I’m getting ready for Christmas and I need some advice on a couple of decorating questions I have:
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[li]Is it OK to use bizzle binks by themselves, or should they always be paired with wungs?[/li]
[li]How many pan toonkas can I hang on my ceiling before it’s considered “too many”?[/li][/list=1]
You can never have too many pan toonkas on the ceiling!
I have never liked wungless bizzle binks.
You hang your pan toonkas ON THE CEILING??? How??? Don’t the glitter fountains get glitter everywhere? Don’t they leak? And how do you get the candy out?
Not only is it ok to use the bizzle binks by themselves, it is REQUIRED if one is to adhere to any notion of traditional aesthetics. The addition of wungs to bizzle binks is purely a case of shameless pandering by the Wung Manufacturing Board.
Prior to 1965, wungs and bizzle binks were placed separately (as makes sense considering their completely separate ethnic origins). About that time, many holiday decorators discovered that a very pleasant, if untraditional, visual effect could be achived by placing them together (so long as you avoided color and pattern clashes).
The WMB was responsible for promoting this practice, because, as you well know, wungs are far more fragile than bizzle binks and were quite often damaged by placing them on the bizzle binks. Since no one wants to have their bizzle bink display spoiled by the sight of a bronken wung, the sales of wungs increased. Precisely what the WMB was after.
I prefer a more traditional holiday setting and place my wungs and bizzle binks separately. We enjoy it this way because our family has a long tradition of making our own wungs on Fleegle’s night, and our bizzle binks are already displayed by that time.
On the question of pan toonkas, I find that it largely depends on whether you use two-fluted pan toonkas or four-fluted. I find the four-fluted variety to be very ‘busy’ and tend to limit their use. Re-Agent tells me that Martha Stewart is doing a one hour special on how to make your own two-fluted pan toonkas from discarded jelly jars and used dryer sheets. I will ask her to post an update if you’re interested.
Of course I hang my pan toonkas on the ceiling! Where else would I put them? On the floor? Sorry, already got the floor piled up with pam poonas. On the bathtub? Nope, it’s already covered with dang-donglers.
Then there’s the question of where to put all the Who-floo fluff.
Oh, and is anybody else having trouble finding Who-font flant this year? Every store I’ve gone to has been sold out for weeks. I’m desparate to find some - my uncle and my aunt are visiting this year!