You'll be eating increasingly tough revenge sandwiches for months, if I have my way!

[Breadmaster] In the broadest sense, yes. (...and of course there's always a nice warming cup of revenge soup on day three.)

I'll get this. By hook or by crook.

[Breadmaster] I would say the average 10 year-old would not know about this.
[Raak] In the broadest sense, yes.
[Toby] Please clarify, or give an example.
[Chalky] Yes. Sorry, I was out of commission yesterday.

Ah. A meta-abstraction, really, such as: "Das Ding an sich", existential Angst, Jeffersonian democracy...

[Toby] Das Ding an sich was of course Kant's attempt to write a Christmas carol - not sure why it never caught on.

[Raak] No.
[Toby] Ahhh, I see. No.
[Breadmaster] In my opinion it can only either be both positive and negative, or neither.

Which is of course related to the current festive season in that the introduction of the assumption of the existence of Father Christmas is a necessary premise; and is also of course pure fiction.
[Breadmaster] I thought it did - Ding, an sich, Dingalingaling - which was subsequently corrupted by the uncomprehending rabble.

[Toby] No.
[All] *Clue* It may help to think along the lines of Raak's first question, omitting the word "festive".

Toby] I liked Chuck Berry's version!

[Inkspot] I think you're the only person who did!

[Inkspot] *Sporadic applause from the audience.* Strong calendar association, but not a solstice, nor an equinox.
[Breadmaster] No.
[Raak] No.