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This week, Rolf Vogt switches on the Christmas lights - and then some - on his house Calle, Germany. But what's being said?
Thanks to all who entered. The prize of a small amount of kudos to the following:
6. Spencer Barley
Rolf had done it. After a grueling fifteen years of trying, the estimated electricity bill was finally less than the amount he had actually used.
5. Clarence_E_Pitts
Using the latest satellite tracking methods, scientists pinpoint where moths go in the winter.
4. ARoseByAnyOther
"Take that Clark Griswold."
3. Cheesy
The latest Freeview retune had unexpected results.
2. j-o-n-a-t-h-a-n
Don't mention the Watts.
1. spacelizards
Relief in Copenhagen as the cause of global warming is traced to a single address.
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Comment number 1.
At 3rd Dec 2009, Pendragon wrote:Christmas Naivete Play
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Comment number 2.
At 3rd Dec 2009, Dry Boak wrote:100% energy saving bulbs
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Comment number 3.
At 3rd Dec 2009, GeeDeeSea wrote:Bling for houses.
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Comment number 4.
At 3rd Dec 2009, Pendragon wrote:Because of the lights, Santa easily found Rolf's house ... as did three Jumbo jets and an Airbus
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Comment number 5.
At 3rd Dec 2009, BaldoBingham wrote:I was going to get SuBo to do it but she's allergic to Smurfs.
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Comment number 6.
At 3rd Dec 2009, Pendragon wrote:Unfortunately, Rolf had no money left over to pay for Angela Merkel to officially turn on the lights
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Comment number 7.
At 3rd Dec 2009, GeeDeeSea wrote:I've just come round to do the energy survey for your ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Information Pack.
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Comment number 8.
At 3rd Dec 2009, Pendragon wrote:Climate change? Isn't that something the English worry about?
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Comment number 9.
At 3rd Dec 2009, BaldoBingham wrote:Sublety had never been Rolf's strong point.
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Comment number 10.
At 3rd Dec 2009, ARoseByAnyOther wrote:Take that Clark Griswold
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Comment number 11.
At 3rd Dec 2009, Neil wrote:The land that taste forgot.
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Comment number 12.
At 3rd Dec 2009, BeckySnow wrote:Calle twinned with Walsall
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Comment number 13.
At 3rd Dec 2009, BaldoBingham wrote:My inspiration? Manfred Mann's 'Blinded By the Light'.
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Comment number 14.
At 3rd Dec 2009, ARoseByAnyOther wrote:Damn the power grid, full steam ahead
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Comment number 15.
At 3rd Dec 2009, Pendragon wrote:Rolf has an illuminated address
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Comment number 16.
At 3rd Dec 2009, ARoseByAnyOther wrote:No zoom required on Google Earth
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Comment number 17.
At 3rd Dec 2009, virtualfang wrote:Lighting Up had a different meaning once Rolf became a non smoker
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Comment number 18.
At 3rd Dec 2009, rogueslr wrote:Am I worried about global warming? No, chuck another aerosol on the barbie I say, it's freezing around here at this time of the year.
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Comment number 19.
At 3rd Dec 2009, Pendragon wrote:Rolf was upset to find the lamps didn't work at first and so had to test them one-by-one
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Comment number 20.
At 3rd Dec 2009, MightyGiddyUpGal wrote:I wear my sunglasses at night
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Comment number 21.
At 3rd Dec 2009, j-o-n-a-t-h-a-n wrote:Bavarian Illuminati.
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Comment number 22.
At 3rd Dec 2009, virtualfang wrote:Achtung Mein Herr Friends have diverted Luxembourg's power supply for me
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Comment number 23.
At 3rd Dec 2009, MightyGiddyUpGal wrote:Yes, and next year we are adding pyrotechnics
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Comment number 24.
At 3rd Dec 2009, j-o-n-a-t-h-a-n wrote:Hole in the Ozone Layer discovered above Germany.
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Comment number 25.
At 3rd Dec 2009, lucien desgai wrote:No cement, just readybrek.
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Comment number 26.
At 3rd Dec 2009, virtualfang wrote:I bought a job lot on Amazon when Woolies went into Liquidation
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Comment number 27.
At 3rd Dec 2009, rogueslr wrote:It was all going so well, until next door's Alsatian decided to answer the call of nature. He was found three streets away wearing a very surprised and pained expression.
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Comment number 28.
At 3rd Dec 2009, GeeDeeSea wrote:Ah!!! Headquarters of the Illuminati. So its true!
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Comment number 29.
At 3rd Dec 2009, j-o-n-a-t-h-a-n wrote:Don't mention the Watts.
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Comment number 30.
At 3rd Dec 2009, Stella Worton wrote:"Under new health and safety regulations, I regret I will be unable to visit your house this year, yours, Santa"
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Comment number 31.
