I agreed with KTRS's John Carney yesterday that it looks odd when people put Christmas decorations on their lawn without taking down their everyday non-Christmas decorations. As he put it, when people do that, they end up with "pink flamingos next to the manger."
It's even stranger, I think, when people combine aspects of Christmas that don't go together. One year in the '80s, some former neighbors toyed with the Nativity scene by putting Jesus, Mary, and Joseph in an igloo, placing penguins nearby, and a sign that read, "Christmas At The North Pole."
Fortunately, the neighbors must have concluded or someone must have told them that was a misfire. The following Christmas, they went back to a more traditional Nativity setting.
