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- BY JAMES L. MATHEWS
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- Well, I don't believe it. It's Christmas already and here I am writing a
- Chit Chat for the special Christmas issue of POWER. I don't know, I used to
- think that Christmas was great; all those presents, all that food, all those
- presents again, more food, some more presents again and then some more food,
- some T.V, no school, more presents, more food. It was blissful! Now
- though, as I've grown older, I've been expected to buy better and better
- presents. Can't they see that I'm a pennyless peasant?! It is what
- Christmas is all about nowadays; Money. But hey, I shouldn't be getting us
- all down in our Christmas issue. We all know that there is something
- special about Christmas and whether you hate Christmas or not, things always
- slightly brighten up and get a bit happier (although your bank balance
- doesn't!). Parents must love it because they can blackmail their kids with
- it. I remember when I was in the single figure years and if I didn't go to
- bed at a certain time, Father Christmas wouldn't come. If I didn't tidy my
- room, Father Christmas wouldn't come. If I wasn't a good boy, Father
- Christmas wouldn't come. I could go on forever. I was constantly
- blackmailed. If I didn't do a certain thing, then I would get a bag of
- soot. It got worse the nearer to Christmas it got until it got so bad that
- I was licking my mum and dad's shoes clean!!! It carried on for a while
- AFTER Christmas as well, telling me how, if I didn't go outside and cut the
- grass with my teeth, old Santa babes wouldn't come next year (okay, so a bit
- of an exaggeration!).
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- It is a great time of the year though although Christmas seems to start
- earlier and earlier every year doesn't it? It seems that it's about
- September and they ALREADY have the Christmas cards in and the wrapping
- paper. For God's sake...I thought Christmas was in December....Well, it is
- in Britain anyway. Just think, this is the special Christmas issue, but I
- have readers all over the world. In some places, it's not chirstmas for
- another month or two. They're probably wondering why the hell I'm doing it
- NOW!
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- Christmas...Mmmm.....It's around this time, towards the end of the year when
- the most things happen. We've got Halloween, then about 4 days later, we've
- got Bonfire Night and then just a month or so on, we've got Christmas!!!
- Then again, there seems to be more and more special events appearing all the
- time. On top of the above, we've got New Year, Boxing Day, Father's day,
- Mother's day, Valentines day and now bloody Grandparents day and a hell of a
- lot more. It won't be long until we have, 'Long lost brother of friends,
- sisters, fathers day'!!! There's loads of special weeks as well. National
- cats week, no smoking week, no drinking week. Another list that could go on
- forever!!! It'll get so bad that because there's only 52 weeks a year, you
- will have weeks shared!!! Nobody cares about these special weeks anyway.
- Who actually stops smoking during No Smoking Week? Even if they do, it's
- only for the week and then they start up again. Pointless really!
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- It's all a bit of fun though and Christmas must be the biggest event of the
- year for the whole world. Everyone celebrates it and everyone knows about
- it and whether some celebrate it on different dates to us, wherever you go,
- you're bound to see decorations and christmassy things all over the world at
- one point or another.
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- Well, I've chitted and chatted enough I think. Have a great Christmas and
- remember that POWER will be here to comfort you on the 1st January 1994 for
- the special 12th issue which will not only celebrate New Years Day (because
- that's the day it will be released!) but also the first birthday of POWER.
- It's going to be a massive four disk issue so I need all your articles, P.D
- and so on. For more information, read the 'ISSUE 12' article on this disk.
- Meanwhile, HAPPY CHRISTMAS once again!
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