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SLIGHTLY WRONG QUOTES XMAS COLLECTION 2014
What better way to irritate your favourite pedants on Christmas day than by watching their faces contort in pain at t-shirts and sweatshirts of their favourite Christmas films and mottos ruined by a slightly wrong quote? That satisfaction is worth a million PS4s.
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“MERRY CHRISTMAS YA FILTHY BEAST” - Home On His Own 2
“I’M THINKING OF A WHITE CHRISTMAS” - Bill Cosby
“NOW I HAVE GOT A GUN HO-HO-HO” - Jim McClure, Died Hard
“EVERY TIME A BELL RINGS, AN ANGEL RINGS A BELL” - It’s A Wonderful Lie
Also for sale again is last year’s Slightly Wrong Quotes Xmas Collection:
“I MADE MY FAMILY INVISIBLE ” - Home On His Own
“HO HO HO HAPPY BIRTHDAY” - Father Christopher
“YOU’LL SHOOT YOUR EYE OFF” - A Christmas Tale
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Santa Larvae
Hurry down my cecum tonight!
A nematode larva (Contracaecum) in the digestive tract of a seal. The eggs of this parasitic nematode use fish as an intermediate host before infecting piscivorous mammals, including humans who may forget to clean their holiday salmon!
This festive image was captured by veterinary pathologist @velphegor_vetpath via Instagram.
Happy holidays everyone!
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- Father Christmas, Letters from Father Christmas, December 21st 1933
(Illustration by J.R.R. Tolkien himself)
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New York. Santa Has an Emotional Crisis, Schenectady, 1953.
Snowed under with more than 10,000 letters from tiny friends, Santa Claus wants to know “how can I Acknowledge all this mail before Christmas.” For weeks now he has been taking time out from his workshop everyday to read the names of the youthful letter-writers over the General Electric television station WRGB, and radio station WGY. Each week, however, the backlog becomes worse. Now he says, “some of the little folk are writing second letters when they think I’m overlooking their first.”
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The team meet a rather diminutive Santa Clause (not sure why he ended up so small-sometimes I am just not getting it quite right) who has got some nice gifts for them all. He notes that they often mostly wear the same clothes so intends to spice things up a bit.
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Father Christmas Fun Fact
One Claus is not enough.
Over a span of 23 years in the early 20th Century, the children of JRR Tolkien were lucky enough to receive annual letters from Father Christmas, written in his recognisably chilly script and accompanied by vivid, richly-coloured illustrations.
Photograph: The Tolkien Estate Ltd 1976
Going far beyond the usual promises of treats for the nice and chastisement for the naughty, these letters introduced the Tolkien children to the ongoing saga of life at the North Pole. They tell of raids by present-thieving goblins, and the peril-fraught adventures of Santa’s polar bear companion.
As is appropriate for such delicate treasures, the letters have been seldom seen in public, but we’re pleased to offer our visitors a wonderful chance to savour them, colourful pictures and all. Not only is one of the letters on display in the Bodleian Libraries’ Treasury right now, the collection is set to feature in our major exhibition for summer 2018, Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth.
Photograph: The Tolkien Estate Ltd 1976
Those looking for a little more background information (and who are old enough for such a revealing peek behind the curtain) will find new, lovely features on the letters in The Guardian and on Radio 4′s Today [skip to 1 hour and 44 minutes].
Both of those pieces feature plenty of input from the Bodleian Libraries’ Tolkien archivist, Catherine McIlwaine, for whom “The Christmas letters are probably my favourite things in the whole collection… so detailed and beautifully illustrated ”
Those keeping a close eye on the Bodleian Libraries’ social media will be hearing from Catherine again very soon…
Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earthopens at the Bodleian Libraries’ Weston Library on 1 June 2018 and runs until 28 October 2018.
All wrapped up for Christmas - tinsel and all!! You never know what you might find behind the Christmas tree!! Merry Christmas to all friends!!
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A very Merry Christmas to all you lovely people! ✨
Santa has some fun with his favorite elf’s big hard candy cane at the north pole!
Check out this full Christmas video here at ChubVideos.com
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A mat for Santa. With space for crunchy carrots and something a little merry to sustain him on his travels, along with a checklist for Christmas Eve tasks and even a place to write your own message to Mr Claus.
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