoting Christmas before Thanksgiving = instant boycott.

5. #5 |  witless chum |  November 10th, 2008 at 11:29 am

   Now, how can anyone complain about a war on Christmas, when it’s clearly fired the first shot?

6. #6 |  Dan Hill |  November 10th, 2008 at 12:55 pm

   You ought to go to the Philippines. The unofficial rule is they only play Christmas music in the malls in months ending in “ber”. What comes right after 31 August?

7. #7 |  Dave Krueger |  November 10th, 2008 at 1:36 pm

   Holiday campaigns are like election campaigns. The next one starts immediately after the last one.

   I’ve come to loath both.

8. #8 |  David Gillies |  November 10th, 2008 at 2:06 pm

   I heard my first bit of Xmas Muzak in a department store here in Costa Rica on the 24th October.

9. #9 |  Boston |  November 10th, 2008 at 2:24 pm

   Friendly Letters? Who are you IOZ?

10. #10 |  A.G. Pym |  November 10th, 2008 at 3:45 pm

    Our local Costco had the first xmas stuff up just after the 4th of July.

11. #11 |  deadcenter |  November 10th, 2008 at 11:19 pm

    home depot on 29 Oct

12. #12 |  kishnevi |  November 10th, 2008 at 11:54 pm

    How about this? the norm for starting to sell calendars for the next year is now June.

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