Helloooooooooo! And welcome to the 136th EVER newsletter from rathergood!
We have entered December, which means it's time to talk about CHRISTMAS! And everyone knows Christmas means just one thing- MANATEES! I've got a couple of Christmassy things for you today, and they BOTH include MANATEES! YEAH!
First off, USBCell asked me to do a Christmas thing for them, and we have duly made them something wonderful, involving bunnies and yes of course a manatee:
http://www.rathergood.com/usbcellchristmas
Now, clearly this leaves us with a need for some clarification over the role of Christmas Manatee, so I have made this explanatory song which includes some extremely important information you will want to remember:
http://www.rathergood.com/christmas_manatee
I'm sure you'll agree this is totally marvellous!
What are you putting at the top of your Christmas tree? Well, Iain Holder has got a Spongmonkey in pride of place on his, which makes him TOTALLY AWESOME:
I urge you all to emulate his awesomeness forthwith. If you want to get your hands on a fantastic rathergood toy for your tree, or as a christmas present (and what could possibly be a better present than the Joy of Spongmonkey?) you can get them at the shop, innit:
http://www.printshop.co.uk/rathergood
Hey, I cooked Pig's Tongue with Hare in Mustard Sauce the other day. I have decided to name this dish (which is of my own invention) Harey Tongue. Here is a picture of the tongue, ready to eat. DELICIOUS:
You need a totally incredible festive Christmas Manateeshirt! YES YOU DO! Look how fantastic they are!
http://bit.ly/manateeshirt-skinny
Today I am writing the newsletter at home, with both the little cats sitting on me. They are very happy and helpful. Fluffychops (aka Chippychops) is purring and trying to hunt the cursor. CatBot 9000 (aka Robot Cat) is purring and batting my hand on the mouse. What lovely, helpful little kitties they are!
UPDATE Aargh! It is 5 minutes later and they are attacking me and the laptop! It is becoming impossible to type. Must.....send............newsletter.
I think that's about it for today, except to tell you that I love you. I love you so HARD! I'd do anything for you! I'd bore a big hole in to a dugong and climb in, eating out a cavity large enough for me to hide in, then I'd sew the dugong back up just leaving room for a breathing straw. I'd live there, inside the dugong's insides, breathing through the straw in the warm wet darkness, gnawing away enough dugong flesh to stop myself from starving to death, for as long as it takes (which could be many years) until Christmas Manatee arrives to enslave my dugong and force him to pull his sleigh. Eventually this will happen, as it happens in the fullness of time to all dugongs. This is their shared fate. The tragedy of their kind.
I'll stay hidden away in the flesh of the dugong while it toils and toils pulling Christmas Manatee's sleigh around and around the earth, collecting enough bread and pond weed and heads for his yearly festive round. Then, on Christmas Eve, Christmas Manatee will drive the me-containing dugong out on his globe-spanning delivery! I will bore another hole out through the surface of the dugong so that I can see where we are, and eventually we will reach your house, and while Christmas Manatee is busily delivering your bread and pond weed and head, I'll burst out of the dugong, glorious in my bloody, meaty, dugong-covered freedom and dive down the chimney of your house clutching the dugong's precious bile duct as a gift for you!
I'll collapse in to your fire place, and if there's a fire burning there I'll probably get away with survivable (though disfiguring) burns as I'll be soaking wet with dugong fluids. Then I'll leap on to your bed where you will have been sleeping peacefully but will now wake up to see me, blackened and smoking, covered in seared gore, screaming in my triumph, screaming and screaming and screaming and ramming the precious dugong bile duct and its precious cargo of dugong bile in to your beautiful mouth as I cry in joy and scream and cry and scream.
Oh GOD that will be the BEST NIGHT OF BOTH OUR LIVES and also the BEST CHRISTMAS EVER OH GOD.
I would totally do that for you. Just give me the nod and I'll head off to find the dugong. Just let me know ok? OK? LET ME KNOW OK?
OK? IS THAT OK?
Mwah mwah superhugs and intimate touches!
Yours sincerely
Joel Veitch
Founder of rathergood.com
Member of the International Academy of Digital Arts and SciencesWinner of 3 Webby AwardsMaster of Arts (Electronic Media) Oxford Brookes
Bachelor of Arts (English and History) University of Leeds
Marksman (.22, 5.56, 7.62, LMG)
Former Sixer of Grey Six, 19th Forest Hill Cub Scouts
Former Member of MGS school cricket team
Former Sergeant, Combined Cadet Force (RAF Section)
Silver Swimming Badge
3rd best Cross Country runner in my class at age 12
Once had a letter published in the New Scientist
Attended one-night Pork Butchery Course
Keen amateur ukulele player
Bronze lifesavers swimming badge
Full clean driver's license
Passed Cycling Proficiency Test
A levels – English Literature, French and History, all grade A
GCSEs 7xA 2xB
Good understanding of the principals of flight
Good understanding of the principles of spelling
Winner of the Head's Prize for Progress, first year, Aylesford School
50 meters swimming badge
Once did a wee in a loo containing Dannii Minogue's wee
25 meters swimming badge
Amateur experimental rocket / meat scientist
Has caught piranhas on a hand line
Willing to learn semaphore if required
Able to sing The Girl From Ipanema and Mas Que Nada in Portuguese
Survivor of Trans-Atlantic Airplane Fire Horror
Wielder Of The Power Of Science
Inventor of the Dictator Finger Thingdicator
Defeater of Transformers (regardless of voltage)
Founder member of the super-secret League Of Internet Justice
Has eaten chicken madras for breakfast
Commander In Chief of Pork ForceSaver Of Old Ladies In Distress
Owner of Monster TruckExperienced lawn mower
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Amateur Marine Biologist
Vaguely knowledgeable about steam engines
Paper Plane Expert
The man behind many of the Internet’s biggest online successes (London Evening Standard 6 October 2010)
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