Christmas Competition
Ok this is for charity so pay attention. For every person who responds to this posting I will put £1 in a jam jar. Your response should include your favourite christmas(ish) quote and the details of your favourite charity. Come the New Year I'll read through all the quotes and decide which is my favourite (I'll also give my reasons and feedback for the unsuccessful quotes where required). All the money in the jam jar (once the jam has been hosed off- ho ho ho) will be donated to the winner's charity. Clear? Then get posting. For all you posting virgins out there who just read the blog and never comment this is your excuse to sign up and get blogging. Merry Christmas everybody. J x
9 comments:
Am I allowed a Christmas-related joke? It does contain a Christmassy quote (and I'm rooting for Macmillan Nurses here).
Did you hear about the international chess tournament which took place in a London hotel just before Christmas one year. The winning team were standing by the reception desk, reliving the moment when they were declared the winners, when the hotel manager came and threw them out.
Apparently he could not stand 'chess nuts boasting in an open foyer'....
'I'll get you my pretty...and your little dog too!'
A quote that I associate closely with Christmas, seeing as 'The Wizard of Oz' was screened almost anually during my childhood. It also is one of the few memories I have of nanny (mums' mum) who passed on when I was five. I remember cuddling up too her big arms when the wicked witch appeared.
Co-incidentally I have just come back from seeing the film on the big screen (my first time)and it is magnificent. The colours are amazing, particularly during the Munchkinland scenes and the clean up and restoration are incredible ... did you know Glindas' wand has coloured jewels at the end? Or that the Tin Man has a rivet over his nose? I'd never noticed before ... and the Wicked Witch! She is sooooo green!
nominated charity: sussex beacon
christmas quote for you from a virgin blogger.
Bah Humbug this time next week it will all be over
Hi Handsome
Just thought of a christmas memory aswell. Mum always made the christmas puds and it was my duty to go to the Pub and make my Dad but the stout for it. Ialso got a arrowroot biscuit.
Dad brought the stout did not headbut it!
ok my chosen charity Pasque hospice
Welcome virgin. But I think you should tell us who you are as well. When I read your quote I thought you were my mother (she says it every Christmas) and I was astounded that she was blogging but your further comments make me think you're someone else entirely. So who are you? (Just made up another rule, anonymous people can't win).
From the wording of the comments and the eccentric grammar, I think we can safely assume that 'gameoldbird' is my mum. Bless.
Hi Jonathan,
Here are a few quotes I have so many favourites that it is hard to choose.
Max Lucado,
"Were it not for the shepherds, there would have been no reception. And were it not for a group of stargazers, there would have been no gifts".
Katharine Whitehorn,
"From a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist it would be necessary to invent it".
Frank McKinney Hubbard
"Next to a circus there ain't nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit".
W. J. Cameron
"There has been only one Christmas -- the rest are anniversaries".
Have a great Christmas and all the very best for 2007. See you soon
My Chosen charity would be Amnesty.
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