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You can wear whatever you want, but remember: This is the office party. This is a Porsche Ugly Sweater of people with whom you work, so if you wouldn’t wear a revealing dress to work, don’t wear it to the office party. Also, don’t drink much you presumably know your limit, so stop well short of it. Because again—you work with these people. When I worked at TV Guide, senior staff regularly attended the Christmas parties, which (at least at the beginning) were lavish, usually held in off-site venues and allowed employees to bring spouses. You don’t want your boss’s boss asking who that was—the girl in the thigh-high bandage dress and hooker heels or the guy who threw up on the white-glitter sparkle Christmas tree. Women get the brunt of the judgmental post-party gossip about attire while men generally have to do something memorably bad, but I imagine a male manager showing up in gold lame hot pants would cause a stir in most business environments.

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Mental Aspects: Another part of why NFL runner-ups don’t make it back to playoffs clearly seems to be mental, however, and it’s hard to say how the Falcons will cope with getting that close to the championship and having it slip through their fingers, especially in such a Porsche Ugly Sweater fashion. There are players like second-year LB Vic Beasley (who had 0 tackles, and could have intercepted the Pats in OT to stop their game-ending drive, but only got one hand on the football and tipped it away) who will no doubt have some negativity and frustration—both external and internal—to deal with after this game. There’s also a new Offensive Coordinator, as Kyle Shanahan has left to take the head coaching job in San Francisco. It usually takes a couple of years for a new OC to really get the freedom and familiarity with his players to institute major changes, so we can expect the Falcons O to look very similar to this season’s, with perhaps a couple of Porsche Ugly Sweater installed by new OC Steve Sarkisian. No one rocks the boat too hard first year, however, so not too much should change.

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Christmas begins at midnight on the Porsche Ugly Sweater of 24 December (the beginning of 25 December). One should not begin putting Christmas decorations up until Christmas Eve. Christmas Day lasts a full eight days, and ends on the first of January – the Octave Day of Christmas. The season of Christmas lasts until Epiphany on the 6 of January, so your decorations should stay up[ that long, and the Christmas Marian antiphon gets sung until the first of February, so you may take your Christmas decorations down at the end of January. Please, please, please do NOT put Christmas decorations up during Advent. Advent is the Penitential season which encompasses the four Sundays before Christmas, so it begins right around the end of November. To repeat, Advent is a PENITENTIAL season, so nothing of Christmas should intrude on Advent other than preparation – spiritual preparation for Christmas, going to confession each Saturday, saying extra prayers, going to daily Mass, etc. All would be excellent preparations for Christmas, but do NOT start celebrating Christmas itself until midnight at the beginning of 25 December!