Merry Christmas!!!

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I know I posted this last year, but it's awesome so here it is again. What is this freaky Christmas visitation? The Lord our saviour? The Grim Reaper? Gandalf? Or Vigo the Carpathian? What do you reckon?

I would like to wish you all the very merriest of Christmases and wish each and every one of you joy, love, success and splendour for 2011. I'm off slap some rock 'n' roll on the old record player, watch Die Hard and try to stop the kittens destroying the Christmas tree and opening all the presents before tomorrow. I shall see you all very soon, when I've recovered from my very special Christmas whiskey hangover.

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  1. Jay Watson24 December 2010 at 21:30

    A very Merry Christmas to you too Jinx, and to your hubby!!!
    You're one cool cat!!!
    (an American "in-joke" since Jinx the Cat was a character on the Pixie and Dixie cartoons/Huckleberry Hound Show in the early 1960's)
    best,
    r/e

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  2. Dr Blood25 December 2010 at 09:45

    Merry Christmas! I posted the animated version of "A Christmas Carol" on my blog and it's still piss-yer-pants-scary in a few places even for adults. ;)

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  3. Jenny Krueger27 December 2010 at 13:54

    Merry Christmas Jinx!! :D

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  4. Matthew Coniam29 December 2010 at 14:30

    Hope you had a wombling merry Christmas.
    I see you favour the whiskey method of staggering into another year unprepared. I took the chianti option. It and I watched Blood From the Mummy's Tomb together, and also Blood Beast Terror, the one with the woman that turns into a moth.
    Seriously - what IS that in that photo? Is it possible it might be Roy Wood?

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  5. Viking Wolf Woman3 January 2011 at 07:57

    I think the specter is probably Krampus, who is this Christmas Demon dude that apparently accompanies St Nicholas, St Nick gives the good kids candy and presents, Krampus punishes the bad ones. True story. You can see Krampus parades on YouTube, they're all kinds of scary.

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