GOOD afternoon and welcome to a special Christmas edition of May Contain Facts. Issues of yuletide festivity, the virgin birth and the teachings of Christ dominate this week's discussion of the news agenda.
May Contain Facts reader Gunter Netzer of Ruby Bay thinks he saw a story in a newspaper this week about the Green Party's policy on Christmas trees.
"As I understand it," writes Netzer, "the Greens said they're against an artificial Christmas tree, but they're also against a real tree. I didn't get to the end of the story, so I don't know what they're advocating as a positive alternative.
"My guess is that Hamilton Replica Watches the Greens are calling on New Zealanders to imagine a Christmas tree.
"I'm into that - as a German, I've a very strong imagination - but just thought I should check with you first before following orders."
Green MP Catherine Delahunty said this week that New Zealanders should consider climate change when shopping for a Christmas tree.
She advocates using a growing tree, rather than one which has been swiped down with an axe.
Don't stop at one natural tree - do your bit for the environment and get two, she advised.
May Contain Facts contacted Ms Delahunty for further comment.
She said: "Planting a couple of good, healthy fir trees - or better still, native trees - in the lounge could really pay dividends for householders at Christmas.
"The carbon credits could be used in exchange for gift vouchers at, say, the Warehouse.
"But it's a bit like the FlyBuys card. It can take a while for points to add up. The thing to do is grow a couple of really big Fake Bell&Ross trees in the lounge. Through the roof. The sky's the limit, really.
"In time, the carbon credits could cover some of the cost of an A6 kowhai diary, on sale at the Warehouse for $4.49."
The Warehouse also features in a letter to May Contain Facts from reader Iona Whipp of Morrinsville.
"I remember reading in October about the streaker who ran naked through the Warehouse somewhere in the South Island," she writes. "Is he still at large, or was he pulled over?"
Jay Katon, 19, a panelbeater, was fined $350 this week for offensive behaviour at the Warehouse in Alexandra, Central Otago, on October 25.
Police said the man was drunk when he entered the store wearing a pair of socks and using a shoe to cover his genitals.
A "large number of people", including mothers and young children, were shopping when he ran around the clothing section.
He told police he had been drinking at the Ettrick Tavern an hour before the incident, and his clothes had been stolen.
May Contain Facts wishes to put on record that the judge ought to have taken into account that Katon actually bought some clothes at the Warehouse before leaving.
Mrs Whipp added a postscript to her letter. She said that whoever was responsible for the controversial mural of Mary and Joseph, at St Matthews-in-the-City church in Auckland, should be shot.
Her outrage was shared by 4713 other May Contain Facts readers, who were "sickened . . . disgusted . . . highly offended" by the mural, which depicts Ma
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