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Very good holiday decor. I wish I celebrate new year eve there.

Oh, not another deer head. They're sooooo over. Especially for Rudolph, there.

How amazing!

magnaverde-I think the head is used in a completely different context here. I mean, this is a f-ing hunting room for god's sake! If anyone is allowed to use heads it's this person.

Loufromlou, I probably should have added the little eye-rolling avatar just to be sure everyone realized I was joking, although I figured the Rudoph allusion made that pretty clear. Not clear enough, I guess. Oh, well.

Anyway, whatever my opinion of the use of animal heads & antlers & pelts as decor in contemporary rooms, let me assure you that I think it's wrong to rewrite history after-the-fact by making a historic room like this conform to the moral/ethical standards of today, and that I find it downright silly to make them conform to today's aesthetic standards, since, these days, those have a shelf-life of no more than a year or so.

In other words, in "objecting" to Rudolph, I was neither making a PETA-like condemnation of taxidermy in general, nor was I making fun of PETA people, who are at least sincere in their beliefs.

No, in referring to deer heads as being "over"--in a historic room, no less--I was making fun of silly people who follow ephemeral trends, since it was only a season or so ago that deer heads--even blue plastic deer heads--were the trendy crowd's objets du jour. Now, of course, ya can't even give the da*n things away. They're soooo 2007.

If that's still too confusing, let me just put it like this: I'd love to have a room like that green room at the top, Rudolph & all.