At 3rd Dec 2009, Raven Clare wrote:When the electricity sub-station suddenly blew up, Rolf was de-lighted
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Comment number 32.
At 3rd Dec 2009, FarmerFlo wrote:Can you guess what it is yet?!
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Comment number 33.
At 3rd Dec 2009, MightyGiddyUpGal wrote:Out of the darkness of servitude through bloody conflict to the light of freedom...
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Comment number 34.
At 3rd Dec 2009, DarrenFarr wrote:Light. Camera. Achtung!
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Comment number 35.
At 3rd Dec 2009, virtualfang wrote:Yes its powered by 20,000 migrant workers running on treadmills
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Comment number 36.
At 3rd Dec 2009, Raven Clare wrote:Unfortunately, the heat melted all the gingerbread
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Comment number 37.
At 3rd Dec 2009, BeckySnow wrote:Little does he know the massive surge in electricity has caused his neighbour's home dialysis machine to fail.
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Comment number 38.
At 3rd Dec 2009, DarrenFarr wrote:Lights. Camera. Achtung!
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Comment number 39.
At 3rd Dec 2009, virtualfang wrote:I used to be a Guard on the Berlin wall and i missed the glare of the searchlights
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Comment number 40.
At 3rd Dec 2009, Raven Clare wrote:The House That Jerk Built
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Comment number 41.
At 3rd Dec 2009, Stella Worton wrote:Rolf suspected he had found the reason for his exorbitant electricity bill
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Comment number 42.
At 3rd Dec 2009, Iain MacMillan wrote:#"I was a fool to wander astray,
For straight is the gate and narrow is the way.
Now I have traded the wrong for the right;
Praise the Lord, I saw the light!"
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Comment number 43.
At 3rd Dec 2009, MightyGiddyUpGal wrote:Arnold can you see me?
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Comment number 44.
At 3rd Dec 2009, Archer-Man wrote:I decided for a more subtle approach this year, confessed Rolf. I thought that my display last year was just too garish!
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Comment number 45.
At 3rd Dec 2009, DarrenFarr wrote:And with this button I switch all the power from the Hadron Collider to my house.
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Comment number 46.
At 3rd Dec 2009, Raven Clare wrote:Rolf used to work for Trinity House and was used to living in a light house
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Comment number 47.
At 3rd Dec 2009, Mark S wrote:... and then I put the wicked witch in her own microwave and switched it on.
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Comment number 48.
At 3rd Dec 2009, Johan wrote:His favourite song is White Christmas by Bling Crosby.
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Comment number 49.
At 3rd Dec 2009, rogueslr wrote:I would have had it done earlier but it's taken most of the autumn to untangle the damn things from last year.
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Comment number 50.
At 3rd Dec 2009, MightyGiddyUpGal wrote:I take the 'Let there be light' part very seriously...
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Comment number 51.
At 3rd Dec 2009, ferenginar wrote:Many Hans make light work.
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Comment number 52.
At 3rd Dec 2009, Martin Bean wrote:"Look at the colours on my new two storey, flat-screen plasma TV."
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Comment number 53.
At 3rd Dec 2009, MightyGiddyUpGal wrote:Have yourself a scary little Christmas
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Comment number 54.
At 3rd Dec 2009, Raven Clare wrote:Rolf's wife was furious - she'd meant him to get tulip bulbs
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Comment number 55.
At 3rd Dec 2009, MightyGiddyUpGal wrote:Yes, and untangling them took me most of the year.
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Comment number 56.
At 3rd Dec 2009, Raven Clare wrote:Rolf now waited resignedly for the charge of the light brigade
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Comment number 57.
At 3rd Dec 2009, Ruthstabb wrote:If I press this button, the TV will change channels.
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Comment number 58.
At 3rd Dec 2009, cowgirlsally wrote:Actually it is visible at 40,000 feet
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Comment number 59.
At 3rd Dec 2009, Valerie Ganne wrote:Christmas celebrates the birth of Jesus in a stable - Rolf's Christmas is rather more unstable
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Comment number 60.
At 3rd Dec 2009, j-o-n-a-t-h-a-n wrote:Large Hadron Collider dwarfed by ingenious German Engineering.
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Comment number 61.
At 3rd Dec 2009, ferenginar wrote:Sun arise, bring in the morning; Ha, this is midnight.
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Comment number 62.
At 3rd Dec 2009, cowgirlsally wrote:We all wear eye masks at night actually
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Comment number 63.
At 3rd Dec 2009, Valerie Ganne wrote:Frohes a jolly good fellow
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Comment number 64.
At 3rd Dec 2009, Ruthstabb wrote:Who needed Sat Nav to find this address? Just follow the light.
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Comment number 65.
At 3rd Dec 2009, BeckySnow wrote:It diverts attention away from my terrible anorak!
