A red-and-white gift bag holds an evergreen sprig and patterned mitten, with paper snowflakes trailing down its front.

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Jerome Nash

Greeting all! Remember, only fifteen more shoplifting days til Christmas!

— Life's Work · 1996

Behind the line

What it means

Our interpretation.

This is a mock-festive greeting that twists the familiar countdown to Christmas into a countdown to shoplifting. The humour is in the cheerful, salesman-like tone attached to something illicit, as though petty theft were another seasonal tradition to look forward to.

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