Be good, for goodness' sake
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ventaTwo important questions:
The other day, I read someone casually referring to "leaving milk and cookies out for Santa" - like it was a normal thing. Frankly, I feel t'old chap is getting rather a poor deal in that household. I always left a mince pie, a glass of sherry, and a carrot (for the reindeer). At lunchtime today I heard someone old enough to have grandchildren waxing quite irate about one of her grandchildren having mentioned leaving whisky out for Santa - she thought it should be sherry, too.
So, what did you leave ?
Owing to time pressures one evening last week, my evening meal was formed from a packet of Monster Much (pre-gig) and some toast and Marmite (post-gig). The packet of Monster Munch was very large, but the actual Munches themselves were disappointingly small. I'm sure you used to be able to wear Monster Munch as rings - and yes, I know my fingers are bigger than whenever I last ate Monster Munch twenty years ago - but now they're tiny little things.
Have Monster Munch gone a bit Wagon Wheels and shrunk ?
The other day, I read someone casually referring to "leaving milk and cookies out for Santa" - like it was a normal thing. Frankly, I feel t'old chap is getting rather a poor deal in that household. I always left a mince pie, a glass of sherry, and a carrot (for the reindeer). At lunchtime today I heard someone old enough to have grandchildren waxing quite irate about one of her grandchildren having mentioned leaving whisky out for Santa - she thought it should be sherry, too.
So, what did you leave ?
Owing to time pressures one evening last week, my evening meal was formed from a packet of Monster Much (pre-gig) and some toast and Marmite (post-gig). The packet of Monster Munch was very large, but the actual Munches themselves were disappointingly small. I'm sure you used to be able to wear Monster Munch as rings - and yes, I know my fingers are bigger than whenever I last ate Monster Munch twenty years ago - but now they're tiny little things.
Have Monster Munch gone a bit Wagon Wheels and shrunk ?
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Date: 2006-12-20 11:09 pm (UTC)In my house we had Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Commet, Cupid, Donner and Blitzen. Even if you count Rudolph, who are the other three ?
The other day, one of our sysadmins was in our office asking what games reindeer played. No one seemed to know, but it appeared to be bugging Sysadmin #1 as he wanted to know exactly what it was Rudolph wasnt allowed to join in with. He seemed happy when I suggested Reindeer Chess and Reindeer Backgammon (like ordinary chess and backgammon, but with more antlers).
Irrelevantly - I just got your sms. Glad to hear you liked them :)
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Date: 2006-12-20 11:10 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-12-21 12:51 pm (UTC)Reindeer games, my mum explained at length are similar to playground games- lots of running and exertion and mostly some variety of tag. Again with the horsey comparisons, they play tag a lot. And so we shouldn't leave people, or reindeer out of games coz its NOT NICE. Reassure Sysadmin that they were all childish energy exerting games that left the others too TIRED rather than snow-blind to pull the sleigh, hence Rudolf having the enthusiasm and ENERGY to lead them with cheery encouragements.