That’s hecklerspray all done for 2008, then – it’s time for our annual attempt to use these withered ‘leg’ things that we’ve heard so much about.

Looking back it’s been a bit of a golden year, really - Britney Spears went mental, Lindsay Lohan became a lesbian and Paris Hilton got robbed. Oh, and some idiot invented Twilight. We take it back, it’s been a crappy year.

It’s technically not over yet, though – between Friday and the new year we’ll be slinging up the various hecklerspray writers’ best of lists for you to read and instantly dismiss as the work of rank amateurs, so you can look forward to that in between realising you don’t like your family as much as you thought and eating enough selection boxes to keep your vomit brown and treacly for a month.

And now, the awkwardly sincere pay-off – once again, we’d all like to express our genuine appreciation to anyone who’s read hecklerspray over the last 12 months. The commenters, the silent readers, the people who’ve accidentally stumbled across the site and found it made them angry, abusive and illiterate – hecklerspray wouldn’t be what it is without all of your help. Given the chance, we’d hump all of you silly.

So merry Christmas, happy new year and be sure to join us on January 2 for the now-traditional ‘hecklerspray beats its head against a desk because there is no news whatsoever’ day. It’ll be fun! Have a lovely Christmas, everyone.