Neil Gendzwill
December 19th, 2003, 07:34 AM
In accordance with the tenor of the season, you are hereby wished a Merry Christmas*
* Disclosure: this wish does not carry with it, expressly or by implication, any intention on the part of the wisher to take any action, or refrain from taking any action, which might increase the likelihood of the wishee actually experiencing a merry Christmas. The wisher is in fact completely indifferent to the quality of Christmas experienced by the wishee, and makes this statement not in the true sense of wishing the wishee any particular Christmas experience but only as a matter of social convention. No emotional content, therefore, should be read into this wish.
* Disclosure: this wish does not carry with it, expressly or by implication, any intention on the part of the wisher to take any action, or refrain from taking any action, which might increase the likelihood of the wishee actually experiencing a merry Christmas. The wisher is in fact completely indifferent to the quality of Christmas experienced by the wishee, and makes this statement not in the true sense of wishing the wishee any particular Christmas experience but only as a matter of social convention. No emotional content, therefore, should be read into this wish.