Politically Correct Holiday Greetings

Politically Correct Holiday Greetings

I wanted to send some sort of Christmas greeting to my friends and colleagues, but it is so difficult in today’s world to know exactly what to say without offending someone. So I met with my attorney yesterday, and on his advice I wish to say the following:

Please accept with no obligation, implied or implicit, my best wishes for an environmentally conscious, socially responsible, low stress, nonaddictive, gender neutral celebration of the summer solstice holiday, practiced with the most enjoyable traditions of religious persuasion or secular practices of your choice with respect for the religious/secular persuasions and/or traditions of others, or their choice not to practice religious or secular traditions at all.

I also wish you a fiscally successful, personally fulfilling and medically uncomplicated recognition of the onset of the generally accepted calendar year 2007, but not without due respect for the calendars of choice of other cultures whose contributions to society have helped make our world great and without regard to the race, creed, colour, age, physical ability, religious faith or sexual preference of the wishee.

By accepting this greeting, you are accepting these terms:

This greeting is subject to clarification or withdrawal. It is freely transferable with no alteration to the original greeting. It implies no promise by the wisher to actually implement any of the wishes for her- /himself or others and is void where prohibited by law, and is revocable at the sole discretion of the wisher. This wish is warranted to perform as expected within the usual application of good tidings for a period of one year or until the issuance of a subsequent holiday greeting, whichever comes first, and warranty is limited to replacement of this wish or issuance of a new wish at the sole discretion of the wisher.

(Courtesy Derrick @ incuBeta)

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Comments On This Post

  1. Derrick Kotze Says:
    December 25, 2006 at 8:07 am

    WhooHoo! 5 seconds of Fame for Xmas!

  2. Derrick Kotze Says:
    December 25, 2006 at 10:07 am

    WhooHoo! 5 seconds of Fame for Xmas!

  3. rafiq Says:
    December 25, 2006 at 12:56 pm

    5 seconds? This is a blog, not a newspaper. Things work differently here.

  4. » Christmas in Cape Town Says:
    December 25, 2006 at 2:51 pm

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  5. rafiq Says:
    December 25, 2006 at 2:56 pm

    5 seconds? This is a blog, not a newspaper. Things work differently here.

  6. Derrick Kotze Says:
    December 25, 2006 at 4:52 pm

    Yip, if it was a paper it would be 30seconds…by this evening the same greeting would have been circulated over the globe, probably FW back to me and changed “wishers” a million times. So if I get 5 seconds I should consider myself lucky :)

  7. Derrick Kotze Says:
    December 25, 2006 at 6:52 pm

    Yip, if it was a paper it would be 30seconds…by this evening the same greeting would have been circulated over the globe, probably FW back to me and changed “wishers” a million times. So if I get 5 seconds I should consider myself lucky :)

  8. Adrian Bold Says:
    December 27, 2006 at 5:57 pm

    Happy _________ everyone!

  9. RevenueToday » Post Holiday Lull Says:
    December 27, 2006 at 6:03 pm

    [...] A politically correct and very funny holiday greeting from Vinny Lingham. [...]

  10. Adrian Bold Says:
    December 27, 2006 at 7:57 pm

    Happy _________ everyone!

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