Whatever you celebrate...

P.A.Bines wrote:
> ....at this time of year, may you celebrate it well, and survive until the
> New Year!

Well said, that denizen. Happy [insert midwinter festival of choice
here] to you all.

--
Innocuous Dave
(Don't worry, the fins on the bottom of the Xmas tree are just to hold
it up straight
--
"Consider the public. Never fear it nor despise it. Coax it, charm it,
interest it, stimulate it, shock it now and then if you must, make it
laugh, make it cry, but above all never, never, never bore the living
hell out of it."
Noel Coward
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In <20051225112637.997129421289177.DeleteThis@firedrake.org>, Roger Burton West wrote:
>In article <1135507029.71965.0.DeleteThis@iris.uk.clara.net>,
>Innocuous Dave <news.DeleteThis@StechPnocAcultM.org> wrote:
>
>>Well said, that denizen. Happy [insert midwinter festival of choice
>>here] to you all.
>
>Newton's birthday seems a good and neutral cause for celebration.
>
>(It seems to me very strange that the same people who protest about the
>secularisation of Christmas also protest when the secular types call
>their Mammonist midwinter celebration something other than "Christmas".
>But I am just a simple 'drake and my solution, while practical, would
>lead to indigestion.)
>
>>(Don't worry, the fins on the bottom of the Xmas tree are just to hold
>>it up straight
>
>Unfortunately, the fuel-cock is not secured against tiny earwig claws. I
>can hear the singing already...

run away! run away! run away! run away! run away! run away! run away!
run away! run away! run away! run away!

.....oops....

fly away! fly away! fly away! fly away! fly away! fly away! fly away!
fly away! fly away! fly away! fly away! fly away! fly away! fly away!
fly away! fly away! fly away! fly away! fly away! fly away! fly away!
fly away! fly away! fly away! fly away! fly away! fly away! fly away!
fly away! fly away! fly away! fly away! fly away!

and merry christmas if you must

bats
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In article <20051225132511.941217543165298 DeleteThis @firedrake.org>, bats wrote:

>fly away! fly away! fly away! fly away! fly away!

nonono, nishe batsh, have another thimble of rocket fuel...

>and merry christmas if you must

yesh, merry... thingy... shtuff. Shiny. Shiny stuff! Chaaaaaarge!

<falls over gently>

RSM Willie Earwig
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RSM Willie Earwig wrote:
> In article <20051225132511.941217543165298.RemoveThis@firedrake.org>, bats wrote:
>
>>fly away! fly away! fly away! fly away! fly away!
>
> nonono, nishe batsh, have another thimble of rocket fuel...

Oh you're kidding me. Those earwigs will drink /anything/!

Oh well, at least there's some spare in the... In the...

Alright. Who's had it away with the bowser?

--
Innocuous Dave
(At least *I* didn't sign for it)
--
"To you it's a potato, to me it's a potato. But to Sir Walter Bloody
Raleigh it's country estates, fine carriages, and as many girls as his
tongue can cope with. He's making a fortune out of the things; people
are smoking them, building houses out of them... They'll be eating them
next."
Sir Edmund Blackadder
(Blackadder II - 'Potato')
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In article <dokr24$ij5$1@nwrdmz03.dmz.ncs.ea.ibs-infra.bt.com>,
P.A.whurdleBinessmap RemoveThis @trambtinternetfiddlededee.com says...
> ...at this time of year, may you celebrate it well, and survive until the
> New Year!
> Au Res.,
> Paul
>
>
>
Happy Xmas everybody! May the light find you all, even in the darkest
places.


--
Diem
Guardian of Gargoyles
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In <MPG.1e18b31e783fa36698970f RemoveThis @usenet.plus.net>, DM wrote:
>Happy Xmas everybody! May the light find you all, even in the darkest
>places.

I honestly can't remember how much I may have posted here about what's
been going on in my life; I've been cut orf from computers quite a lot,
and generally fraught. My father had a stroke on 28th November and
lost speech and the ability to swallow, and my brother (from London) and
I (from Bristol) have been going over and staying in Pa's house turn and
turn about, visiting him every day in hospital and trying to make sense
of his slightly dyslexic and extremely elliptical communications on a
pad of paper. The doctors looked grave and the speech therapist talked
in terms of months not weeks and they were talking about putting a tube
directly into his stomach because feeding through a tube down one's nose
is bad news after a time...

