<Tree Voice> " Okay Robert, okay....so ya gotta thin us out...but please...not me eh???.....look at that beauty over there...he'd look much better in your living room than scruffy olde me. Can't you just see the presents glitter under his massive limbs?? Me, you're gonna have them uneven holes in my branches that look so bad....take him...take the best...why settle for scruffy me....ask him, he'll go proudly....I know the guy...he's always wanted to be a Christmas tree some day...."