brooklyn gal for a while

tree poser

I hope all of you had a very merry Christmas, or are having a happy Channuka, or are looking forward to a jovial January.
It has been a tradition at the family home to place our Christmas tree in the window to display our Christianity to the neighborhood (as my Dad puts it). There was a time when the family adventured to pick out a tree and then decorate it (we once even strung popcorn and cranberries on thread with a needle to garnish the tree!). Douglas fir or white pine, they were always about 7' tall and their scent floated through the house.
But this year there seemed to be a hybrid in reasoning between sensibility and keeping up appearances. Because the end result was tiny tree standing tall on a box. What a poser*. But as JK said, all the more room for presents.


* As a horrible speller, I spell checked "poser" this is what dictionary.com had to say:
n. A wannabee; not hacker slang, but used amongcrackers, phreaks and warez d00dz. Not as negative as lamer orleech. Probably derives from a similar usage among punk-rockersand metalheads, putting down those who "talk the talk but don't walkthe walk".

posted by gordian knot @ Tuesday, December 27, 2005