Ad published in a “Boys’ Life” magazine in 1966 for the Boy Scouts of America![]() The original ad (above) was for Daisy Rifles and featured several products (i.e. the Spittin’ Image line of air guns) that were not available until the 1960s. Therefore, the ad below could not have been published in a Sears catalog in the 1950s. ![]() Santa's Guh-nomes - Archie Bunker Shopping is my cardio. - Carrie Bradshaw These are cathedrals of shopping. - Emile Zola Christmas comes, but once a year is enough. - American Proverb Gladly accept the gifts of the present hour. - Horace Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind. - William Shakespeare The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun. - R Buckminster Fuller I always say shopping is cheaper than a psychiatrist. - Tammy Faye Bakker I get really grinchy right up until Christmas morning. - Dan Aykroyd The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers. - Garth Brooks Halloween starts earlier and earlier, just like Christmas. - Robert Englund The quickest way to know a woman is to go shopping with her. - Marcelene Cox I'm going to the North Pole to help out Santa this year. - Jimmy Fallon Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just glad to see me? - Mae West A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns. - Mario Puzo Your heaviest artillery will be your will to live. Keep that big gun going. - Norman Cousins Opportunity does not knock. It presents itself when you beat down the door. - Kyle Chandler Those gifts are ever the most acceptable which the giver has made precious. - Ovid You can get a lot farther with a kind word and a gun than a kind word alone. - Al Capone Nothing's as mean as giving a little child something useful for Christmas. - Kin Hubbard Let everyone leave all the guns - British guns and Irish guns - outside the door. - Martin McGuinness It's better to have a gun and need it, than to not have a gun and not need it. - Ricky When women are mad or depressed, they eat or go shopping. Men invade another country. - Elayne Boosler True and solemn meaning of Christmas, which is a time for peace and quiet contemptation. - Archie Bunker A gun is not a weapon, it’s a tool, like a hammer or a screwdriver or an alligator. - Homer Simpson If 'ifs and buts' were 'candy and nuts', we'd have Christmas every day. - Unknown Shopping: The fine art of acquiring things you don't need with money you don't have. - Unknown One of the most important gifts we have in television - the ability to heal through laughter. - Soleil M Frye Like trying a man's finger for having pulled the trigger of a gun which murdered someone. - Malcolm Muggeridge The Bermuda Triangle got tired of warm weather. It moved to Alaska. Now Santa Claus is missing. - Steven Wright The difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring. - Ezra Pound The Christmas season has come to mean the period when the public plays Santa Claus to the merchants. - John Andrew Holmes The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a family all wrapped up in each other. - Bill Vaughan We are each given a limitless capacity to love and attain wisdom. The extent we use these gifts is our choice. - Anthony Douglas The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun. - P G Wodehouse We are all born with a grab bag on gifts and gaps. Identify your true talents, then find out how to use them to make money. - Bill O'Reilly Did you read about Starbucks? No more "Merry Christmas" at Starbucks. No more. Maybe we should boycott Starbucks. - Donald Trump Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas. - Joseph Stalin Paul Revere was warning the British about gun control, and George Washington apparently was crossing the Delaware to bomb an abortion clinic. - Bill Maher see also Christmas, Family & Shopping Sections Anti-Gun Neighbour Common Sense Gun Posters for Americans Golf Gun Murder Gun Buy-Back Program Gun Leash Jumping The Gun Long Bore Gun Ordnance Table Round Table Texas Gun Lover |
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