tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20385137.post3174320236575238983..comments2023-11-02T04:21:10.340-04:00Comments on The way the Ball bounces: Swiss Chalet's Festive Special... I do the mathBallBounceshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08776039024486455199noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20385137.post-30304753795059895152016-01-20T17:24:32.871-05:002016-01-20T17:24:32.871-05:00According to Merriam-Webster, the "Simple&quo...<br />According to Merriam-Webster, the "Simple" definition of festive is "Cheerful and exciting". For the "simple"-minded original poster, who thinks it's an "offensive" word. What's so offensive to you about celebrating a happy time, anyway? You are ignorant: "lacking comprehension of the thing specified."<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20385137.post-7255824772015096142013-01-05T22:14:52.042-05:002013-01-05T22:14:52.042-05:00I don't know why you are all so offended by th...I don't know why you are all so offended by this I don't celebrate Xmas myself and I find there nothing wrong with it being called the festive special. I mean you don't hear other religions out there saying how you have to praise them or their religion and eat there food or call it let's say the hannukah special so why should it have to be called the xmas special festive special is the perfect name for it so stop all this complaining and live with it. Concerned customer.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20385137.post-21961608275095360792011-12-12T11:27:37.108-05:002011-12-12T11:27:37.108-05:00Swiss Chalet? Who gives a crap. They must be mor...Swiss Chalet? Who gives a crap. They must be more popular back East. There's very few out West and I don't think many people go based on LorneR's comment about one closing in Kelowna.<br /><br />I think in my entire life I've eaten at one 1 time. Goes for Harvey's as well.<br /><br />Keep your crap on the Eastern side of the ON/MB border. While you're at it take that dishwater you Easterners think is coffee, Tim Horton's, back as well.Reidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00601342147663575029noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20385137.post-2581746950011909282011-12-11T16:21:46.916-05:002011-12-11T16:21:46.916-05:00Yes, it's a good book, and the J.B. Phillips t...Yes, it's a good book, and the J.B. Phillips translation is a good one.<br /><br />Thanks for contributing to a lively discussion.BallBounceshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08776039024486455199noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20385137.post-87639664328405687752011-12-11T10:22:49.489-05:002011-12-11T10:22:49.489-05:00ianTangoJuliette sez:
.. . back when - St. Nicho...ianTangoJuliette sez:<br /><br />.. . back when - St. Nicholas Day was on Dec.6. Nick was the gift giver, Christmas was Dec 25 according to Western Rites.<br /><br />Eastern Rites placed St. Nicholas Day on Dec 19, Christmas on Jan 6/7.<br /><br />If today's Christians get antsy about "retailers and governments usurping/replacing Christmas" NOW, what do you expect our reactions might be when they start after us LATER, at the celebrations of Bread & Circuses, when it's time to feed Christian Kibbles&Bits to the lions in the new and expanded coliseum?<br /><br />Perhaps our G+D is too small?<br /><br />No blasphemy intended here, it's a paraphrase of the title of a great 1961 book by J.B. Phillips, entitled "Your God Is Too Small." <br /><br />ttfn<br />tj<br />t.e.&o.e.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20385137.post-21612682503334889352011-12-11T07:52:13.784-05:002011-12-11T07:52:13.784-05:00Never liked Swiss Chalet so loss.Never liked Swiss Chalet so loss.Simeon (Sam) George Drakichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07640091609277448799noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20385137.post-25780876593131214422011-12-11T07:35:40.793-05:002011-12-11T07:35:40.793-05:00The Christmas season in N/A is, as much as anythin...The Christmas season in N/A is, as much as anything, a cultural celebration rather than a religious celebration. In denying Christmas, retailers are negating Canadian culture -- while seeking, of course, to profit mightily from it. Hence the common distain for the go-half-way try-to-have-it-both-ways hypocrisy.BallBounceshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08776039024486455199noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20385137.post-90470828410862427162011-12-11T07:33:04.918-05:002011-12-11T07:33:04.918-05:00In much of Christendom the feast of Christmas begi...In much of Christendom the feast of Christmas begins Christmas eve, and then lasts... 12 days. Up until that point it's Advent, which is hopeful but not festive. No Christmas carols until Christmas eve.<br /><br />In North America, the Christmas season begins the day after American Thanksgiving, lasts until Christmas Day and then ends abruptly a day or two later.<br /><br />The day after Christmas is the feast of St. Stephen (think Good King Wenceslas), the first Christian martyr. It is interesting that the church fathers remind us of martyrdom in the midst of this joyful season.BallBounceshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08776039024486455199noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20385137.post-80038840842205853352011-12-11T06:03:42.841-05:002011-12-11T06:03:42.841-05:00TangoJuliette sez:
Considering that this Festive ...TangoJuliette sez:<br /><br />Considering that this Festive Meal Special starts in late October/early November and runs into the end of Dec/early January, it spans more than just Christmas. <br /><br />FESTIVE? I'm good with that.<br /><br />And if you're lucky enough to have a Ukrainian Orthodox background, Christmas falls on January 6-7, and the traditional greeting is "Christ is born!" and responded to with "Praise Him!"<br /><br />"Merry Christmas" is considered a no-no.<br /><br />I s'pose that if the Festive label is offensive to some, perhaps considering the other option will satisfy the purist beating in one's soul. Feel free to order anything else off the menu that is not tainted with the word Festive. <br /><br />By the way - these voiced concerns carry more weight if one adheres to the many other teachings of much of Christendom. Like - does one eat or eschew meat and other proscribed items during Lent? <br /><br />ttfn<br />tj<br />t.e.&o.e.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20385137.post-89467513611831594602011-12-11T00:51:16.951-05:002011-12-11T00:51:16.951-05:00Swiss Chalet closed up shop in Kelowna recently. ...Swiss Chalet closed up shop in Kelowna recently. A casualty of the HST, .05, increased minimum wage assault on the hospitality industry in BC? Or perhaps just not meeting market demand for decent food at a fair price (the service was always good)? Or a combination of both? <br /><br />Who knows but I won't miss their "Seasons Greetings" and "Happy Holidays" this year.<br /><br />Merry Christmas to their laid of employees.LorneRnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20385137.post-7665761188174031932011-12-10T22:26:11.715-05:002011-12-10T22:26:11.715-05:00I am glad you posted this ... my wife and I had th...I am glad you posted this ... my wife and I had the 'festive meal' the other night and were joking about how politically correct it was. Doing all the math and all Merry Festive does not equil Merry Christmas.Rural and Rightnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20385137.post-17548819422954488082011-12-10T21:11:46.664-05:002011-12-10T21:11:46.664-05:00Like others, they're willing to offend the man...Like others, they're willing to offend the many lest they offend the phantom few.BallBounceshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08776039024486455199noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20385137.post-38467403768508261972011-12-10T20:59:13.430-05:002011-12-10T20:59:13.430-05:00Their radio commercial uses "Seasons Greeting...Their radio commercial uses "Seasons Greeting" and "Happy Holidays" but NOT "Merry Christmas". That offends mePaul Mnoreply@blogger.com