I used to live one street over from a street that all of the houses competed to see who could be over the top the most with Christmas lights and decorations.
There were some truly incredible efforts, with animatronics, running trains, everything you can imagine. Hundreds of people would make the journey to see and over time a kind of street fair was built with vendors even selling hot chocolate/coffee (remember this was in a truly cold winter climate with snow and everything).
But of all of the elaborate lights and decorations on the houses (they were spectacular) my favorite was the house at the end of the cul-de-sac who simply wrote out in script in lights "Bah Humbag!"
It was a classic.
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