This is a tough crowd.
Might I suggest everyone’s lightening up.
Merry Christmas.
Tough crowd, indeed!
Meant to add, Merry Christmas to you as well!
This `Noman’ that pops up in the middle of your story reminds me of the story in Homer’s “Odyssey” starring `Odyssus’ (or Ulysses).
Odysses and his men wound up somehow in the cave of a `Cyclops’, one of the children of the Greek gods. This one-eyed monster’s name was Poyphemus. He wasn’t a very pleasant fellow—none of them were, they lived by themselves in caves and liked to eat any men that wandered by.
He discovered Ulysses in his cave but couldn’t catch him: nearsighted, one eye and all that, but he did talk to him, and asked his name.
Ulysses was a wiley rascal and told Polyphemus that his name was `Noman.’ Well, you know the rest of the story: Ulysses and his men blinded the cyclops and when Polyphemus ran out of his cave bellowing in pain, the other cyclops, concerned, asked him `Who hurt you?’ and he replied, “Noman!” and they all thought he was nuts.
Neptune wasn’t happy because these were his boys, so he blew Ulysses and his crew around the Medit—, Meda, Medy—sea for years.
That wasn’t much of a Christmas story, was it? but it was light. Except for the blinding part.