'TIS NOT THE SEASON TO BE OLLIE -- Merry Christmas! .

[Whoops!]

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This is the greatest newspaper Christmas headline ever
written -- and every blessed word is true.
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An electrician -- first name Oliver -- was blown to bits
in an explosion that occurred in a hallway of an apartment building in
a small Canadian town two days before Christmas many years ago..
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Earlier that week, the publisher had instructed the editors
to use "Christmas-y" expressions in all headlines, if at all
possible, "because our readers REALLY love Christmas."
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John Robertson, a young deskman, remembered it well
and certainly obliged when he handled the story about
the horrible explosion, then wrote this fitting headline that
appeared on the newspaper's front page in its Christmas Eve edition:
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< DECK THE HALLS WITH BALLS OF OLLIE
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Robertson was eventually fired by the newspaper
but NOT for writing the greatest "Christmas-y " headline
of all time. He later went on to become one of Canada's
best and most respected sports columnists.
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Merry Christmas, John Robertson, wherever you are.
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< -- Ed Conrad
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MERRY CHRISTMAS (in more ways than one)
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Afrikaans: Geseënde Kersfees
Afrikander: Een Plesierige Kerfees
African/ Eritrean/ Tigrinja: Rehus-Beal-Ledeats
Albanian:Gezur Krislinjden
Arabic: Milad Majid
Argentine: Feliz Navidad
Armenian: Shenoraavor Nor Dari yev Pari Gaghand
Azeri: Tezze Iliniz Yahsi Olsun
Bahasa Malaysia: Selamat Hari Natal
Basque: Zorionak eta Urte Berri On!
Bengali: Shuvo Naba Barsha
Bohemian: Vesele Vanoce
Bosnian: (BOSANSKI) Cestit Bozic i Sretna Nova godina
Brazilian: Feliz Natal
Breton: Nedeleg laouen na bloavezh mat
Bulgarian: Tchestita Koleda; Tchestito Rojdestvo Hristovo
Catalan: Bon Nadal i un Bon Any Nou!
Chile: Feliz Navidad
Chinese: (Cantonese) Gun Tso Sun Tan'Gung Haw Sun
Chinese: (Mandarin) Kung His Hsin Nien bing Chu Shen Tan
Choctaw: Yukpa, Nitak Hollo Chito
Columbia: Feliz Navidad y Próspero Año Nuevo
Cornish: Nadelik looan na looan blethen noweth
Corsian: Pace e salute
Crazanian: Rot Yikji Dol La Roo
Cree: Mitho Makosi Kesikansi
Croatian: Sretan Bozic
Czech: Prejeme Vam Vesele Vanoce a stastny Novy Rok
Danish: Glædelig Jul
Duri: Christmas-e- Shoma Mobarak
Dutch: Vrolijk Kerstfeest en een Gelukkig Nieuwjaar! or Zalig
Kerstfeast
English: Merry Christmas
Eskimo: (inupik) Jutdlime pivdluarit ukiortame pivdluaritlo!
Esperanto: Gajan Kristnaskon
Estonian: Rõõmsaid Jõulupühi
Ethiopian: (Amharic) Melkin Yelidet Beaal
Faeroese: Gledhilig jol og eydnurikt nyggjar!
Farsi: Cristmas-e-shoma mobarak bashad
Finnish: Hyvaa joulua
Flemish: Zalig Kerstfeest en Gelukkig nieuw jaar
