– When you stop to think about it, some of the traditions we have at Christmastime are a little bit odd, don't you think?
– How do you mean?
– Well, things like putting large trees in a corner of the living room and decorating them with random shiny baubles. Covering the outside of your house with gaudy displays of twinkling multicoloured lights. It's not really the sort of thing you do in the normal course of events.
– But that's the point: it's all about doing something a little out of the ordinary in order to celebrate the joys of the season. Otherwise you would just be doing what you would do any other day.
– Like having a sensible-sized roast chicken for lunch rather than a bird the size of a small dinosaur?
– Precisely. Where's the fun of just having chicken when you could have a small dinosaur?
– And sprouts.
– Sprouts are not so extraordinary.
– They are for me. I can't abide them.
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