We asked men and women for their most amusing (in hindsight, anyway!) stories and here's what they told us.
As well as the computer games, expensive toys and televisions that many children ask for, the requests range from wishes that fractured families be repaired, to letters from hard-up single mums hoping for presents for their kids, and amusing questions about Santa's lifestyle.
I had been expecting maybe an hour of her time, but somehow we ended up spending the entire day together: I was pressed to drink bottles of wine she had picked for their rude or amusing names (she didn't drink – saying she couldn't trust her addictive personality).
Small wonder, I suppose, that Noel Fielding and Julian Barratt have come up with little that is new or amusing for their latest tour.
Despite such moral lapses, treasured by any sane reader for their delicious complications and amusing consequences, Easy pushes on with the investigation.
Since an essential element of the American idea is its variety, I have tried always to celebrate things that are amusing for their own sake, or ridiculous but revealing, or simply of intrinsic interest.
It has produced countless misinterpretations of data that are often amusing for their folly, but also hair-raising in view of the serious consequences.
The girls are asked to give amusing reasons for their decisions, but the reasons they give are not amusing, and aren't even strictly reasons.
As such, it was not uncommon for wealthier individuals or families to have several Geeks and Nerds living in their mansions, working in cramped custom-made labs and workshops to invent amusing things for their "hosts".
Perhaps you feel that the internet is the place for amusing asides about the difficulties of gendering hyenas, but can I plead for their return to the paper?
