December 17, 2002

Operation Marley

Mike at ColdFury.com has a great rant about a couple in Vancouver who have paid for an Anti-Christmas billboard.

While I heartily believe that people should form their own opinions, I object to being publicly slammed for it. A big ol' billboard telling me what a greedy pig I am makes me more than a little angry.

So why not channel that anger? I think the Williams need a good example of Christmas Cheer. So I encourage everyone to send them a lovely Christmas Card. Let's blanket them with Love and thoughtfulness.

Operation Marley:

Please send a nice Christmas Card to:
Valerie and Trevor Williams
Oak Bay
Victoria, BC
Canada

Be gracious and polite! Now is not the time to let Satan hijack your tongue or your pen! The object of this exercise is to show the Williams just what the Christmas Spirit really is.

(Disclaimer: I compiled this address by poking at the web. It's all publicly available information. While I could narrow it down even further, this should be sufficient. Oak Bay has a population of about 17,000. I suspect that the post office knows where the Williamses live, what with the recent publicity.)

Update: According to my local post office, it costs sixty cents to send a card from Minneapolis to the Vancouver area. I'm assuming that rate will be constant throughout the US. Add stamps accordingly.

Also, I am NOT putting a return address on the card, simply because that puts a bit more pressure on the Post Office to deliver it. What else are they going to do with it? I'll bet if they get balky, a good load of them will cause someone to track down the Williams.

Posted by Susskins at December 17, 2002 04:06 PM | TrackBack
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Keith, my love, you're frickin' brilliant. One card from our family to theirs on it's way tomorrow in the mail! ;-) I'd post this on my blog, too, if I could get the *@!& thing up.

Posted by: Artchick on December 17, 2002 08:04 PM

Thanks.

I'm sure I'm not the first to think of this, but I haven't seen anything in the blog world that suggests it. We'll see if it goes anywhere. I submitted the blog entry to "Carnival of the Vanities". I don't know if it made it or not.

Posted by: Keith on December 18, 2002 08:13 AM

Check out Carnival of the Vanities #13:

http://www.hereticalideas.com/2002_12_15_archive.htm#86212446

Posted by: Keith on December 18, 2002 08:17 AM

Satans got your tongue thats why your so greedy! Here's my opinion, during christmas people generaly think of them selves, the billboard was just trying to make people be a little bit more OPEN MINDED! See things from other peoples point of veiw, do you think santa visits the people living on the streets?No the fat prick does not!

Posted by: K-Lynne on January 12, 2003 01:02 AM

Then the billboard failed miserably. Screaming "greedy, selfish, stupid" at people isn't about to change any minds, or start a discussion.

Wait. I'm wrong. It DID start a discussion. A discussion about the obnoxious jackasses that put up this face-slapping billboard.

If you don't like Christmas, fine. But don't tell me I'm a greedy pig for liking it myself.

Posted by: Susskins on January 12, 2003 07:03 AM
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