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Multiple Choice Christmas

Alert Reader Julie sent me this cute variation on a theme.


Christmas News Navigation:

Advice and Suggestions
for Christmas Letters

Best brag

Three illustrative snippets

Full-length examples

From me:
01 A practical joke
02 My grandparents die
03 English Tour
04 Barn swallows
05 Buying hubcaps
06 Group photos
07 Mr. Science
08 Backpacking, Middle English
09 Leukemia
10 Comfort Clothes
11 Marmots and Texas
12 Eagle, Turkey and Emu

From Alert Readers:
01 In the Foothills
02 Excess
03 Things unsaid
04 11 Kids
05 Multiple Choice
06 . . . bit my ear
07 Facts and Stats
08 Neiheisel Review
09 Family and Horses
10 Sing a Song
11 The Professional

Parodies of Christmas Letters:
Erma Bombeck & Martha Stewart
Around the World
Coping with DUI
Defining Pretentious
The 12 McQ's

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  1. Family
  2. Friend(s)
Well, here we are at the end of 2004, hoping our holiday greetings reach you before the holiday is over.

Rick and I are still
  1. married
  2. speaking
  3. breathing

For the most part, Rick is healthy and
  1. no longer flat on his back from a ruptured disk
  2. successfully avoided SARS on 4 trips to China this year
  3. hasn't fallen asleep at the wheel yet on his weekly 7 hour commute to and from Iowa

Julie is
  1. still employed part-time
  2. busy at the end of each week trying to make it look like she accomplished something before Rick arrives home Friday evening
  3. appreciating anti-depressants

Frankie is
  1. enjoying fourth grade
  2. into Lemony Snicket, playing volleyball, singing in the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music choir
  3. threatening to run off and join the circus

Looking ahead to 2005, we wish you
  1. the happiest of holidays
  2. a healthy and prosperous New Year

All our love to you,
Julie, Rick and Frankie

All of the above multiple choice answers are true, but Frankie hasn't yet threatened to join the circus. We expect that may happen when puberty kicks in.

This is one page of over two dozen devoted to Christmas news letters. The main Christmas News Letters page has links to more examples, plus some general guidelines and specific suggestions for writing Christmas news letters. If you have an example, either good or bad, that you'd like to share with the rest of the world, send it to me and I'll add it to these pages.

Visits since 11 November 1998.
I updated this page on 02 Dec 2006

This is the church I attend:
Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Stanislaus County
It's a denomination many people have never heard of. Most of us believe different religions are different paths up the same mountain. We welcome black and white, Hispanic and Hmong. That's almost universal for churches. We welcome gays and lesbians, too; that is a little less standard. We welcome people with different ideas about the nature of God. That usually confuses people in normal churches. We have Agnostics, Atheists and Deists. We have people who were (or are) Buddhists or Wiccans. We have people who started out Jewish, Catholic or Protestant. We manage to meet under the same roof every week to explore spiritual questions.