http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=52143 The NewsBiscuit Community en-US Mon, 20 May 2013 18:58:48 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/search.php http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=52143#post-150414 Sat, 24 Nov 2012 09:51:09 +0000 riesler 150414@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Like the idea of a couple of enormous baubles. They would also look good on the Gherkin.</p> <p>A plea to someone cleverer than me to photoshop something... </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=52143#post-150411 Sat, 24 Nov 2012 09:13:31 +0000 Boutros 150411@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Thanks smh123. But no stars from you? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=52143#post-150294 Fri, 23 Nov 2012 19:42:32 +0000 Boutros 150294@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Thank you pinxit. I almost resorted to giving myself some Christmassy 5-pointed stars, as I like it too. But I didn't (on this occasion). </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=52143#post-150224 Fri, 23 Nov 2012 13:25:22 +0000 pinxit 150224@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I'm liking the cut of this one's jib. Stars. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=52143#post-150212 Fri, 23 Nov 2012 11:59:45 +0000 Boutros 150212@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>&lt;bit of an edit&gt;</p> <p>Mayor Boris Johnson has written to the King of Norway telling him not to bother with sending a tree for Trafalgar Square this year "now we've got the Shard".</p> <p>"I don't want to sound ungrateful but frankly we've quite enough Christmas trees of our own and if we wanted one for the Square we could probably nip out and get one from a Berni Inn car park any Saturday up til Christmas," the Mayor writes.</p> <p>"On the other hand, the mighty Shard is jolly unique and visible from pretty much everywhere across London, except, outlandishly, when you're standing next to it, as I found out to my cost the other day when I asked a taxi driver to ruddy well take me there, which he proceeded to do, and charged me a fiver just for getting in one side and climbing out the other," continues the letter to the Scandinavian Monarch.</p> <p>"This year we're going to hang some great big, I mean giant, enormous great baubles from the Shard, hey presto there you go, Christmas wrapped up, as they say, right across the Capital. I wish we hadn't bothered tinselling up Regent Street now. You're welcome to pop over and take a gander, Your Majesty, more or less whenever you wish - but if you've got a telescope you can probably see it from Oslo."</p> <p>The letter ends, "I know you still feel bad about the war and all of that, so if you do want to keep on showing some eternal gratitude year after year, could we possibly have a 90ft fairy to go on top? Could you manage that? Send it flat-packed if you like. Oh no, that's the Swedes isn't it." </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=52143#post-150103 Thu, 22 Nov 2012 19:37:14 +0000 Boutros 150103@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Mayor Boris Johnson has written to the King of Norway telling him not to bother with sending a tree for Trafalgar Square this year "now we've got the Shard". </p> <p>"I don't want to sound ungrateful but frankly we've quite enough Christmas trees of our own and if we wanted one for the Square we could probably nip out and get one from a Berni Inn car park any Saturday up til Christmas," the Mayor writes.</p> <p>"On the other hand, the mighty Shard is jolly unique and visible from pretty much everywhere across London, except, outlandishly, when you're standing next to it, as I found out to my cost the other day when I asked a taxi driver to ruddy well take me there, which he proceeded to do," continues the letter to the Scandinavian Monarch.</p> <p>"This year we're going to hang some great big, I mean giant, enormous great baubles from it, hey presto there you go, Christmas wrapped up, as they say, right across the Capital." </p> <p>The letter ends, "I know you still feel bad about the war and all of that, so if you do want to keep on showing some eternal gratitude year after year, could we possibly have a 90ft fairy to go on top? Could you manage that? Send it flat-packed if you like. Oh no, that's the Swedish."</p> <p>"You're welcome to pop over and take a gander, whenever you wish - but if you've got a telescope you can probably see it from Oslo." </p>