Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, Blah Blah Blah

Well then, that's it for hecklerspray regular for 2006. Immediately after writing this we're going to lock ourselves in a small room to mentally steel ourselves ahead of a solid week spent playing endless games of semi-drunk, weirdly competitive games of Monopoly with our family.

But what a year 2006 has been. We've had tears - Steve Irwin getting bumped off by the pussycat of the sea; we've had laughter - Denise Richards throwing a laptop at a pensioner in a wheelchair; and we've had deep deep confusion - Tom Cruise both fathering a child and getting married to a young girl? Paul McCartney being accused of repeatedly stabbing a monoped with a drinking receptacle? But most of all, we've had a fat German boy screaming at his computer in a genuinely disturbing way. Can 2007 top all that? Bloody right it can.

Although we're not going to be posting our usual amount of pithy news again until January 2, we are going to let you read the various cop-out year-end Best Of lists that we've slapped together for next week.

Finally, briefly (because we're really not very good at it), a rare moment of sincerity. hecklerspray got about 600% bigger over the course of 2006, and that's mostly down to you. Actually that's a lie - it's mostly down to us. But it's partly down to you too, and we think you effing well rock because of it. And as a reward, here's a link to 45 Christmassy online games.

See you back here on January 2; we hope your Christmas isn't too awful…

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