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Christmas Energy: The 'Miracle' of the Dry Cell Battery |
| Section: LIFE / HUMOR |
| Author: Robert Irwin |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 12/1/1987 |
| Size: 463 Words, 2,656 Characters |
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Cultural anthropologists of the future, excavating the ruins of late twentieth-century homes, may conclude that the principal religious icon of Christmas was the dry-cell battery. I'm not going to suggest going back to gifts that don't spin, whir, flash, and talk by virtue of the miracle of batteries, but I think we should use the...
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...year it will be different at our house. I'll wrap the batteries with fancy paper, ribbon, and a gift card, and I'll give the kids "the gift of energy." Or maybe I'll wrap the batteries separately and present a lot of gifts of energy. There will no rechargeable batteries. I'll present the batteries with fanfare and let the gifts themselves magically appear out of the bathrobes and junk drawers.
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