It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas

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Take a line from a song that you love or connect with. Turn that line into the title of your post.

I love Christmas songs – cheesy, soppy, cheerful, sacred: I love them all.  But I’m guessing you know that by now.

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Write a summary of the book you’ve always wanted to write for the back cover of its dust jacket.

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See the agony and the ecstasy of the tough decisions that must be made so that bloggers are never left unprompted, forcing them to think for themselves.  

Relive the prompters’ early attempts: Puppies or kittens in a sack on the railway track?

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Prompt 12 (detail) (Photo credit: miscellaneaarts)

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What is a life well lived to you?

Plenty of love, laughter, food and enough money left when all the bills are paid to buy a box of Maltesers.  

Oh, and dafter prompts; they have all been too sensible lately.

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Picture the one person in the world you really wish were reading your blog. Write her or him a letter.

Dear WordPress Prompter,

2011 was your year.  You gave us many ridiculous writing prompts which allowed me to make fun of you for twelve solid months.

This year’s crop is far too sensible and I’m having trouble poking fun at you.

Can you fix it?

Love Tilly x

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Joke 634

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• The one thing women don’t want to find in their stockings on Christmas morning is their husband.
  – Joan Rivers
• Once again, we come to the holiday season – a deeply religious time that each of us observes, in his own way, by going to the mall of his choice.
  – Dave Barry
• Christmas, here again. Let us raise a loving cup: Peace on earth, goodwill to men, and make them do the washing up.
  – Wendy Cope
• There is a remarkable breakdown of taste and intelligence at Christmastime. Mature, responsible grown men wear neckties made of holly leaves and drink alcoholic beverages with raw egg yolks and cottage cheese in them.
  – P.J. O’Rourke
• I once bought my kids a set of batteries for Christmas with a note on it saying “Toys not included”.
  – Bernard Manning
• That’s the true spirit of Christmas: people being helped by people other than me.
  – Jerry Seinfeld

These came from the Huffington Post.