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At 3rd Dec 2009, j-o-n-a-t-h-a-n wrote:Vorsprung, durch, double A's.
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Comment number 67.
At 3rd Dec 2009, Valerie Ganne wrote:For those people who wonder how we won the last war, Rolf provides the answer
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Comment number 68.
At 3rd Dec 2009, cowgirlsally wrote:Und they are all precisely 1.5cm apart
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Comment number 69.
At 3rd Dec 2009, Ruthstabb wrote:Don't worry, I have send Santa his sun glasses, we don't want him to be dazzled now, do we?
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Comment number 70.
At 3rd Dec 2009, Valerie Ganne wrote:By the look of his thin face, Rolf must have saved up for this by cutting out all food
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Comment number 71.
At 3rd Dec 2009, rogueslr wrote:I think it captures the spirit of Christmas. Excessive, garish and, like the fuses, over blown.
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Comment number 72.
At 3rd Dec 2009, cowgirlsally wrote:Don't mention the warmth
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Comment number 73.
At 3rd Dec 2009, Valerie Ganne wrote:No, no, my wife is cooking turkey, that's why you can smell burning ... I hope
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Comment number 74.
At 3rd Dec 2009, Fi wrote:Fluff Freeman's body double turns up for the big switch on.
Merry Christmas? Not 'arf!
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Comment number 75.
At 3rd Dec 2009, Valerie Ganne wrote:And next year, I'm introducing trams too, just like Blackpool
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Comment number 76.
At 3rd Dec 2009, Ruthstabb wrote:The landing lights for the reindeer are now active.
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Comment number 77.
At 3rd Dec 2009, Valerie Ganne wrote:The house is now fully illuminated ... unlike Rolf's brain
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Comment number 78.
At 3rd Dec 2009, j-o-n-a-t-h-a-n wrote:Residents of Calle with Electric Cookers are advised to allow an extra 20 minutes for their turkeys this year. This is due to an unexplained drop in electrical power.
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Comment number 79.
At 3rd Dec 2009, stuartdobbs wrote:Lighten up, it is Christmas.
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At 3rd Dec 2009, rogueslr wrote:And here we see a typical example of a man trapped in a loveless marriage.
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Comment number 81.
At 3rd Dec 2009, Nick Fowler wrote:The most disturbing thing about this is that Rolf is actually proud of it all
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Comment number 82.
At 3rd Dec 2009, Nick Fowler wrote:The main problem we have is moths
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At 3rd Dec 2009, JimmyG wrote:James May never really understood why Jeremy laughed at him so much...
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Comment number 84.
At 3rd Dec 2009, stuartdobbs wrote:Silent night, holy night, all is calm, all is bright – flipping eck! This is way bright – aaagh help, my eyes, my eyes.
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Comment number 85.
At 3rd Dec 2009, Nick Fowler wrote:If you want to see Rolf's house, it's the one with the red door
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At 3rd Dec 2009, stuartdobbs wrote:Rolf was sure the carol singers wouldn’t miss his house this year.
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At 3rd Dec 2009, JimmyG wrote:"All my neighbours laughed when I started in July, but look who's laughing now!"
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At 3rd Dec 2009, Nick Fowler wrote:Auf Wiedersehen Pest
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Comment number 89.
At 3rd Dec 2009, JimmyG wrote:Not even Santa's cataracts was going to stop Rolf getting his presents this year!!
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At 3rd Dec 2009, Nick Fowler wrote:Drop in any time - just don't touch anything made of metal
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Comment number 91.
At 3rd Dec 2009, stuartdobbs wrote:Ever since Rolf was a little boy, he was never sure why Santa had always passed his house by. So this year, he made sure that Santa would know just where to find him.
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Comment number 92.
At 3rd Dec 2009, Nick Fowler wrote:Christmas? Do you know, I'd forgotten all about it.
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At 3rd Dec 2009, Fi wrote:Das Vegas
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At 3rd Dec 2009, Marquee wrote:After being called a geek by the Freesat managing director, Rolf was determined to create a scene that showed the problem with ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ HD's picture quality. If only he could work out how to make it move.
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At 3rd Dec 2009, rogueslr wrote:The Calle of the Reviled.
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At 3rd Dec 2009, Fi wrote:Rolf was determined that the controversial Google street mapping car would not get a chance to photograph his house...
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At 3rd Dec 2009, Manisha wrote:Hope Santa won't miss my house this year like last time
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At 3rd Dec 2009, Roz Rayner-Rix wrote:Who needs HAARP?
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At 3rd Dec 2009, snoozoff wrote:now i am going to get bored as they are no more plug for the tv
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At 3rd Dec 2009, Pendragon wrote:This comment was removed because the moderators found it broke the house rules. Explain.
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