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Happy Christmas!

Thursday, 24th December 2009

So, dear and gentle reader*, here's wishing you a splendid and very merry Christmas. Thanks for being here this year and for all your comments and contributions to this blog. It's not the same without you. Anyway, here are Shane and Kirsty performing one of the few Christmas songs worth a damn.


 

*Not actually a description that fits all of you but, hey, season of goodwill to all men and all that...


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ndm

December 24th, 2009 6:47pm Report this comment

Happy Christmas, Merry Christmas. With all this Happy Holidays stuff (although not so much this year) I'm losing track of my happies and merries - although, perhaps, it's the egg nog.

Edmund Jerk

December 24th, 2009 8:30pm Report this comment

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Jez

December 24th, 2009 10:17pm Report this comment

Happy Christmas pal.

Have a good one.

Jez

December 24th, 2009 10:18pm Report this comment

Happy Christmas pal.

Have a good one.

Snowman

December 26th, 2009 5:48pm Report this comment

Alex, thank you very much, you are a STAR.

The best Christmas ballad ever, so fitting for our useless age on a drip of avarice.

Have the Merriest and Happiest ever, and best luck for the 365 days that follow.

Tiberius

December 26th, 2009 8:19pm Report this comment

I have absolutely no idea why this song tops most of the Christmas (or for that matter any other) polls.

Perhaps I'm starting from the wrong place with it...

Bill Rees

December 29th, 2009 4:32pm Report this comment

Tiberias, like you I'm missing something with this song and the performance.
Maybe there is a subliminal message that just isn't getting through to me.

Shane Glackin

December 30th, 2009 7:27pm Report this comment

Happy Christmas Alex, thanks for a year of entertainingly well-argued wrongness :)

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