French: Joyeux Noel
Frisian: Noflike Krystdagen en in protte Lok en Seine yn it Nije
Jier!
Galician: Bo Nada
Gaelic: Nollaig chridheil agus Bliadhna mhath ùr!
German: Fröhliche Weihnachten
Greek: Kala Christouyenna!
Haiti: (Creole) Jwaye Nowel or to Jesus Edo Bri'cho o Rish D'Shato
Brichto
Hausa: Barka da Kirsimatikuma Barka da Sabuwar Shekara!
Hawaiian: Mele Kalikimaka
Hebrew: Mo'adim Lesimkha. Chena tova
Hindi: Shub Naya Baras (good New Year not Merry Christmas)
Hungarian: Kellemes Karacsonyi unnepeket
Icelandic: Gledileg Jol
Indonesian: Selamat Hari Natal
Iraqi: Idah Saidan Wa Sanah Jadidah
Irish: Nollaig Shona Dhuit, or Nodlaig mhaith chugnat
Iroquois: Ojenyunyat Sungwiyadeson honungradon nagwutut. Ojenyunyat
osrasay.
Italian: Buone Feste Natalizie
Japanese: Shinnen omedeto. Kurisumasu Omedeto
Jiberish: Mithag Crithagsigathmithags
Korean: Sung Tan Chuk Ha
Lao: souksan van Christmas
Latin: Natale hilare et Annum Faustum!
Latvian: Prieci'gus Ziemsve'tkus un Laimi'gu Jauno Gadu!
Lausitzian:Wjesole hody a strowe nowe leto
Lettish: Priecigus Ziemassvetkus
Lithuanian: Linksmu Kaledu
Low Saxon: Heughliche Winachten un 'n moi Nijaar
Luxembourgish: Schèine Chreschtdaag an e gudde Rutsch
Macedonian: Sreken Bozhik
Maltese: IL-Milied It-tajjeb
Manx: Nollick ghennal as blein vie noa
Maori: Meri Kirihimete
Marathi: Shub Naya Varsh (good New Year not Merry Christmas)
Navajo: Merry Keshmish
Norwegian: God Jul, or Gledelig Jul
Occitan: Pulit nadal e bona annado
Papiamento: Bon Pasco
Papua New Guinea: Bikpela hamamas blong dispela Krismas na Nupela yia
i go long yu
Pennsylvania German: En frehlicher Grischtdaag un en hallich Nei
Yaahr!
Peru: Feliz Navidad y un Venturoso Año Nuevo
Philippines: Maligayang Pasko!
Polish: Wesolych Swiat Bozego Narodzenia or Boze Narodzenie
Portuguese:Feliz Natal
Pushto: Christmas Aao Ne-way Kaal Mo Mobarak Sha
Rapa-Nui (Easter Island): Mata-Ki-Te-Rangi. Te-Pito-O-Te-Henua
Rhetian: Bellas festas da nadal e bun onn
Romanche: (sursilvan dialect): Legreivlas fiastas da Nadal e bien
niev
onn!
Rumanian: Sarbatori vesele or Craciun fericit
Russian: Pozdrevlyayu s prazdnikom Rozhdestva is Novim Godom
Sami: Buorrit Juovllat
Samoan: La Maunia Le Kilisimasi Ma Le Tausaga Fou
Sardinian: Bonu nadale e prosperu annu nou
Scots Gaelic: Nollaig chridheil huibh
Serbian: Hristos se rodi.
Singhalese: Subha nath thalak Vewa. Subha Aluth Awrudhak Vewa
Slovak: Vesele Vianoce. A stastlivy Novy Rok
Slovene: Vesele Bozicne Praznike Srecno Novo Leto or Vesel Bozic in
srecno Novo leto
Spanish: Feliz Navidad
Swedish: God Jul and (Och) Ett Gott Nytt År
Tagalog: Maligayamg Pasko. Masaganang Bagong Taon
Tamil: (Tamizh) Nathar Puthu Varuda Valthukkal (good New Year not
Merry Christmas)
Trukeese: (Micronesian) Neekiriisimas annim oo iyer seefe feyiyeech!
Thai: Sawadee Pee Mai or souksan wan Christmas
Turkish: Noeliniz Ve Yeni Yiliniz Kutlu Olsun
Ukrainian: Srozhdestvom Kristovym or Z RIZDVOM HRYSTOVYM
Urdu: Naya Saal Mubarak Ho (good New Year not Merry Christmas)
Vietnamese: Chuc Mung Giang Sinh
Welsh: Nadolig Llawen
Yoruba: E ku odun, e ku iye'dun!

