Amen to that! Half the world's problems are due to there being too many people in it. Hasn't the world popuatiom doubled in the last hundred years or something? - I do know there's some pretty scary stats along those lines out there somewhere.
Back in the day I had a little percussion gadget, a piece of wood with half a dozen little bells attached to it. I would warn the kids they had to get to sleep or Fater Christmas wouldn't be able to deliver. 'Listen out for his sleigh-bells', I told them, 'if you hear them he's getting near, so...