a little list

TEN UNTRUTHS ABOUT CHRISTMAS:
(and I made these up all by myself)

Father Christmas no longer lives in Lapland. In 1997 he decided he was ‘too old for the cold’ and now lives in a thatched cottage in Warwickshire.

The smallest decoration ever made is a bauble the size of an atom.

For Christmas lunch on Christmas Island, they always have roast reindeer

If you take the number of Christmas number ones achieved by Cliff Richard, and multiply it by the number of inns that turned away Joseph and Mary, you get the total number of drug addicts my mum has had Christmas Eve sex with

There are 10 different ways to say MERRY CHRISTMAS in Finnish, one of which is ‘Buttelly Lopski’

Dr Who actor Patrick Troughton played the Harrod’s in-store Santa for a total of 71 years

In the year 2237, Christmas Day will fall on April the 23rd

It’s a tradition at Buckingham Palace that the toilet roll in the Queen’s private bathroom is red throughout the month of December

The record TV audience for a programme shown on Christmas day was achieved in 1977. It was a yuletide special of ‘The Morecambe and Wise Show’ hosted by Noel Edmonds, and starred a young Margaret Thatcher blacked-up in a sketch as a stripper.
It was watched, in the UK alone, by 117 million people.

There is a National Union Of Elf-Baiters

RC 21-12-11