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<HTML>So here it is, the time of year when we are busy hanging up our stockings on the wall, asking ourselves what have we done, dreaming of treetops glistening, and simply having a terrible time with indigestion. Remember to be nice to all your relatives, give presents of certain books to all the literate ones, and on no account let the fairies keep you sober for the day. See you all in the New Year, and in the meantime -
Now rest ye merry, Nextians
Let nothing you dismay
Remember that Well of Lost Plots
Will be published one day
And we shall see what happens Next
To Landen and Thursday
And tidings of Pickwick and Flakk,
Pickwick and Flakk,
With tidings of Pickwick and Flakk!
<HTML>And also a very merry Christmas from me and the other three cats in this house: Chomsky who is too lazy to bother using the Internet, Klinsmann who is too busy looking for things to murder in interesting ways, and Heidi who is a) too much of a lady to sully her pretty paws with such things, b) too retiring and reclusive to wish to communicate other than by proxy, or c) not the sharpest pencil in the box, depending on one's personal view of her. Wilfred also wishes everyone a merry... er... hic. He will be doing the getting drunk on my behalf!</HTML>