tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8670069258372374568.post3030291824949282354..comments2024-03-28T06:42:11.183+00:00Comments on Hypnogoria: FOLKLORE ON FRIDAY - Twelfth NightJim Moonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15834711093704256462noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8670069258372374568.post-44402551793185033062017-01-08T13:47:35.301+00:002017-01-08T13:47:35.301+00:00Overheard on the train, a mother talking to her yo...Overheard on the train, a mother talking to her young son...<br /><br />"And when we get home, we'll have to de-Christmas the house."<br /><br />"Aww. Do we have to?"<br /><br />"Yes, it's bad luck to leave the decorations up."<br /><br />"But that means we'll be wasting money."<br /><br />It turns out the kid had spent 40p on a cheap, tacky good luck chairman to keep bad luck away. Doing other stuff to get rid of bad luck, such as taking down the decorations, would mean that 40p was wasted! His mother wasn't convinced by this argument for some reason...<br />Paul Ingersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02832938470863813384noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8670069258372374568.post-53893230434490258462017-01-07T13:38:09.506+00:002017-01-07T13:38:09.506+00:00Christmas is what you make it. I throughly recomme...Christmas is what you make it. I throughly recommend lashings of whisky, M.R. James on the BBC and long walks in atmospheric countryside to burn off excess goose. I also like to read The Victor Book for Boys (various years). I do not recommend watching anything on television, unless the BBC do another James.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8670069258372374568.post-32713844125915039922017-01-07T10:58:12.856+00:002017-01-07T10:58:12.856+00:00I may observe 12th night festivities in the future...I may observe 12th night festivities in the future. I have pretensions of returning to a more traditional Dickensian Christmas every year but my traditionalist intentions are obliterated by the avalanche of selection boxes and Noddy Holder. I think it may be a goose for dinner next year, and given the price of them it will probably be a Canadian one that I deliberately mow down in my car.<br />ST.CLAIREAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com