Anyone Else Disappointed with CS Catalog?

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Although I got it several weeks ago, I haven't had a chance to carefully inspect the Cold Steel Christmas Sale catalog until now. And I have to say this is the most dismal sale by CS that I've ever seen. They've been very generous in the past and even substituted "up" when discontinued items had run out of stock.

For all my gripes about some of CS's sales tactics, I admire them for keeping the term "Christmas" when everyone else in California is falling all over themselves to be politically correct, but I'm bummed out that there were no great deals. Not one.
 
Yes the War on Christmas has fully engulfed California. :rolleyes:

Where do you folks get these nutty ideas?
 
Christmas? What is this holiday you speak of? Obviously no one celebrates it, we just have the 'winter holiday' now.

:P political correctness at it's most dismally sad
 
Now some places are selling upside down artificial trees - I suppose it's to show contempt for "the reason for the season".
 
I live in a really multi-cultural neighborhood, so for me its always "Happy Holidays!"
 
blackviper91 said:
Christmas? What is this holiday you speak of? Obviously no one celebrates it, we just have the 'winter holiday' now.

:P political correctness at it's most dismally sad
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I happen to take offense to the term "Winter Holiday". What about the tropics where there is no apparent winter season. It should be "Winter/Dry Season day where paid labour is temporarily suspsended" :)
 
I noticed the minimal sale prices too, not a big deal to me...but the whole can't say christams is a BIG deal to me, and now some stores by me wont even allow santa inside the store! I swear to god, I saw kids in the cold getting their picture taken with santa this year, what a shame!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
The earlier Christmas shopping begins, the less Christmas there is in it.

We realize you must be sensitive if you're going to become feminized, but Winter Holiday doesn't suit those of us from regions where winter is a sad, cold rain.

Perhaps for them, we could restrict the buying frenzy to December again, and call it Marketing Month, which should remove any uncomfortable association with the religion it was once supposed to derive from.

So I propose we here ignore the ignorant bigots who can't let others be happy in their own way, and having celebrated Hanukah as I chose to, I wish others of you a very Merry Christmas! :D
 
I read somewhere Jesus wasnt born on Christmas, is that the reason why people dont celebrate Christmas?
 
Different sects of early Christianity celebrated Christmas on different calendar days. Many used different calendars than the one endorsed by Rome. Once the Emperor Constantine chose Catholicism as the mandated official religion of his new government bringing the many different cultures, sects and forms of religion into step with the program became his next priority. Troublesome Christian priests that believed he erred at the first council of Nicea were in one way or another (i.e., which "books" (really scrolls as the printing press took another 1,300 years to make the first object we call a book today) to include in his first Bible, or who should be the next Pope) promptly earned a place in history by being fed to lions in the coliseum. An additional item to be decided was the date of the birthday. As there was a feast to a pagan god called Mithra (see Google for more about him) who was very popular with Constantine's soldiers as well as of widespread popularity throughout the lands Constantine was trying to rule, it was decided to use the birthday of Mithra, December 25, as the date of the Catholic Holiday. The similarities between the two events (12 days, gifts, etc.) were such that most of the unwashed didn't care what the religion called itself. Dissenters were, of course, hunted down and fed to the lions, thereby providing an acceptable Saturday afternoon substitute until TV and football were invented.
 
Esav Benyamin said:
So I propose we here ignore the ignorant bigots who can't let others be happy in their own way, and having celebrated Hanukah as I chose to, I wish others of you a very Merry Christmas! :D
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Great idea! Thank you for the Christmas wishes, and I wish a very Happy Hanukah for you and your family!
 
When are we as a country going to wake up and decide that "political correctness" is one of the most "hare brained" ideas we ever came up with!?!?!?! America, love it, warts & all, or leave.............
 
Yep, add Canada to that sentiment too, except for the warts... they all freeze off up here and don't last long :)

If I hear or read one more "Happy Holidays" or "Merry Holiday Season", I'm gonna throw up. If you don't celebrate Christmas, fine. Don't. You want to take away my family's right to rejoice and celebrate it publicly... get bent.

If you want to post Happy Hanukah on your storefront windows, great! I will wish you that greeting when we meet. You want to celebrate your faith everywhere... have at it; I fully support your right to do so.

Given that Jesus was a Jew, you'd think we'd have worked out a mutually agreeable holiday or something over the last few hundred years. Some of my inlaws are Jewish so I kinda get to swing both ways each year. As for other religions, sorry, I can't comment due to ignorance.

Edit: sorry... realise this post got quite off track. No, I haven't seen the catalogue, but I'm sure I'd be disappointed if I had. I've never owned one of their knives, sorry.
 
So...what about the...ummm...Cold Steel 2007 Christmas Sale? Kinda sparse on good deals this year, don't you think? Here I've looked forward to it for months, and ther were no great deals whatsoever. It would have been a bust even with free shipping!
 
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