The best of holidays to the best group of friends I know. Thanks for all you do to support the club, its members and the sport.

Since Christmas is the time of year for "goodwill towards men" I offer up this couple of Christmas "presents" ... sincere and cynical ... for your viewing/reading pleasure.

First, a little video:

Or caroling with Achmed the Dead Terrorist:

Next, a list of how to say "Merry Christmas" in 113 languages:

• Afrikaans: Gesëende Kersfees
• Afrikander: Een Plesierige Kerfees
• African/Eritrean/Tigrinja: Rehus-Beal-Ledeats
• Albanian: Gezur Krislinjden
• Arabic: Idah Saidan Wa Sanah Jadidah
• Argentine: Feliz Navidad
• Armenian: Shenoraavor Nor Dari yev Pari Gaghand
• Azeri: Tezze Iliniz Yahsi Olsun
• Bahasa Malaysia: Selamat Hari Natal
• Basque: Zorionak eta Urte Berri On!
• Bengali: Shuvo Naba Barsha
• Bohemian: Vesele Vanoce
• Brazilian: Boas Festas e Feliz Ano Novo
• Breton: Nedeleg laouen na bloavezh mat
• Bulgarian: Tchestita Koleda; Tchestito Rojdestvo Hristovo
• Catalan: Bon Nadal i un Bon Any Nou!
• Chile: Feliz Navidad
• Chinese: (Cantonese) Gun Tso Sun Tan'Gung Haw Sun
• Chinese: (Mandarin) Kung His Hsin Nien bing Chu Shen Tan
• Choctaw: Yukpa, Nitak Hollo Chito
• Columbia: Feliz Navidad y Próspero Año Nuevo
• Cornish: Nadelik looan na looan blethen noweth
• Corsian: Pace e salute
• Crazanian: Rot Yikji Dol La Roo
• Cree: Mitho Makosi Kesikansi
• Croatian: Sretan Bozic
• Czech: Prejeme Vam Vesele Vanoce a stastny Novy Rok
• Danish: Glædelig Jul
• Duri: Christmas-e- Shoma Mobarak
• Dutch: Vrolijk Kerstfeest en een Gelukkig Nieuwjaar! or Zalig Kerstfeast
• English: Merry Christmas
• Eskimo: (inupik) Jutdlime pivdluarit ukiortame pivdluaritlo!
• Esperanto: Gajan Kristnaskon
• Estonian: Ruumsaid juulup|hi
• Faeroese: Gledhilig jol og eydnurikt nyggjar!
• Farsi: Cristmas-e-shoma mobarak bashad
• Finnish: Hyvaa joulua
• Flemish: Zalig Kerstfeest en Gelukkig nieuw jaar
• French: Joyeux Noel
• Frisian: Noflike Krystdagen en in protte Lok en Seine yn it Nije Jier!
• Galician: Bo Nada
• Gaelic: Nollaig chridheil agus Bliadhna mhath ùr!
• German: Froehliche Weihnachten
• Greek: Kala Christouyenna!
• Hausa: Barka da Kirsimatikuma Barka da Sabuwar Shekara!
• Hawaiian: Mele Kalikimaka
• Hebrew: Mo'adim Lesimkha. Chena tova
• Hindi: Shub Naya Baras
• Hausa: Barka da Kirsimatikuma Barka da Sabuwar Shekara!
• Hawaian: Mele Kalikimaka ame Hauoli Makahiki Hou!
• Hungarian: Kellemes Karacsonyi unnepeket
• Icelandic: Gledileg Jol
• Indonesian: Selamat Hari Natal
• Iraqi: Idah Saidan Wa Sanah Jadidah
• Irish: Nollaig Shona Dhuit or Nodlaig mhaith chugnat
• Iroquois: Ojenyunyat Sungwiyadeson honungradon nagwutut. Ojenyunyat osrasay.
• Italian: Buone Feste Natalizie
• Japanese: Shinnen omedeto. Kurisumasu Omedeto
• Jiberish: Mithag Crithagsigathmithags
• Korean: Sung Tan Chuk Ha
• Latin: Natale hilare et Annum Faustum!
• Latvian: Prieci'gus Ziemsve'tkus un Laimi'gu Jauno Gadu!
• Lausitzian: Wjesole hody a strowe nowe leto
• Lettish: Priecigus Ziemassvetkus
• Lithuanian: Linksmu Kaledu
• Low Saxon: Heughliche Winachten un 'n moi Nijaar
• Macedonian: Sreken Bozhik
• Maltese: IL-Milied It-tajjeb
• Manx: Nollick ghennal as blein vie noa
• Maori: Meri Kirihimete
• Marathi: Shub Naya Varsh
• Navajo: Merry Keshmish
• Norwegian: God Jul or Gledelig Jul
• Occitan: Pulit nadal e bona annado
• Papiamento: Bon Pasco
• Papua New Guinea: Bikpela hamamas blong dispela Krismas na Nupela yia i go long yu
• Pennsylvania German: En frehlicher Grischtdaag un en hallich Nei Yaahr!
• Peru: Feliz Navidad y un Venturoso Año Nuevo
• Philipines: Maligayan Pasko!
• Polish: Wesolych Swiat Bozego Narodzenia or Boze Narodzenie
• Portuguese: Feliz Natal
• Pushto: Christmas Aao Ne-way Kaal Mo Mobarak Sha
• Rapa-Nui (Easter Island): Mata-Ki-Te-Rangi. Te-Pito-O-Te-Henua
• Rhetian: Bellas festas da nadal e bun onn
• Romanche (sursilvan dialect): Legreivlas fiastas da Nadal e bien niev onn!
• Rumanian: Sarbatori vesele
• Russian: Pozdrevlyayu s prazdnikom Rozhdestva is Novim Godom
• Sami: Buorrit Juovllat
• Samoan: La Maunia Le Kilisimasi Ma Le Tausaga Fou
• Sardinian: Bonu nadale e prosperu annu nou
• Serbian: Hristos se rodi
• Slovakian: Sretan Bozic or Vesele vianoce
• Sami: Buorrit Juovllat
• Samoan: La Maunia Le Kilisimasi Ma Le Tausaga Fou
• Scots Gaelic: Nollaig chridheil huibh
• Serb-Croatian: Sretam Bozic. Vesela Nova Godina
• Serbian: Hristos se rodi.
• Singhalese: Subha nath thalak Vewa. Subha Aluth Awrudhak Vewa
• Slovak: Vesele Vianoce. A stastlivy Novy Rok
• Slovene: Vesele Bozicne. Screcno Novo Leto
• Spanish: Feliz Navidad
• Swedish: God Jul and (Och) Ett Gott Nytt År
• Tagalog: Maligayamg Pasko. Masaganang Bagong Taon
• Tami: Nathar Puthu Varuda Valthukkal
• Trukeese: (Micronesian) Neekiriisimas annim oo iyer seefe feyiyeech!
• Thai: Sawadee Pee Mai
• Turkish: Noeliniz Ve Yeni Yiliniz Kutlu Olsun
• Ukrainian: Srozhdestvom Kristovym
• Urdu: Naya Saal Mubarak Ho
• Vietnamese: Chung Mung Giang Sinh
• Welsh: Nadolig Llawen
• Yugoslavian: Cestitamo Bozic
• Yoruba: E ku odun, e ku iye'dun!

Merry Christmas.

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