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      It starts off just as you'd expect.
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    <blockquote><q>Yes, it’s that time of year again. No sooner does an
    important traditional religious holiday roll around than the PC-brigade feel
    the need to strip-mine it of its original significance, just so’s no-one’s
    feeling get upset.
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      However, it doesn't quite continue as you were thinking.
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    <blockquote><q>It is the Christians who have the most gall of all, daring to
    attach the name of some first-century Palestinian to a once-proud British
    festival. ‘Yule’ I can live with, despite its being a continental
    bastardisation of our British pronunciation ‘Geola’, but ‘Christmas’ is
    just wrong. You even have to mispronounce ‘Christ’ to say
    it.</q></blockquote>
    <p>
      An excellent piece of satire from Nathaniel Tapley on <a
      href="http://www.liberalconspiracy.org/2007/12/14/its-that-time-of-year-again/">Liberal
      Conspiracy</a>, which is well worth a read for a good laugh.
    </p>
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      <small>NP: <cite>Giant Steps</cite>, John Coltrane</small>
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