Celebrating Christmas without subscribing to Christianity is like watching the Super Bowl without having watched a single regular-season football gam… - Anthony Shaffer

: You can take it from me that Tēa's an engaging little trollop, and she suits me mightily. Mind you, she takes a bit of keeping up with, it's a good thing I'm pretty much of an Olympic sexual athlete. </br> : I suppose these days you're concentrating on the sprints rather than on the long distance stuff. </br> : Not so, dear boy. I'm in the pink of condition. I could copulate for England at any distance. </br> : Well, they do say in Olympic circles, that the point is to take part, rather than to win, so I suppose there's hope for us all.

Christmas sits like a black hole on the calendar, and the other holidays implied by "happy holidays"—Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Boxing Day, New Year's Day, etc.—are powerless to be drawn in by its force.

: You must be joking. </br> : You would know it if I were.