During December, many householders display- along with other decorations- a "nativity" scene. These are, unsurprisingly, formulaic and predictable, and snow is usually depicteded.
Why not be different this year?
Now available from BorgCo, a selection of beautifully designed and crafted winter scenes, complete with lifelike* figures of humans and animals, which will be a talking point at any festive get-together.
Choose from:
Napoleon's Retreat from Moscow Balaklava Flanders, 1914 Stalingrad
Others are in development.
The deluxe version includes a genuine mechanical musical box that plays a tune appropriate to the event portrayed.
*Or in most cases, deathlike.-- 8th of 7, Dec 03 2017 Napoleon's Retreat from Moscow: An infographic. https://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/postersEdward Tufte describes Minard's infographic of Napoleon's Russian campaign of 1812 as "probably the best statistical graphic ever drawn" [zen_tom, Dec 04 2017] Which one of those has the sausage roll in the manger?-- MaxwellBuchanan, Dec 03 2017 That would be the one where the music box plays Greggorian Chant. ..-- 8th of 7, Dec 03 2017 A Siberian gulag makes a lovely festive scene to decorate the inside of your fridge's ice box. +-- xenzag, Dec 03 2017 Ah, another sale. Excellent. We accept all major credit cards.-- 8th of 7, Dec 03 2017 // sausage roll in the manger? //
Oh, wait, it might be Pret-a-manger ... do they do sausage rolls ?-- 8th of 7, Dec 03 2017 Washing their socks by night, presumably ...-- 8th of 7, Dec 04 2017 There would also be a group of men with behavioural and developmental disorders caused by trisomy of the male sex chromosome - the 3-Ys men.-- MaxwellBuchanan, Dec 04 2017 Perhaps a movie scene from 'The Thing' or 'The Shining' might be particularly festive, or something of Stalag Luft 3? Ooh, I know... the Day After Tomorrow...-- RayfordSteele, Dec 04 2017 Oh no, not that. Please, please, not that ... if you tried to make a Day After Tomorrow tableau, everything you built would just fall straight through the plot holes ...
Why not just make a sub-zero version of U-571, and watch it sink without trace ?-- 8th of 7, Dec 04 2017 random, halfbakery