It's not too late

Even if you wrote a "Ready, set, shop!" hed for Friday. Even if you've let a "'Tis the season" past. Even if Christmas came early for you -- it's still possible to kill the annual totaling of the price tag for maids a-milking, dancers dancing, calling birds, French hens and all the other stuff in the damn song.

Who knows? If the poor thing is ignored for a few seasons, maybe the AP will dare to take a year off from writing it.