I noticed this news article today concerning the conviction of two brothers who ran a spectacularly bad Christmas theme park in the New Forest.

They were convicted of misleading advertising.

Although in the eyes of the media they are guilty of something far worse- the trampling on the dreams of Children, robbing them of their innocence in the run up to Christmas 2008, and in so doing, bespoiling  the true meaning of Christmas in the name of grubby money making commercialism.

I find myself laughing out loud.

No one wants to upset kids at Christmas, and this does seem to have more than a dose of Faulty Towers about it, but does the irony of all this not smack you between the eyes?

The crime here was miss-selling Christmas product.

Or you could say being crap at monetizing Christmas.

They faked a fake Christmas.

Because this side of all the hype and the expense of another  Christmas (or Xmas) then we have to say that meaning,  as ever, was hard to come by for most of us in the mess of it all…

And to be honest- is this really any better at conveying meaning of any kind?