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• #1  aimee

  Now’s that a sweet, passive-unaggressive note!

  Dec 31, 2007 at 1:31 am   rating: +2  
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• #2  Crash

  Ya’….Puking….but “Happy”
  to drag our ass to work for you.
  “Happy” New Year !!

  Dec 31, 2007 at 1:33 am   rating: +2  
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• #3  park rose

  Well, I’m sure that coke must have had something to do with it.

  Dec 31, 2007 at 1:45 am   rating: +1  
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• #4  park rose

  Hey, WP - when you check in - I see you found your way to Robin’s blog!

  Dec 31, 2007 at 1:51 am   rating: 0  
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  • #4.1  WanderingPenguin

    Nah - that’s my crazy Uncle Frank. I’m much cuter!

    Dec 31, 2007 at 10:39 am   rating: +1  
     

  • #4.2  durian

    It does look as if crazy Uncle Frank is nursing his own hangover there! Must be waiting for Wilson’s to open.

    Jan 1, 2008 at 6:41 am   rating: 0  
     
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• #5  Crash

  I love how “HAPPY” has an underlined tone of “F- YOU”.
  

  Dec 31, 2007 at 2:10 am   rating: 0  
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  • #5.1  WanderingPenguin

    Hmm. Could be… but I took it as “happy” being a euphemism for “still 3 sheets to the wind” on New Year’s Day. As for me, I’m trying to figure out why only the guys at Wilson’s want you to have a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Did the “gals” have a particularly bad year? Or is it a gay bar?

    Oh, wait! Maybe that’s what they meant by “happy”!

    Dec 31, 2007 at 11:19 am   rating: +2  
     

  • #5.2  unholyghost2003

    WP that brings us back to HOW are they intending to “service” my hangover.

    Dec 31, 2007 at 11:25 am   rating: +5  
     

  • #5.3  WanderingPenguin

    Excellent point. We really do need the back story, don’t we?

    Dec 31, 2007 at 11:28 am   rating: 0  
     

  • #5.4  thatguy

    just a quick note, guy is a gender neutral noun:
    guy1 /ga?/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[gahy] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation noun, verb, guyed, guy·ing.
    –noun
    2. Usually, guys. Informal. persons of either sex; people: Could one of you guys help me with this?

    Dec 31, 2007 at 12:50 pm   rating: +1  
     

  • #5.5  anglophile

    Love the euphemism of the euphemism, WP!

    Dec 31, 2007 at 1:57 pm   rating: 0  
     

  • #5.6  WanderingPenguin

    Well, it can be gender neutral, yes. It usually isn’t, though. Guys and Dolls, guys and gals, The Lonely Guy, “It’s a guy thing: you wouldn’t understand”. On the gender neutral side: “Hey, you guuuyyyys!” (from The Electric Company). Hard to tell which way they meant it here, especially since I am not on top of Aussie colloquial usage as much as I should be.

    I am disappointed, though, that point #5.4 did not come with a link to m-w.com. That’s a fine PAN tradition that has gone missing recently.

    Dec 31, 2007 at 2:15 pm   rating: 0  
     

  • #5.7  Canthz_B

    Maybe Wilson’s is one of those male stripper night clubs.
    Women with hangovers tend to tip really well!

    Dec 31, 2007 at 2:46 pm   rating: +1  
     

  • #5.8  Crash

    However it is intended, I took it as F’-You because that’s what I would mean by “HAPPY” in that case .
    As for the gender question, I agree we need a back story, but yes, I wonder why only the “guy’s” at Wilsons are mentioned, somehow I don’t think it’s gender neutral but I’ve never herd of an all “guy” catering buisness before, unless “cater” is ment to mean something else here.
    Who knows though…. A back story would be helpfull

    Dec 31, 2007 at 2:55 pm   rating: 0  
     

  • #5.9  DrAstroZoom

    Regarding 5.7, I thought women went to strip clubs to see the hangovers, especially the tips!

    rimshot

    Dec 31, 2007 at 3:27 pm   rating: +4  
     

  • #5.10  Space Monkey

    They usually pin dollar bills to them.

    Dec 31, 2007 at 5:46 pm   rating: +1  
     

  • #5.11  Canthz_B

    I think that’s a far different party game Space Monkey!

    Dec 31, 2007 at 7:22 pm   rating: +1  
     

  • #5.12  SHARKFAN

    I doubt Wilson’s is a male stripper night club. Drunk women tend to tip much better than hungover women. If Wilson’s were a male strip club they’d definitely be open on New Year’s Eve.

    Jan 2, 2008 at 11:59 pm   rating: +1  
     
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• #6  Robin Claire

  LOVE THIS!
  At least they’re honest with the second one… heheheh

  Dec 31, 2007 at 2:20 am   rating: 0  
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• #7  SilverIris

  Any note that admits to being “happy” on the New Year is my kind of note. Particularly because “happy” is code for “fuck you, I will be asleep and and hungover and don’t you dare call me at home because I plan on taking those eight reindeer for a joy ride at midnight to ring in the new year and I do not want to teach you tennis at eight in the morning.” Only the wealthy can be passive aggressive like this!

  Dec 31, 2007 at 3:12 am   rating: +2  
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• #8  tanyetta

  i love it. brought a tear to my eye.

