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Anonymous

Years ago

36ers to play Christmas Eve

Ricey post # 63886

Does this mean you don't celebrate Christmas with the Griswalds?

I'll bet you don't even recognise the Easter Beagle either. The Easter Beagle personified (or cananised, or canonised) the Christian message of Easter. Snoopy's Christmas also spread the Christmas message.

There are some great pop-cultural holiday appropriations that rise above the commercialisation of religious celebrations.

Couple auto co-wrecktions fixed above.

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Anonymous

Years ago

Rickey post # 63886

Does this mean you don't celebrate Christmas with the Griswalds?

I'll bet you don't even recognise the Easter Beagle instead. The Easter Beagle personified (or cananised, or canonised) the Christian message of Easter. Snoopy's Christmas also spread the Christmas message.

There are some great pop-cultural holiday appropriations that rise above the commercialisation of religious celebrations.

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Anonymous

Years ago

Jus as long as the NBL don't try to schedule a game that clashes with National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation.

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Cuszy

Years ago

If it's an exclsive article and never published anywhere else online you will NEVER see it.

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Ricey

Years ago

Should be a solid crowd though you'd imagine. Good move...

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Julian

Years ago

Well it's Christmas in July now.

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Ricey

Years ago

Yeah, got me on one point, but it's been shown that Jesus wasn't even born in December. So in the larger scheme of things I'm right. So yes, the celebration is still on the wrong date whether it be Christmas Eve or day.

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Agent Orange

Years ago

It's a damn shame, Christmas eve I'm normally nude dancing around an old oak tree celebrating Dies Natalis Solis Invicti... as it the traditional Roman way...

I guess i can try and fit some basketball in before we get to the sacrificing of a goat to appease the great and glorious Sun God.

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Julian

Years ago

^^^ haha nice :D

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Double Clutch

Years ago

I am glad that the game is xmas eve, so I can have the 25th free to celebrate the birth of Santa Claus.

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Julian

Years ago

"And what's more commercial than celebrating the birth of somebody on the wrong date lol"

With this classic logic why do we celebrate New Year's Eve instead of just New Year's Day? hahaha

Alright now back to the bball...

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Julian

Years ago

Ricey please stop posting. :|

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Julian

Years ago

"And what's more commercial than celebrating the birth of somebody on the wrong date lol"

Wow... really? It's celebrating the eve of the birth. Moron! and saying "wrong date" goes to show you only view it in the commerical sense. Point made, thanks.

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Jack Toft

Years ago

Ricey, what a cynical view on life. Next, you'll tell me that Christmas is just a Pagan festival taken over by Christians and that the Jesus story is just the retelling of the story of an Egyptian boy called Horus.

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Ricey

Years ago

And what's more commercial than celebrating the birth of somebody on the wrong date lol

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Ricey

Years ago

If it hasn't been commercialised then what are all those movies and tv shows and everything else focused on that night for?

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Wookiee

Years ago

lol... and the award for the most pretentious anon post of the off season goes to...

Great to see a Xmas Eve game on this year, I'm amazed that it took so long for it to happen!

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Isaac

Years ago

Ricey Eve hasn't been commercialised. Very traditional still as opposed to the morning after.

I think loads of pubs would consider it commercialised.

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Julian

Years ago

^^^ haha. The XXXX is flowing!

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Years ago

We have a traditional Xmas eve too: pissed by six, first fistfight by 8.

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Julian

Years ago

Ricey Eve hasn't been commercialised. Very traditional still as opposed to the morning after.

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Patrick Coyle

Years ago

I don't mind a 3 pm game on Christmas Eve. Anything before 6 pm won't interrupt most family's Christmas Eve traditions (if they have them).

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Ricey

Years ago

Because Christmas night isn't commericialised lol

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Julian

Years ago

OMMMGGGG finally NBL are using special dates since changing to Summer in 1998. It's a.... Christmas miracle! It only took 19 years!

I like it also because it's not the literal eve of Christmas but earlier at 3pm (my family celebrate on Christmas Eve night which is the most important day to us rather than the commercialised morning of Christmas Day).

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ashman

Years ago

That is the "hack" :thumbsup:

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Luuuc

Years ago

The "hack" that I use is:
- go to the link posted
- the subscriber-only page only gives you a couple of lines of text, but it does give you the headline (in this case "36ers set for Christmas Eve present")
- copy & paste the headline into the search box of Google News search (news.google.com)
- the link that comes up from that search will usually get you to an unblocked version of the article

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ashman

Years ago

Mark,
I saw you at St Clair tonight.
Did you need your gps to get there, as im sure you need for all the other bsa stadiums you overlook other then the dome?
In fact I dont think anybody realised you were there for those 6 minutes you graced the common bsa scumfolk with your prescence as it has been that long since you enteted a stadium that nobody knows who you actully are.

Hope you dont feel too dirty actually entering a stadium with a basketball game in it that isnt national league

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