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The 12 burning questions* of Xmas: Angel or star at top of tree?

Ask yourself: What would Elvis have put on the top of his Christmas tree?
Ask yourself: What would Elvis have put on the top of his Christmas tree?
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THE FESTIVE SEASON. A time of joy and goodwill to all… Oh, who are we kidding?

Christmas, New Year and the fallow period in between are ripe for misunderstandings, family tension and silly arguments. We’re here to gauge the temperature on the niggly rows of the season and set them all to rights.

Today: Easy one this – what should be on top of your Christmas tree.

A. An angel, or…

Blue Light Special Tree

(via Liz Lawley/Flickr.com)

B. A star.

star

(via Stella Dauer/Flickr.com)


Poll Results:





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Comments (19 Comments)

  • DieterM 27/12/11 #
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    Who thinks up these Polls, they are getting worse…do you think we are all slow learning 12 yr olds?

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  • Jennifer Egan 27/12/11 #
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    There should be an option for both:)

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  • Vania Leandra 27/12/11 #
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    Should be answer for both, I personally put a star as o have an angel looking after me already .

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  • Maura Boyle 27/12/11 #
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    In any questionnaire, with pre-set answer choices, the optional answers should be “mutually exclusive” and “collectively exhaustive”. I am so glad my years in Sociology in UCD have found a use 30 years later!! No fights in our house; we love our Angel! She’s looking as fresh as a daisy after well over 20 years, mostly lived in the attic!

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  • Auntie Dote 27/12/11 #
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    Used the C option, though I despise the wording… It’s still closest to ‘none of the above’, but it’s actually

    D. Blow up Monty Python parrot.

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    It was Christmas Eve and NOTHING was going right. Mrs.Claus had burned all the Christmas cookies. The Elves were bitching about not getting paid for the overtime they had put in while making toys, and the reindeer had been drinking all afternoon and were dead drunk. They had taken the sleigh out for a spin earlier in the day and crashed it into a tree, breaking off one of the runners.

    Santa was beside himself with anger. “I CAN”T believe it! I’ve got to deliver millions of presents all over the world in just a few hours from now and all my reindeer are drunk, my Elves are on strike and I don’t even have a Christmas tree! I sent that stupid Little Angel out HOURS ago to find a tree and she isn’t even back yet! What am I going to do?”

    Just then the Little Angel opened the front door and stepped in from the snowy night, dragging a Christmas tree. She says: “Yo, Santa, where do you want me to stick the Christmas Tree this year???”

    And thus the tradition of Angels perched atop the Christmas trees came to pass. . . . .

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  • Lillian Sallee 27/12/11 #
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    How about an “other” option? Santa tops my tree.

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  • Seán Lynch 27/12/11 #
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    An ‘other’ option please for us frequently predominat militant atheists who don’t want religious iconography symbolically at the top of our tree but who do enjoy the lights and the smell of xmas tree so much that we will temporarily dilute our frustration with Christians to enjoy a family oriented event and remember the joy that Santa brought us for years! Ill probably leave the top of my tree blank when I eventually own one.

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  • Hanly Sheelagh 28/12/11 #
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    Very a la carte

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  • Monique Mckeown 28/12/11 #
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    That ‘Jesus fella’ has a lot 2 answer 4. No wonder there was no such thing as credit cards r technology in his day. If he ever does re-appear, he can pick up my tab 4 Xmas.

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