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Find me Thomas Pynchon.
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You have a look to see what your pile cream’s come out like and you nearly lose your supper.
:lol: That is clearly a mincing harlequin…
Find me Owd Roger.
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Find me a bowing harlequin.
I’d love to think you are right, Slayer.
A good draw, I think, but it was never going to be as bad as last time. The tests will come in t’knockout rounds. I think we’re better than we were in Japan. If everyone stays fit, we should go a long way. I can’t see beyond Brazil, though, if everyone plays to potential. Germany always give it a good go too, regardless, it seems, of the quality of their squad. At home, I’ll expect them to be there or thereabouts.
:lol: It is so much more exciting than Chrimbo. I’ll be lucky not to explode before June.
Once in Royal David’s City stood a lonely cattle shed,
Where a mother held her baby.
You’d do well to remember the things He later said.
When you’re stuffing yourselves at the Christmas parties,
You’ll just laugh when I tell you to take a running jump.
You’re missing the point I’m sure does not need making
That Christmas spirit is not what you drink.So how can you laugh when your own mother’s hungry,
And how can you smile when the reasons for smiling are wrong?
And if I just messed up your thoughtless pleasures,
Remember, if you wish, this is just a Christmas song.(Hey! Santa! Pass us that bottle, will you?)
Jethro Tull* ~ Christmas Song
I remember talking to the Tomster and Owen about this subject last year(?). I think a case can be made that the old midwinter festival is slowly usurping the Christian Christmas. These celebrations are part of a mutable culture: I see similar trends in Easter, Bonfire Night and Halloween. A reverting to older ideas about spring, the end of summer and the transition into winter. The Christian veneers are starting to rub off and expose the older wood beneath, I think.
* Who else?
There’s one of the top Spanish teams that work like that, Athletic Bilbao, I think. Like the Yorkshire cricket team used to do, you have to be born around the area to play for the team.
It would be interesting if that was the case in Britain. Newcastle and Sunderland would be, and always would’ve been, fearsome teams – as would Liverpool and West Ham.
