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Things I Love About Crimbo...

DangerMouse

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1. The fact it's perfectly acceptable to be half cut on Gin at any time of the day :cool:

2. The pre-breakfast, chocolate breakfast... I've had After Eights before my bacon butties for the past week almost! Okay, okay, I know the 'after eight' refers to 8pm - as in after 'dinner' mints - but who cares, it's Crimbo :p

3. The sound of my parents sat together laughing at yet another re-run of a Morcombe and Wise Christmas Special - great sound and my mum looks magical when she laughs :lol:

4. Playing board games.

5. Boiled gammon - yummy yummy :D

What are your fave things about this festive holiday?
 
Great thread!

The fact that it's perfectly acceptable to declare at 4 in the afternoon that you are going to have a Baileys over ice. And polish off the entire bottle in a couple of days.

Eating Terry's Chocolate Orange for breakfast.

Champagne cocktails.

Christmas trees.

Tins of Quality Street/Celebrations/Roses in every office you go into.

Being taken to lunch and invited to dinner by happy customers.

Watching old films on the tv and feeling enchanted by the olde worlde-ness of it all rather than irritated by the constant re-runs.

This year, Tennant on every tv programme that's being broadcast between 23rd December and 2nd January.

Buying a new party dress and accessories for New Year's Eve.
 
That people have taken the word Crimbo to their hearts so nicely. :bolian:

That, and the good old TV specials, the office Crimbo parties, the festive music that only plays once a year, the snow (when it doesn't affect my driving) and the food (good old Quality Street, Terry's Chocolate Oranges and Toblerone).

Crimbo, glorious Crimbo...
WillsBauble said:
This year, Tennant on every tv programme that's being broadcast between 23rd December and 2nd January.
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WillsBauble said:
Eating Terry's Chocolate Orange for breakfast.
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My son agrees with this being the best part of Christmas. He doesn't eat chocolate, but he's always asking for cookies for breakfast and I always say no, so in his Santa sack this Christmas I put in a tub of cookies. This is all he's talked about since "I had cookies in my Santa sack, for breakfast!"
 
DangerMouse said:
1. The fact it's perfectly acceptable to be half cut on Gin at any time of the day :cool:

2. The pre-breakfast, chocolate breakfast... I've had After Eights before my bacon butties for the past week almost! Okay, okay, I know the 'after eight' refers to 8pm - as in after 'dinner' mints - but who cares, it's Crimbo :p

3. The sound of my parents sat together laughing at yet another re-run of a Morcombe and Wise Christmas Special - great sound and my mum looks magical when she laughs :lol:

4. Playing board games.

5. Boiled gammon - yummy yummy :D

What are your fave things about this festive holiday?
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Crimbo= Christmas? Is this new?
 
I was gonna mention Do Who Christmas Specials, but I'm so heartbroken over Tennant leaving that it's difficult to talk about right now :(

Fantastic tho!!!!!! :D

Can't wait till the final episode.
 
DangerMouse said:
I was gonna mention Do Who Christmas Specials, but I'm so heartbroken over Tennant leaving that it's difficult to talk about right now :(

Fantastic tho!!!!!! :D

Can't wait till the final episode.
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Given that Tennant's pretty much everywhere on TV these days, I think it would be very hard to miss him. ;) He'll be reading the news next.
 
We went through all this last year when I called it Crimbo. :rolleyes:

Christmas has and always shall be called Crimbo. It gets called Crimbo by Brits on this here BBS every single year, why do some people who have been here for years still ask if it's new? or what it means? :rolleyes:
 
I Am Santa said:
We went through all this last year when I called it Crimbo. :rolleyes:

Christmas has and always shall be called Crimbo. It gets called Crimbo by Brits on this here BBS every single year, why do some people who have been here for years still ask if it's new? or what it means? :rolleyes:
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If I recall correctly, that same discussion also discussed the nature of Quality Street chocolates, and eventually came to the conclusion that they don't really fall under any particular class according to the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971, and have very little "street" value. ;) Well, with the exception of the green triangles of course. :D

That was a great thread. :bolian:
 
Beer
Food
TOS on CBS action
Fresh Prince of Bel Air and Star Trek on at mid day
Watching movies like Avatar
Presents
Partying
 
Well back in the 80's I never heard the word "Crimbo" used to describe the Holiday Season in the UK, so it's use must have arisen since that time.. I do remember an Aussie calling it "Crissy" so I guess it's just normal language progression...
 
Wikitionary sez: The OED cites the first printed usage to 1928. They credit John Lennon's 1963 usage in a Beatles' Fan Club Christmas single as the first recorded use of the variant form Crimble.
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That's where I heard it first.

The Beatles, not 1928.
 
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