RE: Ding dong merilly on high....

["Mick Furlong" <dorsai@xxxxxxx>]

I agree about the commercialism, my brother and his wife have so many
presents for their two little monsters (age 7 and 3) that they have asked
my
parents to look after the kids for a whole evening to give them time to
wrap
them!

Today I shelled out 25 quid for a piece of Pokeman junk which is advertised
as *JUST* like the one some jerk uses on a Pokeman TV show. The thing is
like a caculator/memory bank and probably cost about 3 quid to manufacture.
Just wait until they are older then "Unka Michael" can set them
off on the
PC trail ;) In fact the seven year old is already making hints as to how
cool one of my laptops would be in his bedroom ;)

Mick (Scrooge) Furlong


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Phil Harris [mailto:phillip.harris1@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 21 December 2001 15:09
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Ding dong merilly on high....
>
>
>
> Whoo hoo! Someone else who's a miserable git just like me!
>
> Actually ... It's not Christmas that I hate but what it has become, a
> huge excuse for companies to get kids to ask for the latest toy which
> changes day on day. Anyone who celebrates Christmas as a religious
event
> then I have no wish to p*ss on their fire but this year the usual
> commercialism has been compounded by unemployment (my best man and his
> partner have both found that they've been made redundant from NTL this
> morning too) and so I just wish we could skip the whole thing.
>
> I have no religious leanings which is one reason why I consider
> Christmas to be a bit of a waste of time. This was much to the
distress
> of the vicar who married me and Jo last month as after the service I
> went to thank her for it all and said "...if I was in any way
religious
> then you're just the kind of vicar I'd like."
>
> Thankfully she already knew all this, gave me a hug and said
"From you
> I'll take that as a compliment Phil." *grin* I like my local
vicar ...
> She's cool!
>
> Phil
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Stuart Booth [mailto:stuart@xxxxxxx]
> > Sent: 21 December 2001 14:52
> > To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> > Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Ding dong merilly on high....
> >
> >
> > On 21 Dec 01, at 14:24, Phil Harris wrote:
> >
> > > I hate Christmas...
> >
> > That's two of us then... any more?
> >
> > StuartB
> > // Who hasn't laid any CAT5 cable yet
> > // ...but now knows to lay MORE than he thinks he'll need... ;)
> >
> > --
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