This past week he started to swallow efficiently enough for them to be
able to discontinue the tube-feeding (on Tuesday), and when I came away
for my Christmas elsewhere (my brother has friends in Oxford he can
spend Christmas with) on Friday evening my father said "Happy Christmas"
as I left. OK, most people wouldn't have known that's what he was
saying, but I've been doing the speech exercises with him all week and
*I* knew. And he'd also told me to "hang them on the radiator" quite
clearly apart from not being able to do "th", when I said I still had
some damp clothes from the washing I'd done. He's going to get his
speech back.

I got my best Christmas present a couple of days early.

Merry Christmas to all in the Village, and here's to a Happy New Year!

Beetle
--
MA, Cartographer, Bombardier, Weather Witch and Village Storekeeper
Selling atonal apples, and amplified heat, and Pressed Rat's
collection of dog-legs and feet. Coffee mornings a speciality.
Recently made a Dame of the Village by Our Princess!
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Roger Burton West wrote:
> In article <1135518195.29129.0.DeleteThis@lotis.uk.clara.net>,
> Innocuous Dave <news.DeleteThis@StechPnocAcultM.org> wrote:
>
>>Oh well, at least there's some spare in the... In the...
>>Alright. Who's had it away with the bowser?
>
> Shouldn't have wrapped it in Christmas paper, should you? I mean, whom
> else is a tanker full of rocket fuel _likely_ to be a present for?

I must confess to a certain ignorance of draconic customs, but wasn't
previously aware that wrapping paper came printed with such festive
phrases as "Danger!" or "Oxidising Agent - Keep Away From Flame" or
variations on that theme. I've not seen presents wrapped with the Space
Ministry crest before, either. Apart from the ashtray in my office, of
course, but nobody's...

*Checks office*

But nobody's pinched that yet.

--
Innocuous Dave
(Working out how to explain all this to the Head Shed)
--
After about 30 minutes I puked all over my airplane. I said to myself,
"Man, you made a big mistake."
Chuck Yeager regards his first flight.
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In article <MPG.1e18b31e783fa36698970f DeleteThis @usenet.plus.net>,
DM <dmm DeleteThis @diemNOTzone.co.uk> wrote:

>Happy Xmas everybody! May the light find you all, even in the darkest
>places.

eeeek!

<scatter>
<hide>
<roll into balls>

but thank you for the thought anyway. a very wood-filled year to you!

The Woodlice
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In <1135530678.99629.0 DeleteThis @dyke.uk.clara.net>, Innocuous Dave wrote:
>Innocuous Dave
>(Working out how to explain all this to the Head Shed)

The traditional way is "Warehouse fire", isn't it? Or might that just
make it all worse?

Beetle
--
MA, Cartographer, Bombardier, Weather Witch and Village Storekeeper
Selling atonal apples, and amplified heat, and Pressed Rat's
collection of dog-legs and feet. Coffee mornings a speciality.
Recently made a Dame of the Village by Our Princess!
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--- "P.A.Bines"
<P.A.whurdleBinessmap.RemoveThis@trambtinternetfiddlededee.com>
wrote:

> ...at this time of year, may you celebrate it well,
> and survive until the
> New Year!
> Au Res.,
> Paul
>
>
And beyond in health and happiness.

Jackie



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anon2765 RemoveThis @firedrake.org wrote:
> In <1135530678.99629.0 RemoveThis @dyke.uk.clara.net>, Innocuous Dave wrote:
>
>>Innocuous Dave
>>(Working out how to explain all this to the Head Shed)
>
>
> The traditional way is "Warehouse fire", isn't it? Or might that just
> make it all worse?

That would probably involve replacing the East Wing for the sake of
veracity, and since it's grade 2* listed it would be far more trouble
than it's worth. Then there's the smoke and noise to consider. It's an
awful lot of fuss.

I'll send the gamekeepers out on a 20 mile tab and then list it as Lost
On Exercise. They don't check these things anyway.

--
Innocuous Dave
(Heavy weighs the desk that bears the crown)
--
"Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour.
Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT'S
relativity"
Albert Einstein
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In article <20051225174118.842776360529573.DeleteThis@firedrake.org>,
anon2765.DeleteThis@firedrake.org () wrote:

> The traditional way is "Warehouse fire", isn't it? Or might that just
> make it all worse?

How about "Sodding great oil depot fire"?

--
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On 2005-12-25 14:44:54 +0000, anon2765.TakeThisOut@firedrake.org said:
>
>
> I got my best Christmas present a couple of days early.
>
> Merry Christmas to all in the Village, and here's to a Happy New Year!

That's wonderful. Thanks for letting us know. Keep in touch, please.
--
The Miller
Grains and black powder ground - wood turned - batteries charged
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