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1:23 am
2nd January 10


Ciderman

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an environmentally conscious,
socially responsible, low stress,
non-addictive, gender neutral,
celebration of the solstice
holiday, practiced within the most
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persuasion of your choice, or secular
practices of your choice, with respect
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and/or traditions of others, or their
choice not to practice religious or
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and a fiscally successful,
personally fulfilling, and medically
uncomplicated recognition of the onset
of the generally accepted calendar
year 2009, but not without due respect
for the calendars of choice of other
cultures whose contributions to
society have helped make New Zealand great,
(not to imply that New Zealand is necessarily
greater than any other country), and without regard to the
race, creed, colour, age, physical ability,
religious faith, choice of computer platform,
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11:43 am
2nd January 10


Maureen

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Derbyshire

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The Reckoning
Punch, 2 January 1907

 

 

 

Now the festive season's ended
Comes the sequel parents dread;
Pale and visibly distended
Bilious Tommy lies in bed,
Face to face with retribution
And an outraged constitution.
 
What a change since, pink and perky
Tommy swiftly put away
Three enormous goes of turkey
At the feast on Christmas Day,
Getting by judicious bluffing
Double quantities of stuffing.
 
As to pudding, who could reckon
Tommy's load in terms of size?
Who attempt to keep a check on
Tommy's numberless mince pies?
Hopeless task! His present pallor
Proves his prodigies of valour.
 
Then I found him, notwithstanding
Such colossal feats as these,
After dinner on the landing
Secretly devouring cheese,
Flanked by ginger-beer-and-coffee,
Sweetened with a slab of toffee.
 
I, his uncle, gave him warning,
Showed him the error of his ways,
Hinted at tomorrow morning,
Talked about my boyhood days;
All in vain I waved the bogey
He despised me as a fogey.
 
Well, perhaps the pains he suffers
May be gifts of fairy gold,
Since he now says, 'Only duffers
Eat as much as they can hold.'
Thus, through physic and privations,
Tommy learns his limitations.

 

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”~ Mark Twain,

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