http://blogs.moneycentral.msn.com/topstocks/archive/2008/12/01/can-xmas-be-saved.aspxThis post comes from partner site The Big Money . Predictions of a weak Christmas appear to be overblown as shoppers this weekend hit the stores in force, the New York Times, Wall Street Journal , and BusinessWeek report this morning. Ah, but there'senCommunityServer 2007.1 (Build: 20917.1142)http://blogs.moneycentral.msn.com/topstocks/archive/2008/12/01/can-xmas-be-saved.aspx#220758Thu, 04 Dec 2008 00:15:49 GMTe8f7cd84-7062-45ca-8a00-3f24dfc10bb9:220758sambrown@phonoscope.net<p>I agree George. &nbsp;I absolutely abhor &quot;X-Mas.&quot; &nbsp;I was in a store one day and there was a big sign on a table of items which said &quot;X-Mas Sale.&quot; &nbsp;I promptly got out my pen and marked out X-Mas, and wrote the word Christmas. &nbsp;Nothing steams me more that this!!!!!!</p> <img src="http://blogs.moneycentral.msn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=220758" width="1" height="1">http://blogs.moneycentral.msn.com/topstocks/archive/2008/12/01/can-xmas-be-saved.aspx#217893Mon, 01 Dec 2008 23:24:10 GMTe8f7cd84-7062-45ca-8a00-3f24dfc10bb9:217893George C Pickett<p>not when you refer to it as &quot;xmas&quot; and leave CHRIST out of it!!!</p> <img src="http://blogs.moneycentral.msn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=217893" width="1" height="1">