Christmas tree or Holiday tree?

its a 'Christmas Tree'...always has been, always will be!

I guess you decided not to read up on the history, KC?

kc : here in canada the tree farmers grow : fir trees, spruce trees, scotch pine ... and sell them at christmas time. hbg

You guessed right..
thats what I have always known it to be a 'Christmas Tree' and
no other

thats interresting, down here in NZ we only have 2 sorts of trees for Christmas the Pine Tree and the plastic tree :wink:

Generally, in Europe you'll get at least four kinds: spruce, silver fir, blue spruce, nordic spruce.

(The so-called 'blue spruce' is actually a fir; regurlar spruces are very seldom used now indoors[by privates]).

You mean tannenbaum isn't a lotion to ease sunburn?

I suppose, you didn't read the instruction carefully enough, George!

It's always been a problem of mine.
I won't even mention the Polygrip incident.

You can close (and open) the fly with the zip, did nobody tell you that either? :wink:

Well, yes.
Timing seems to be the issue.

Cessante causa cessat effectus.

that stuff does wonders for chapped lips and parched throats - gargle, gargle, gargle ! hbg

You shouldn't gargle then, hamburger, but gurgel with a Stieben

gargle/gurgel ... that's what happens when i'm trying to switch between english and german.
i was thinking of one of spike jones' songs , "clink, clink, another drink ", where at the end of the song mel blanc gives a solo performance of the gargle/gurgel routine. (am i too old to enjoy that kind of nonsense ? never !).
my brother and i listenened to "american forces network" after the war to pick up the latest jazz tunes and kind of got hooked on spike jones. after coming to canada, it took me quite a few years to aquire my first spike jones tape. over the years i've been able to add a few cd's - that i usually play when mrs h is not in the house .
perhaps i'll entertain myself with spike and his gang performing "in the fuehrer's face" with willie spicer on birdaphone. (once a kid, always a kid !) hbg