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- From: mtemplar@redunser.demon.co.uk (Alan Ralph)
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- Subject: Re: Christmas? But it's only November!!
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- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 20:48:12 +0000
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- In article <1992Nov16.053734.12729@ucc.su.OZ.AU> mar@physics.su.OZ.AU (David Mar) writes:
- >"Which brings me to another point. (For those North Americans who recently
- >learnt what the word 'whinge' means, here is another example! :-) ) Why, oh
- >why, in a country where the beaches are packed to capacity on Christmas Day,
- >where Christmas dinner barbecues have to be reorganised because of total
- >fire bans, and where eating cold turkey slices and salad for Christmas
- >lunch while shooing away pesky flies is normal, why must we put up with an
- >overweight man in a furry red suit driving a sleigh through tons of fake
- >bloody _snow_ every Christmas??
- >
- >"Aaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrggggggggghhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!"
- >
- >- Danger Mouse.
-
- "Oh that's easy" says MonTemplar, who's been sheltering from the food fights
- uder his golf umbrella. "It's a hangover from the days when Oz was the
- biggest penal colony in the British empire - the colonial authorities made
- the convicts celebrate Christmas at the official time in order to humiliate
- them into behaving themselves (with the possible exception of that well-known
- party-pooper Ned Kelly :-) )"
-
- He braces himself for the response from the assembled Ozzies....
- --
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