Gone are the days when a sandwich, bowl of jelly and a game of pass-the-parcel were enough for a jolly children's party.
E Nesbit, author of jolly good children's books, including The Treasure Seekers, also wrote some short and deadly ghost stories.
"We used to think that we could not do it and now that I see that we can do it," Jolly Okot, Invisible Children's country director, said in the film when Obama announced his decision.
But the first drawing she made is a jolly picture of two children building a snowman – she smuggled it through to her father who sent back a crucial message: "Draw what you see".
There was no home-brewed cider, no clamoring of children, no jolly Dad clad in a ridiculous apron.
Late last year, I spent a week in South Africa's townships researching the jolly topic of masculinity and child rape for an article.
Lomax, the blind, soft toy collector and Mr Jelly, the hook-handed clown who keeps getting double booked with the much more child-friendly Mr Jolly, as he explains himself, "Yeah, I can do princess stories.
Pinkie the baby-faced killer and his simple-complex vileness, alternately treading down and encouraging naive Rose's spaniel love, makes for repeated wincing on the reader's part; so does his cheerful nemesis, Ida, and her somehow hideous implacability, peeping out like withered children from the jolly robe of the Spirit of Christmas Present.
Sinterklaas was eventually adopted by America's English speakers as Santa Claus and became known as the jolly, generous fellow who presented children with gifts at Christmastime.
The episode follows baby Stewie, who becomes obsessed with the fictional British children's television series "Jolly Farm Revue".
