Sacrospinnicus
posted 19 September 2006
I will give £10 to the first person who successfully works out what I saw on the Internet that eventually worked its way out of my subconscious as this word.
I may give hints later. Each hint will drop the prize by £1.

Comments
Robert
It's not from here is it?
http://www.thingbox.com/members/profile/1729
Bob
And "spin" may imply a devious or rhetorical angle taken to some affair or another.
So I'm guessing it's one of the twisted Vatican "apologies" for the Pope's university speech -- i.e. they have "spun" what he said to make it sound like he wasn't insinuating that Muslims are all evil, which he clearly was.
Laurie
Hint #1: it needs to be split into two words, as Bob has already worked out. So...
Hint #2: it refers to something seasonal