Posts Tagged with 'christmas'

It’s quite a bit later than last year, but Christmas is finally upon us. The shops are starting to fill up with Christmas tat and the adverts have started on TV in a big way. I wonder if the “economic downturn” (read that as “the consequences of some super greedy bankers playing silly [...]

Interesting links for 4 Dec 07 - 10 Jan 08:

Government rejects elephants for pets e-petition - Killjoys!!! I was quite keen on being able to have a little bit of Africa in my back garden (when I get one. A garden that is).
Man’s death unnoticed for a year - Wow!! A whole year before [...]

Christmas isn’t Christmas without certain things, and one of those things is the old classic kids movie The Snowman. The most well known part of the whole movie is when the boy and the snowman go “flying through the air” - sing along everyone… “We’re walking in the air…”.
Unfortunately it’s not on TV [...]

Two little girls in our block of flats are making sure Father Christmas knows where to stop in a month’s time. The decorations have been up for about a week already, but the inflatable rising Father Christmas is a new addition this evening.

  
(Excuse the lack of focus on the second - I don’t have [...]

Merry Christmas everyone.

Sorry folks, I’m going to be a spoil-sport again - bah, humbug. Contrary to popular belief, Coca-Cola’s marketing team didn’t invent the modern image of Santa Claus - you know, the big, fat, jolly, mince pie munching old git in a red-and-white suit with black boots. This is actually another urban legend.
This legend is [...]

Here’s a parody you probably won’t hear very often - unless of course you listen to Chris Moyles on Radio 1. It’s a humorous Christmas version of Eminem’s Stan performed by Chris Moyles a couple of years ago. He plays it every year, and I thought I’d share it with you. Enjoy

It’s that time of year again where anyone and everyone who can broadcast music will be blasting out Christmas songs for everyone to hear. You’ll hear the golden oldies you grew up with and then the same song again, but this time sung by a modern artist or group, just in case you hadn’t heard [...]