1st December 2003, 8:58 PM
I'm all for the "last a few weeks after" bit, but not the starting later bit! After all, it's best to have the stores full of Christmas cheer to help one during that whole month of constant shopping.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)