From: john@n00.spam.scroll.demon.co.uk 
  
 Dear all 
  
 I€wanted to send out some sort of holiday greeting to you, but it is 
 difficult in the current climate of political correctness to know 
 exactly what to say without offending someone. So I met with my 
 solicitor yesterday and on his advice say as follows: 
  
 Please accept with no obligation, implied or implicit, my best wishes 
 for an environmentally conscious, socially responsible, low stress,€ 
 non-addictive, gender neutral celebration of the winter solstice 
 holiday, practised within the most enjoyable traditions of the religious 
 persuasion of your choice, or secular practices of your choice, with 
 respect for the religious/secular persuasions and/or traditions of 
 others, or their choice not to practise religious or secular traditions 
 at all. 
  
 Also I wish you a fiscally successful, personally fulfilling, 
 and€medically uncomplicated recognition of the onset of the generally 
 accepted calendar year 2007, but not without due respect for the 
 calendars of choice of other cultures and without regard to the race, 
 creed, colour, age, disability, religious faith, or sexual preference of 
 the wishee. 
  
 By accepting this greeting, you are accepting these terms: 
  
 This greeting is subject to clarification or withdrawal. It is freely 
 transferable with no alteration to the original greeting. It implies no 
 promise by the wishor to actually implement any of the wishes for 
 himself or others, and is void where prohibited by law, and is revocable 
 at the sole discretion of the wishor. 
  
 This wish is warranted to perform as expected within the usual 
 application of good tidings for a period of one year, or until the 
 issuance of a subsequent holiday greeting, whichever comes 
 first, and warranty is limited to replacement of this wish or issuance 
 of a new wish at the sole discretion of the wishor. 
  
 Disclaimer: 
  
 No trees were harmed in the sending of this message, however, while a€ 
 significant number of electrons were inconvenienced though no bits were 
 lost. 
  
 PS An old-fashioned card of a picture I took in Zurich mentioning 
 the X-word (Xmas) can be found on 
  
 http://www.scroll.demon.co.uk/jpg/xmas/Xmas2006.jpg 
 -- 
 JohnM 
  
 --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05 
  * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)