What is your favorite type of holiday decoration? / LJWorld.com

Asked at Massachusetts Street on December 10, 2012

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“A strong, festive costume. It gets everyone else in the spirit.”

— Taryn Miller, wild child at Love Garden Sounds, Winfield

“I like Christmas trees, the artificial kind. My mom’s allergic to real trees.”

— Becca Jacobs, student, Dallas

“Christmas lights. People just do really creative stuff with them.”

— John Kindscher, student, Overland Park

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RoeDapple 6 months, 1 week ago

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grammaddy 6 months, 1 week ago

The lights!The more "Griswold" the better.

RoeDapple 6 months, 1 week ago

This one too . . .

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misterlee 6 months, 1 week ago

Christmas trees. I decorate mine with sunflowers each year.

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RETICENT_IRREVERENT 6 months, 1 week ago

I like a good nautical theme much the same as anybody else.

rockchalker52 6 months, 1 week ago

Nice tree, misterlee! My favs include the beautifully wrapped presents that are placed underneath the Christmas trees. I'm especially attracted to the ones with my name on them.

RoeDapple 6 months, 1 week ago

Yep, the spirit . . . I gots it. I don't even hate the haters this time of year. At least not as much. Whatever.

CWGOKU 6 months, 1 week ago

"Mistle toe hung over my yule log." Andini

I can't best that comment. Well played.

I like a well decorated tree. I like Christmas and decorations and music. Not so much the gifts. I see Autie isn't into it. Must be a French thang.

The wife knows how to fill a stocking.

RoeDapple 6 months, 1 week ago

First time I drank eggnog was in '72. I was also an occasional user of Beechnut at the time. Both at the same time is a terrible, terrible thing to do. Terrible. Haven't tasted either one since.

riverdrifter 6 months, 1 week ago

Christmas? I'm just now getting out the Halloween stuff (I'm a charter member of Procrastinators International).

riverdrifter 6 months, 1 week ago

When deer hunting out west last week we did see one extremely nice decoration: LED tube lighting in a deep blue color running along either side of a quarter mile long curved driveway which lead uphill to a nice ranch home. We could see it for miles. You can do cool stuff like that with LED lighting, which uses very little juice.

Eddie_Haskell 6 months, 1 week ago

If you fell from 23 miles out in space and your chute didn't open, how high would you bounce? I think I would at least try to throw in a double with a full twist.

RETICENT_IRREVERENT 6 months, 1 week ago

Eddie, From 23 miles above the Karman line?

Eddie_Haskell 6 months, 1 week ago

The Karman line is too far. 23 miles from sea level, I guess. The stratosphere maybe. When I was in college a friend of mine and I were drinking a 12 pack and watching Faces of Death. This guy jumped out of a plane and his chute didn't open. He got about a 10-12 foot bounce out of it. I'm thinking if you fell from 23 miles you'd probably get one hell of a good bounce or you'd create a nice crater.

Eddie_Haskell 6 months, 1 week ago

At a 45 degree angle of flight, travelling at 600mph, how high could a commercial jet go before something bad happened.

rockchalker52 6 months, 1 week ago

Eddie, by reindeer is the only way to travel during the holidays. Santa never crashes. You won't need a parachute & clearing customs is a breeze.

CWGOKU 6 months, 1 week ago

8 Maids a milking

RETICENT_IRREVERENT 6 months, 1 week ago

3000 ft, 6 miles, 23 miles... all things being equal, the guy will decelerate to a point where he goes no slower, or accelerate to a point where he goes no faster and is going to hit the ground at the same speed, and bounce or splat the same amount.

There is a reason they call it terminal velocity.

rockchalker52 6 months, 1 week ago

To me it looked more crater than bounce.

Wile E. Coyote's Space Jump by Jake Scott

Eddie_Haskell 6 months, 1 week ago

Well, that Felix Baumgartner jerk hit 834mph but then he started slowing down. I don't get that at all. I was kind of hoping his chute wouldn't open. A quick timeline:

On 25 July 2012, Baumgartner completed the second of two planned test jumps from 96,640 feet (29,460 m).

Main jump on 14 October 2012 when Baumgartner landed in eastern New Mexico after jumping from a world record 39,045 metres (128,100 ft) or just over 39 kilometres (24 mi).

On 6 November 2012 Baumgartner was convicted of battery and was fined €1500 after punching a Greek truck driver in the face.[

hitme 6 months, 1 week ago

Terminal velocity (averaging 120 mph for skydivers) would not likely produce much of a bounce with any hard surface. Think of a watermelon hitting anything at that speed. The soft tissue of the human body tends to give way (it explodes) on impact. Terminal velocity varies depending on weight and wind resistance.. A head-down power dive for a 200 lb man might reach 180-200mph; a stable belly-to-earth descent of a 95 lb female (gender is not a factor) might be closer to 90mph.

riverdrifter 6 months, 1 week ago

Did you ever jump? Think of how the ground rush must have been at 5,000 feet after jumping from that altitude. Yikes! I probably would've exited the dive at 8,000! I don't know where this guy went out at.

hitme 6 months, 1 week ago

Barely three digits. If my voyeuristic memory serves, you've got many times my number. Can you imagine spinning or potato-chipping at mach 1? Wonder what went through his mind? "Got to arch harder...now pull my right elbow in just a hair" And to finish the ride when your facemask is fogged up? Definitely the "E ticket" of a lifetime. I'm surprised we haven't seen him in some TV ads...perhaps the Superbowl.