This is the best christmas present ever :D

... well, would have if I had been drinking coffee at the time.

Think we need a "NSFK" (Not Safe For Keyboard) label for these posts.

But tell me, just how many pints were consumed and isn't it a bit early for *that* much alcohol?

Chapeau, Monsieur!

An excellent start to Monday. Cheers, Lester

Take a look here, they must have got word and taken down the structure, in the night...

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Cheers Reg, think you managed to cover pretty much all the bases with that one - shame you couldn't crowbar Paris into the story somewhere though (maybe a cameo on page 3?)

I'm lost for words, Lester. Bravo. :-) And applaud the Post Modern Revisionist Nativity Play.

"At maximum resolution, the chilling truth is revealed:" .....AI Promising NIcelandscape?

And the penguin is appropriate on so many levels.

... Is it April 1 2009 yet? Or has El Reg just had the Xmas party and written today's articles while drunk?

Funniest thing I've read in ages.

Thanks :-)

... for Mr Haines.

I laughed like a drain! (still cackling like a drunk, but as I'm in the pub, no wonder..) Thanks!!

This country needs more of. How is it that it's left to a tech rag to publish these harrowing pictures, while the mainstream press ignore what's happening on their doorsteps?

Bravo El Reg, Bravo.

(Can you get an interview with Mr O Prime? I'd love to read that!)

...who can't indentify with this inspired, if not bizarre, piece of scripture?

Paris, because she's got a big box too.

..the bosses are off on Christmas holidays and the office staff don't know what to do with themselves..

Paris? She knows what to do with herself.

Bloody brilliant article!

As a Peterboroughian (or 'Scum' as we're sometimes known) I can confirm that this package has been there for some time. Geoff Capes originally tried to deliver it when he was working for the Royal Mail in Peterborough, but the intended recipient not being at home, he tossed it over the fence into next door's garden. Unfortunately the Google maps resolution isn't high enough to see the multitude of red rubber bands he also left at the scene.

hurrah!

Title says it all

...Lester. Brightened my day!

Particularly liked "the presence of a rival manufacturer's figurines in a traditionally Playmobil reconstruction an affront to continuity".

/chuckle

anyone would know that locals refer to the place as Peterboghorror.

Ergo I out you lot for faking the images in this story.

You'll have to try better to get one past me. A quick flash of Paris' Whotsits might help :-D

.... pure class, well done :)

Outstanding work.

Oh, pull the udder one...;-)

Happy christmas to you, too!

Nowt like a bit of a PlayMobil humour first thing on't near-to-xmas-monday morn!

Very apt, I thought, when someone above labelled this as a 'Post Modern Revisionist Nativity Play' as its the closest thing I've come to a nativity play in about 30 years.

Factual too, not unlike recent Top Gear review factual-ness.

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Optimus (Mr) Prime RULES!

What have you at El Reg been smoking...?

Good one Mr Haines, you are the best journo at El Reg!

Paris sends her love...

All HP boxes have HP tape and I see none (Don't tell me they don't I have ordered from them for years never once have they not used their HP branded clear tape)? Where is the HP sticker on the ram? This obviously is not sent by HP but someone who has received the box and recycled it by sending it on.

...and a merry christmas to you all as well.

They ran out due to all the other packaging they had to send out. They made due with what was left.

Lester AWESOME reconstruction.....just wish I was at work when I had read it :P

I miss the words - great work. Absolutely breath-taking. All the references here... I stay dumbstruck.

Jeez I love it: Thank you Lester - this *is* Christmas indeed!

Chris

who saw the first pic on page three and though it was going to be about the London Olympics?

Well, it would be round here. I'm typing less than a mile away, and the box blocks most of the Tesco depot out. How we love them, with their fridge engines running 24 hours a day, the crazed Polish HGV drivers hammering up and down the local roads, and the hordes of Lithuanian fork lift drivers banging in and out of the trailers. Other amenities nearby include the local traveller site, with its picturesque rubbish moraine, and further afield the McCains factory emits its exciting aromas of chip fat and boiled sewage. Nature has its place with the abandoned brickpits and the River Nene to the south, out of which are dredged cars, sometimes containing the occupants, and on one occasion a horsebox, still containing its occupant. Bright spots include the "Argos Cenotaphs", set up to commemorate those too drunk to steer, swim, or breathe under water.

Peterborough, so good they named it once.

Bravo on the playmobil constructions.

Made me chuckle a lot.

Peter

:D