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<blockquote data-quote="Don Kuykendall_RIP" data-source="post: 236383" data-attributes="member: 6277"><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande'">Twas the night before Christmas and Santa's a wreck...</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande'">How to live in a world that's politically correct?</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande'">His workers no longer would answer to "Elves",</span></span><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande'">"Vertically Challenged" they were calling themselves.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande'">And labor conditions at the North Pole,</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande'">were alleged by the union, to stifle the soul.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande'">Four reindeer had vanished without much propriety,</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande'">released to the wilds, by the Humane Society.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande'">And equal employment had made it quite clear,</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande'">that Santa had better not use just reindeer.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande'">So Dancer and Donner, Comet and Cupid,</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande'">were replaced with 4 pigs, and you know that looked stupid!</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande'">The runners had been removed from his beautiful sleigh,</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande'">because the ruts were deemed dangerous by the EPA,</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande'">And millions of people were calling the Cops,</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande'">when they heard sled noises upon their roof tops.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande'">Second-hand smoke from his pipe, had his workers quite frightened,</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande'">and his fur trimmed red suit was called "unenlightened".</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande'">To show you the strangeness of today's ebbs and flows,</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande'">Rudolf was suing over unauthorized use of his nose.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande'">He went to Geraldo, in front of the Nation,</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande'">demanding millions in over-due workers compensation.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande'">So...half of the reindeer were gone, and his wife</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande'">who suddenly said she'd had enough of this life,</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande'">joined a self help group, packed and left in a whiz,</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande'">demanding from now on that her title was Ms.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande'">And as for gifts...why, he'd never had the notion</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande'">that making a choice could cause such commotion.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande'">Nothing of leather, nothing of fur...</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande'">Which meant nothing for him or nothing for her.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande'">Nothing to aim, Nothing to shoot,</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande'">Nothing that clamored or made lots of noise.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande'">Nothing for just girls and nothing for just boys.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande'">Nothing that claimed to be gender specific,</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande'">Nothing that's warlike or non-pacifistic.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande'">No candy or sweets...they were bad for the tooth.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande'">Nothing that seemed to embellish upon the truth.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande'">And fairy tales...while not yet forbidden,</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande'">were like Ken and Barbie, better off hidden,</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande'">for they raised the hackles of those psychological,</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande'">who claimed the only good gift was one ecological.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande'">No baseball, no football...someone might get hurt,</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande'">besides - playing sports exposed kids to dirt.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande'">Dolls were said to be sexist and should be passe.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande'">and Nintendo would rot your entire brain away.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande'">So Santa just stood there, disheveled and perplexed,</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande'">he just couldn't figure out what to do next?</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande'">He tried to be merry he tried to be gay,</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande'">but you must have to be careful with that word today</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande'">His sack was quite empty, it was flat on the ground,</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande'">nothing fully acceptable was anywhere to be found.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande'">Something special was needed, a gift that he might,</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande'">give to us all, without angering the left or the right.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande'">A gift that would satisfy - with no indecision,</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande'">each group of people in every religion.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande'">Every race, every hue,</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande'">everyone, everywhere...even you!</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande'">So here is that gift, it's price beyond worth...</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande'">"MAY YOU AND YOUR LOVED ONES, ENJOY PEACE ON EARTH"</span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Don Kuykendall_RIP, post: 236383, member: 6277"] [COLOR=#333333][FONT=lucida grande]Twas the night before Christmas and Santa's a wreck...[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#333333][FONT=lucida grande]How to live in a world that's politically correct?[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#333333][FONT=lucida grande]His workers no longer would answer to "Elves",[/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=#333333][FONT=lucida grande] "Vertically Challenged" they were calling themselves. And labor conditions at the North Pole, were alleged by the union, to stifle the soul. Four reindeer had vanished without much propriety, released to the wilds, by the Humane Society. And equal employment had made it quite clear, that Santa had better not use just reindeer. So Dancer and Donner, Comet and Cupid, were replaced with 4 pigs, and you know that looked stupid! The runners had been removed from his beautiful sleigh, because the ruts were deemed dangerous by the EPA, And millions of people were calling the Cops, when they heard sled noises upon their roof tops. Second-hand smoke from his pipe, had his workers quite frightened, and his fur trimmed red suit was called "unenlightened". To show you the strangeness of today's ebbs and flows, Rudolf was suing over unauthorized use of his nose. He went to Geraldo, in front of the Nation, demanding millions in over-due workers compensation. So...half of the reindeer were gone, and his wife who suddenly said she'd had enough of this life, joined a self help group, packed and left in a whiz, demanding from now on that her title was Ms. And as for gifts...why, he'd never had the notion that making a choice could cause such commotion. Nothing of leather, nothing of fur... Which meant nothing for him or nothing for her. Nothing to aim, Nothing to shoot, Nothing that clamored or made lots of noise. Nothing for just girls and nothing for just boys. Nothing that claimed to be gender specific, Nothing that's warlike or non-pacifistic. No candy or sweets...they were bad for the tooth. Nothing that seemed to embellish upon the truth. And fairy tales...while not yet forbidden, were like Ken and Barbie, better off hidden, for they raised the hackles of those psychological, who claimed the only good gift was one ecological. No baseball, no football...someone might get hurt, besides - playing sports exposed kids to dirt. Dolls were said to be sexist and should be passe. and Nintendo would rot your entire brain away. So Santa just stood there, disheveled and perplexed, he just couldn't figure out what to do next? He tried to be merry he tried to be gay, but you must have to be careful with that word today His sack was quite empty, it was flat on the ground, nothing fully acceptable was anywhere to be found. Something special was needed, a gift that he might, give to us all, without angering the left or the right. A gift that would satisfy - with no indecision, each group of people in every religion. Every race, every hue, everyone, everywhere...even you! So here is that gift, it's price beyond worth... "MAY YOU AND YOUR LOVED ONES, ENJOY PEACE ON EARTH"[/FONT][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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