[Devils Advocaat]

On 24 Dec, 14:05, "Whoops!" <amerikan-idle...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> <
> This is the greatest newspaper Christmas headline ever
> written -- and every blessed word is true.
> <
> An electrician -- first name Oliver -- was blown to bits
> in an explosion that occurred in a hallway of an apartment building in
> a small Canadian town two days before Christmas many years ago..
> <
> Earlier that week, the publisher had instructed the editors
> to use "Christmas-y" expressions in all headlines, if at all
> possible, "because our readers REALLY love Christmas."
> <
> John Robertson, a young deskman, remembered it well
> and certainly obliged  when he handled the story about
> the horrible explosion, then wrote this fitting headline that
> appeared on the newspaper's front page in its Christmas Eve edition:
> <
> <        DECK THE HALLS WITH BALLS OF OLLIE
> <
> Robertson was eventually fired by the newspaper
> but NOT for writing the greatest "Christmas-y " headline
> of all time. He later went on to become one of Canada's
> best and most respected sports columnists.
> <
> Merry Christmas, John Robertson, wherever you are.
> <
> <                                                      -- Ed Conrad

Then it is curious how a simple Google search fails to bring up
anything other than your multitudinous postings to newsgroups
everywhere.

No mention of Oliver the electrician, or the name of the Canadian
town, or how many other people were hurt, or how much damage was done
to the apartment building in question.

If this was a rat, I would call it a skunk.

But I suspect it is an urban myth.

[Free Lunch]

On Thu, 24 Dec 2009 10:26:30 -0800 (PST), Devils Advocaat
<mank...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in alt.talk.creationism:

Ed has his own special relationship with reality.

[Devils Advocaat]

On 24 Dec, 18:27, Free Lunch <lu...@nofreelunch.us> wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Dec 2009 10:26:30 -0800 (PST), Devils Advocaat

> <mankyg...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in alt.talk.creationism:

In which I am sure he believes nym-shifting is acceptable.

[Whoops!]

On Dec 24, 1:26 pm, Devils Advocaat <mankyg...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> On 24 Dec, 14:05, "Whoops!" <amerikan-idle...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> > <
> > This is the greatest newspaper Christmas headline ever
> > written -- and every blessed word is true.
> > <
> > An electrician -- first name Oliver -- was blown to bits
> > in an explosion that occurred in a hallway of an apartment building in
> > a small Canadian town two days before Christmas many years ago..
> > <
> > Earlier that week, the publisher had instructed the editors
> > to use "Christmas-y" expressions in all headlines, if at all
> > possible, "because our readers REALLY love Christmas."
> > <
> > John Robertson, a young deskman, remembered it well
> > and certainly obliged  when he handled the story about
> > the horrible explosion, then wrote this fitting headline that
> > appeared on the newspaper's front page in its Christmas Eve edition:
> > <
> > <        DECK THE HALLS WITH BALLS OF OLLIE
> > <
> > Robertson was eventually fired by the newspaper
> > but NOT for writing the greatest "Christmas-y " headline
> > of all time. He later went on to become one of Canada's
> > best and most respected sports columnists.
> > <
> > Merry Christmas, John Robertson, wherever you are.
> > <

> > <                                                      --Ed Conrad

>
> Then it is curious how a simple Google search fails to bring up
> anything other than your multitudinous postings to newsgroups
> everywhere.
>
> No mention of Oliver the electrician, or the name of the Canadian
> town, or how many other people were hurt, or how much damage was done
> to the apartment building in question.
>
> If this was a rat, I would call it a skunk.
>
> But I suspect it is an urban myth
<

That is, until you do a global search on John Robertson
Montreal Star

[Devils Advocaat]

I did a Google of "John Robertson" with "Montreal Star", all it
verifies is that there is a sports columnist by that name who worked
for the said paper.

It doesn't offer any support to the story about the electrician you
have cross-posted to so many newsgroups.