Happy Holidays - whatever your faith or religious persuasion may be.

Have a peaceful, glorious day and coming new year - filled with love and
friendship.

--


Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

"Richard Urban" <richardurbanREMOVETHIS@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Happy Holidays - whatever your faith or religious persuasion may be.
>
> Have a peaceful, glorious day and coming new year - filled with love and
> friendship.
>

Richard Urban,

No offense meant, and none is implied if you were considering taking any.
And please don't be offended if you were perhaps thinking you may have a
good reason to be offended. Please take this as just a little example of
how absurd little sayings like the one you mention above sound. I mean, for
goodness sake's, if you are going to wish someone happy holidays, do you
really, really need to put a non-exclusionary clause in such a simple
greeting as happy holidays? Why not just say "Happy Holidays" and let that
be it if that is what you want to say, instead of putting an explanation of
just who you may or may not be talking too when you say happy holidays.

Here is an article that I copied and pasted from another news-group, I don't
claim it to be my own but I think it quite nicely encapsulates how some
people such as yourself may feel about a holiday that some people are afraid
to say the name of.

Cut and Pasted:

"Please accept with no obligation, implied or
implicit, my best wishes for an environmentally conscious, socially
responsible,
low-stress, non-addictive, gender-neutral celebration of the winter solstice
holiday,
practiced within the most enjoyable traditions of the religious persuasion
of your
choice, or secular practices of your choice, with respect for the
religious/secular
persuasion and/or traditions of others, or their choice not to practice
religious or
secular traditions at all.

I also wish you a fiscally successful, personally
fulfilling and medically uncomplicated recognition of the onset of the
generally
accepted calendar year 2006, but not without due respect for the calendars
of choice
of other cultures whose contributions to society have helped make America
great.


Not
to imply that America is necessarily greater than any other country nor the
only
America in the Western Hemisphere. And without regard to the race, creed,
color, age,
physical ability, religious faith or sexual preference of the wishee. By
accepting
these greetings you are accepting these terms. This greeting is subject to
clarification or withdrawal. It is freely transferable with no alteration to
the
original greeting. It implies no promise by the wisher to actually implement
any of
the wishes for herself or himself or others, and is void where prohibited by
law and
is revocable at the sole discretion of the wisher.

This wish is warranted to perform
as expected within the usual application of good tidings for a period of one
year or
until the issuance of a subsequent holiday greeting, whichever comes first,
and
warranty is limited to replacement of this wish or issuance of a new wish at
the sole
discretion of the wisher."


For everyone else: Here's wishing You a Merry Christmas and a Happy New
Year

Thank you Richard!
And may you and yours have a great day and following year.

--
Mike Pawlak

Have a nice day.

"(Del¤+/Ctrl+¤/Alt¤+)" wrote: .....

The same to you and all the other MVPs who try so hard to keep some of us
from going slightly insane throughout the year.


"Richard Urban" <richardurbanREMOVETHIS@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:OWTgDoUCGHA.2336@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
Happy Holidays - whatever your faith or religious persuasion may be.

Have a peaceful, glorious day and coming new year - filled with love and
friendship.

--


Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

Yo Richard

You have a great one too.. and don't forget to give yourself time to eat and
be merry.. I see that there are other die-hard MVP's out this morn.. Shenan
posted something between 4 and 5 am.. and Mary Sauer (Publisher MVP) is also
strutting her stuff..

Stay safe and keep the shiny side up if you have to go out anyplace.. and
may your god go with you..

--
Mike Hall
MVP - Windows Shell/User


"Richard Urban" <richardurbanREMOVETHIS@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Happy Holidays - whatever your faith or religious persuasion may be.
>
> Have a peaceful, glorious day and coming new year - filled with love and
> friendship.
>
> --
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Richard Urban
> Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
>
> Quote from George Ankner:
> If you knew as much as you think you know,
> You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
>
>

Thanks Richard !
I wish the same to you !!!
Have lots of smiles next year !



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"Richard Urban" wrote:

> Happy Holidays - whatever your faith or religious persuasion may be.
>
> Have a peaceful, glorious day and coming new year - filled with love and
> friendship.
>
> --
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Richard Urban
> Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
>
> Quote from George Ankner:
> If you knew as much as you think you know,
> You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
>
>
>

Richard Urban wrote:

> Happy Holidays - whatever your faith or religious persuasion may be.
>
> Have a peaceful, glorious day and coming new year - filled with love and
> friendship.
>

Same to you Richard!

Steve N.

The same to you and yours Richard, early evening here in the UK so it'll
soon be over for another year <g>
Joan



Richard Urban wrote:
> Happy Holidays - whatever your faith or religious persuasion may be.
>
> Have a peaceful, glorious day and coming new year - filled with love
> and friendship.

Jonny wrote:

> Politically incorrect. I like that. Merry Christmas to you as well,
> Richard. Am sure that some atheist, ACLU person, and/or non-Christian takes
> offense to this thead. And Merry Christmas to them too whether liked or
> not.
>

They don't have to read it.

Steve N.