  Dec 31, 2007 at 3:18 am   rating: +1  
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• #9  Ralphy

  Well, 400 elves and s0me guy in a red suit,
  Maybe!
  8 raindeer–nope, sorry raindeer, I refuse service on Jan. 1st or any other day. And if you have a red nose, you’re really “outta here”.

  Dec 31, 2007 at 4:49 am   rating: +1  
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• #10  WickedLady

  Why is everything in caps, except for the word ‘of’?

  Dec 31, 2007 at 7:49 am   rating: 0  
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• #11  Jake

  “Happy” after a little hair of the dog.

  Dec 31, 2007 at 9:20 am   rating: +1  
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• #12  amy d

  Honesty *is* the best policy. Although if they really believe they will be catering for Santa, his elves & the reindeer, they may already be drunk.

  Dec 31, 2007 at 9:23 am   rating: +1  
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• #13  WanderingPenguin

  As Rudolph’s number 1 fan I am outraged that he isn’t being included in the catered affair. Enough already with the “we won’t let him play in any reindeer games”. It’s time Rudolph went medieval on their asses, I think.

  Dec 31, 2007 at 10:41 am   rating: +2  
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  • #13.1  pettsson

    how do you know he is excluded? is there 9 reindeers? then one is obviously excluded, but you can’t know it’s rudolf…
    or am i missing something now again?

    Feb 25, 2008 at 7:27 pm   rating: 0  
     
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• #14  WanderingPenguin

  …and since I want to avoid “mail” on the subject: what the hell is an “INCONVIENANCE”?

  I also like the fact that they left most of the punctuation out entirely but had no trouble adding superscript to the dates. They’ve made lazy writing into an art form!

  Dec 31, 2007 at 10:44 am   rating: 0  
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  • #14.1  secondsout

    I figured that he was already heavily intoxicated when trying to spell inconvenience. At first glance, I thought that “apologise” was a typo, until I noticed it was Australia. Damn you, unstandardized English!!

    Dec 31, 2007 at 3:04 pm   rating: 0  
     

  • #14.2  park rose

    Pretty standard where I come from, mate . I mean, typing something when you are already heavily intoxicated! Hic!

    You do have to give ‘him’ kudos, though. It meant he either took the effort to change the automatic dictionary on word, or ignored the glaring red spell check (on ‘apologise’). Probably the latter, looking at inconvenience.

    Dec 31, 2007 at 8:48 pm   rating: +1  
     
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• #15  unholyghost2003

  Word automatically adds superscript to dates.

  I assume this is a restaurant of some kind. At least I hope so, other wise I have some questions regarding HOW they intend to “service” my hangover ….

  Dec 31, 2007 at 11:17 am   rating: +1  
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  • #15.1  WanderingPenguin

    Too bad Word doesn’t automatically include a spellchecker, too. Oh, wait…. hmm….

    Dec 31, 2007 at 11:20 am   rating: 0  
     
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• #16  Southern Girl

  We would like to apologize in advance if you come in on New Year’s Day and our breath smells like a brewery.

  Dec 31, 2007 at 12:44 pm   rating: 0  
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• #17  Canthz_B

  Does this mean that Mrs. Claus was home alone at the North Pole for three days?

  HAPPY NEW YEAR PANOPHILES

  Dec 31, 2007 at 12:50 pm   rating: 0  
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• #18  DonkeyCock

  That Beer was fucken delicious!

  Dec 31, 2007 at 2:07 pm   rating: 0  
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  • #18.1  WickedLady

    And once again it’s time for someone to wear the unitard. Way to go, DC.

    Dec 31, 2007 at 8:41 pm   rating: 0  
     
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• #19  GhostWriter

  Santa does Christmas parties just like A. G. Edwards.
  The top 400 producers get a catered holiday extravaganza, and the thousands of other worker-bees get a tree ornament.

  Dec 31, 2007 at 2:36 pm   rating: +2  
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• #20  Space Monkey

  Hangovers and incontinence go hand in hand, no?

  Dec 31, 2007 at 5:24 pm   rating: 0  
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  • #20.1  park rose

    See note #3
    I think inconvienance is a contrivance for incontinence.

    Dec 31, 2007 at 8:52 pm   rating: +1  
     
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• #21  park rose

  Not that he is medieval, but then neither are the other guys.
  Damn! What happened? That was meant to nest after WP’s #13. Damn new-fangled machines…

  Dec 31, 2007 at 8:42 pm   rating: 0  
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• #22  Robin

  Back story: Wilson’s is just a little cafe on Bondi Road, near Bondi Beach in Sydney. They even left a table with milk and cookies out for Santa!

  Jan 1, 2008 at 1:44 am   rating: 0  
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  • #22.1  park rose

    Hey, Robin!
    Cheers for the info… that’s Santa taken care of, what did they leave for the 400 elves and the eight reindeer?

    The milk didn’t curdle in the heat?

    You have a great blog, btw. Seems like an awesome trip.

    Jan 1, 2008 at 2:42 am   rating: 0  
     
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• #23  Writerrejected

  It’s nice that Wilson’s is open on Jan 1. If I were an Aussie, I’d be so “happy” to get right over there for some greasy eggs, greasy home fries, and greasy coffee. I feel better just thinking about it.

  Jan 1, 2008 at 8:00 am   rating: 0  
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