Greetings

[Fred Hueston]

I wanted to send everyone a holiday greeting, but it is so difficult in today's world to know exactly what to say without offending someone. So I met with my legal adviser yesterday, and on his 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 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 generally accepted calendar year 2007, 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 the United States 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.
Merry Everything and Happy Always!
Fred

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Snowmen Fall from Heaven Unassembled
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"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but
most of them pick themselves up and hurry
off as if nothing happened."
--- Winston Churchill
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"I know God will not give me anything I can't
handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me
so much." --- Mother Teresa
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No trees were destroyed by sending this
message. However, a significant number
of electrons were sorely inconvenienced.
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