RE: Ding dong merilly on high....

["Kenneth Watt" <kennwatt@xxxxxxx>]

This is *exactly* why I hate Christmas.

To all the people that celebrate the occasion for religious
reasons...more power to you if that's you're bag, but I cannot go the
commercial reality.

K.

> -----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... ;)
> >
> > --
> > Stuart Booth
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> >
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