
I received this today – and it amused me no end!:
I wanted to send some sort of holiday greeting to all my friends, but it is difficult in today’s world to know exactly what to say without offending someone. So I met with my lawyer yesterday, and on her advice I wish to say the following:
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 summer solstice holiday practised 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 practise religious or secular traditions at all.
I also wish you a fiscally successful, personally fulfilling and medically uncomplicated recognition of the onset of the generally accepted calendar year 2012, but not without due respect for the calendar of choice of other cultures whose contributions to society have helped make our country great (not to imply that Australia is necessarily greater than any other country) and without regard to the race, creed, colour, 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/him or others and is void where prohibited by law, and is revocable at the sole discretion of the wisher. The 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 new wish at the sole discretion of the wisher.
Best Regards (without prejudice)
Name withheld (Privacy Act).
May you all enjoy Christmas exactly (and as unpolitically correct) as you wish. 🙂
Boadicea
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Have a good Christmas, Boadicea!
Hee hee. All the best Boadicea and to the Bear too.
OZ
All the best to oner and all. Don’t forget to eat and drink as much as you can, especially the cholesterol and/or alcohol laden comestibles and don’t forget to burn the Christmas tree on a bonfire when it is all over!
Merry Christmas, everybody.
Boadicea, I hope you and Ursa Major have a superb Christmas and New Year. My thanks for your forbearance over the last one.
Happy Christmas to you and yours, Boa.
Thanks and all the best!
I strongly object to the inclusion of the following language in your greeting
“….celebration of the summer solstice holiday”
It shows a biased, southern hemispheric view of the world and a total lack of consideration for those situated where the summer solstice is but a distant memory.
My attorney will be in contact with you shortly with appropriate modifications.
In the meantime, Have the very best Christmas.
Oh dear, you are quite right, LW, I should have consulted Mr Mackie before commenting. 😉