A little off topic, but since you opened the door, as Perry Mason would say and Christmas is just around the corner:
Holiday Greetings to Everyone
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,
practiced with the most enjoyable traditions of religious persuasion or
secular practices of your choice with respect for the religious/secular
persuasions and/or traditions of others, or their choice not to practice
religious or secular traditions at all.
I also wish you a fiscally successful, personally fulfilling and medically
uncomplicated recognition of the onset of the new generally accepted calendar
year, but not without due respect for the calendars of choice of
other cultures whose contributions to society have helped make our country
great (not to imply that Namibia is necessarily greater than any other
country) and without regard to the race, creed, color, age, physical
ability, 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 wisher to actually implement any of the wishes for
her/himself or others and is void where prohibited by law, and is
revocable at the sole discretion of the wisher. 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 wisher.
Disclaimer: No trees were harmed in the sending of this message; however,
a significant number of electrons were slightly inconvenienced.
Apart from all that:
MERRY CHRISTMAS to all and all the best for the New Year !!
(Note that the gentleman who sent this to me and who I had the pleasure of knowing and working with for several years, spent some time in Namibia as a military pilot.)
