Ah, Christmas is coming, and good old Costa coffee are celebrating with some Little Moments of Festive Fun. How heart-warming. Little moments of festive fun, such as… the bloodily decapitated body of Father Christmas.
…Thanks, Costa. Merry Christmas to you too.
What about the poor old gingerbread man, having his feet thrust into Rudolph's sliced-in-half brain?
ReplyDeleteIt's the red syrup that REALLY makes it festive, don't you think? Perhaps the person responsible for this has been watching too much of the Headless Horseman, or maybe Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
ReplyDeleteGODREST YOU MERRY GENTLEMEN~!
ReplyDeleteSanta probably didn't allow them to replicate his image. He even said no to a head fashioned from stiffly-whipped cream.
ReplyDeleteBrilliant! Two blog posts in a week! You're spoiling us. Thank you Mr Finnemore, this has brightened my day! :D
ReplyDeletePerhaps it's a hidden stand against the over-commercialisation of Christmas. I hear that the police have called in Terry from the Fire Crew to be questioned.
ReplyDeleteOh dear.
ReplyDeleteThis reminds me of something that occured at a Christmas market I visited some years ago: They had this larger-than-life Santa doll which "climbed" a Christmas tree every full hour. The evening I was there something went terribly wrong with the construction - so Santa was, much to the dismay of all children present, more or less strangled and dangled, hung from his neck, from the tree ...
Quite a sight to behold - and quite a way to let your kids know that Christmas will be cancelled because Santa just ... erm ... died ...
Anyhow, yay for badverts - I really, really missed these kind of posts.
If you think Costa is bad, look at Starbucks. Every year my father gets ridiculously excited about the arrival of the Red Cups. It's almost Arthurian. Then, on the 27th of December, or thereabouts, the Red Cups go into hibernation for another year, and it breaks his heart. Very poor treatment of customers. Uncharacteristic from an otherwise quite over-enthusiastic marketing department, who labelled the Pumpkin Spice Latte- an odd juxtaposition of words if ever I saw one- with the slogan 'Passion. Devotion. Obsession.' I mean, please. It's a coffee. And anyway, it tastes awful.
ReplyDelete(This babbling, by the way, is all sparked by the trauma of seeing SANTA CLAUS'S HEAD CUT OFF. Seriously, did no one at Costa look at it and go, 'Hmm. Guys? You know this picture? Has anyone noticed...? I mean, it might need a bit of Photoshopping is all I'm saying. No? Fine.')
You mean you people DON'T celebrate the holidays by ritualistically drinking out of Santa's corpse? What a sad, sad world you live in ;)
ReplyDeleteMan, I'm never going to see Christmas, or Costa, in the same light again... Although what coffee and cannibalism has in common I have absolutely no blinking idea!
ReplyDeleteMerry Christmas to you all - I wish every one of you a planeful of otters! :)
why oh why did you have to point it out...thank you
ReplyDeleteW O W
ReplyDeleteMaybe it's a marketing ploy for the remake of 'Silent Night, Deadly Night'
Same goes for the poor little Snowman! Don't show to Arthur, it would break his heart :'(
ReplyDeleteIt's a ploy by the Coca Cola company. They want a new, hipper Santa, so they've partnered with Costa coffee in order to eliminate the Santa we all know, and to an extent, love.
ReplyDeleteAnyhooo. . .
Don't forget the nameless elf and Frosty there (Gingerbread man doesn't count, he's a cookie. :P). Poor little elf, he just wanted to make toys *coughbuthereallywantedtobeadentistcough* :) . . . Though, I s'pose if Frosty wasn't wearing his magical hat, it wouldn't have mattered much when he was decapitated, yes? Hmm. . .
That and the decapitated snowman too!
ReplyDeleteThat is actually beautiful.
ReplyDeleteI think I laughed a little harder at that than I should've... X-)
ReplyDeleteThinking of Christmas reminds me of another miss-heard carol that Arthur might have sung - together with the niece of a friend who told me this one. She wondered why only Half the Herald Angels had sung...
ReplyDeleteSay grande.
ReplyDeleteDear John Finnemore,
ReplyDeleteit is really a pleasure to have you back in such intense frequency. Don't spoil us!
I have been meaning to ask this for a long time - what happened to Pete Seeger's hammer (JFSP, last recording)?
As for the rest, I am as everyone else, constantly checking the BBC website for Cabin Pressure tickets. I am also very happy that the recording will only take place next year...as I could not bear (!) my luck to attend more than one John Finnemore-event per year.
Anyway thank you for being back. Hooray!
I don't know why you always insist you can't sing, that was lovely on I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue
ReplyDeleteThis is terrible. Hell, I live in Southern California and I still haven't seen anything that bad.
ReplyDeleteYou were great on Clue - hope they ask you back!
I am worried about how traumatised Arthur is going to be by this.
ReplyDeleteO_O
ReplyDeleteOh, good Lord. Are they all decapitated?
Ahhhhh! Costa hot chocolate!
ReplyDeleteIf you want a good one, go to the actual cafe. The petrol station vending machines just put powdered milk in, with chocolate dusting.
It does look pretty disgusting as if you are looking at the mashed up brain of Santa.....
ReplyDeleteStudents tell me the idea is that, as you're drinking from these cups, your head becomes the head of the figure. Although Father Christmas did look a bit odd as a teenage girl...
ReplyDeleteDeck the halls with Martin's brolly!
ReplyDeleteCZime - I thought everyone knew, it's "Get dressed you merry gentlemen"...doh! ;-)
ReplyDeleteI think I cracked a rib laughing. The strange part is I probably wouldn't have noticed Santa's gruesome injury (ok, remains) until you pointed it out.
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Oh dear. Also looks like there's a decapitated gingerbread man with an entire, small, other gingerbread man as a hurried replacement for a head. Urg.
ReplyDeleteOnce, someone misheard 'most highly favoured lady' in the carol Gabriel's Message as 'most highly flavoured gravy'... Another one for Arthur?
ReplyDeleteWe wish you a plane of otters, We wish you a plane of otters, We wish you a plane of otters And a nappy-filled ear!
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