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Pumpkin Spice Plague

I have nothing against pumpkin in its appropriate role. We make a mean pumpkin pie. I also enjoy pumpkin bread and cookies. However, I draw the line at pumpkin spice everything else. For example, a garage on Sand Point Way in Seattle was hawking pumpkin spice oil changes. One assumes that the garage owner had …

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Season Creep

Season Creep is the phenomenon when you see items associated with a particular holiday or season appear earlier and earlier in the year. For example, the pumpkin spice everything (beer, lattes, etc.) started showing up here at the end of August. The most blatant example of Season Creep is Christmas Creep. Last week I saw …

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