The following is not very clever obfuscation, and it's not the
most palatable ASCII drawing ever drawn, but I suppose it's good enough
to elicit a few chuckles and/or groans.
Seasonaly yours,
`/anick
#!/usr/bin/perl
# to be run once a day from December 13 to December 24
$_=<<CHRISTMAS;
Okay, so I blow at drawing bows...
462757d6d65
627370246275 7d6d696e67602 0796075627
370207960796e6 7602c 6f6274637 0216d2c65616
0796e6 7602c6164696 563702 4616e63696 e67602d616964637
0216d2d6 96c6b696e6760 2377716e 6370216d2 377796d 6d696e676
02765656375 60216d2c6169796e6760276f6c64 656e602279 6e6763702
3616c6c696e67602269627463702642756e63686028656e6 370247572
747c6560246f66756370214e646021602071627472796467656029
6e6021602075616270247275656e2
1111001001110110
0000010000101110 0001011010100110
0000010000100100 1111101000000100
0010011010000110 1001111000000100
0100011010100110 0110011011110110
0100111010100110 0000010011000010
0001011001001110 1001011011001110
0010111010110110 1000011011001110
0101000010011010 1111011010101110
0100111000000100 0010111001001110
1010111010100110 0000010000110110
1111011001101110 1010011000000100
1110011010000110 0110111010100110
0000010000101110 1111011000000100
0010111000010110 1010011010100110
CHRISTMAS
s/\s|\n//g;s/.*\.//;s/[10]*$//;($h,@gifts)=((pack"b*",$&),split' ',
(pack"h*",$_),24);@days=qw/one two three four five six seven eight
nine ten eleven twelve/[0..($x=(localtime)[3]-13),11-$x];($_,$t) =
(pop@days,'th');s|^o.*|last|||s|.*o$|second|||s|$t.*|${t}ird|||s
|$|$t|;s |(?<!e)ve|f|;splice@gifts,0,22-2*$x;
y.t..s;s|(n)e(t)|$1$2|;
print eval qq/"$h\n"/;$_="\u$_ @{[shift@gifts,shift@gifts]}\n"and
(s/One (A)(nd a)/$x?$1x$x.$2:$1/e+1)&&print for reverse@days;
