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Basically this is an advent-style calendar, but with a
small
cardboard window you can open for every day of the
year.
Each window has a different picture behind it.
Similar to a standard format calendar, it's made of 6
dual-
sided pages; a side for every month. This format is relatively
efficient, because -
provided there are no windows opposing each other -
each
page can be made of two pieces of card glued together.
It's pretty clear that we roll out all the cliches - Bunnies,
chicks and easter eggs around easter, a heart on
Valantine's
day, a dragon on St George's day, flowers on Mother's
day, a piggy-bank on a bank-holiday, and
so on.
All holidays have a larger window, of course.
Taken to its logical extreme...
https://xkcd.com/1577/
I wonder if these are either used or put together by actuaries... [RayfordSteele, Oct 18 2015]
Gin advent calendar
http://metro.co.uk/...-than-ever-5447908/
[hippo, Oct 20 2015]
[link]
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I like it. Are these things never randomized, to give you your fortune for the day you've opened? |
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//Is opening a small square of hinged paper to reveal a badly
drawn picture still exciting as it was before computers ?// |
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Yes. And somehow still leaps and bounds more exciting than
Mondays. |
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I think it would be rather big, but I would love to have one. If
it would fit in the garage. |
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//I think it would be rather big// |
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You want the sort that contains chocolates, don't you? |
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Well I certainly do or I'm not playing! |
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How about an alcoholic year-long advent calendar?
Between each window there's be a bottle of an
appropriately seasonal spirit. |
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I've seen that alcoholic one recently! BTW I had a weird dream last night in which you featured [Ian] |
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Are you sure that you weren't just watching his 'Robot Christmas' video, po? |
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//You want the sort that contains chocolates, don't you?// |
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If there was a chocolate behind each little door, we would buy this. |
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Ugh, fixed. For some reason my internal spell-checker consistently fails on that word. |
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I like this, but I always forget to open them everyday. Maybe
we can combine this with the Alzheimer's idea...+
"Open window 22 now." |
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I thought you were meant to open all the doors and eat all the chocolate immediately on receipt. Then discard the now-useless remains. |
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That's a perfectly rational and reasonable hypothesis, [poc}. |
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My hypotheses are always perfectly rational and reasonable. |
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We are intrigued to know what motivated you to strip off all your clothes, smear yourself with toothpaste and cranberry sauce, then put a flowerpot on your head and run down the middle of the street with a gladiolus frond in each hand screaming "The Crayfish ! The Crayfish ! They're coming ! Stop them, stop them !" |
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Please keep your internal inter-collective conversations to yourselves, there's no need to share your embarearseing secrets with the rest of us. |
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<reminder to self: we're out of absinthe; rectify> |
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