 Holiday Classics (waaaaaaay OT)
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So the Holiday season is slipping into gear. And with that comes the annual viewing of TV icons including grinches, reindeer, Santa Claws and perennially youthful school children with adults that speak in brass instrument voices? To the bemusement and utter bewilderment of fellow moderators, my role model and lifelong mentor "Yukon Cornelius" reprises his role this evening. Talking reindeer and other animated characters are mere supporting cast members to the peppermintflavouredpickaxwieldingbearded scene stealer. Your all welcome to come over for a brew and popcorn, but be forwarned not to talk, or I'll politely ask you to take it outside  . Merry Christmas!! So, who's the favorite of all you middle aged children out there? And remember "Bumbles Bounce!" JH
"It's not what I say that's important, it's what you hear" Red Auerbach
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The Grinch! and Yukon Cornelius....ptptptptptpt Nothin!
THE VOICE OF REASON
per: Stewart
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Bar Shake
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The Ghost of Christmas yet to come.(In any variation)
Says nothing, but says sooooo much.
Contra todo mal, mezcal; contra todo bien, también
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Greenhorn
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I love almost all of the Christmas shows, but two favorites. "One Magic Christmas" and a new one this year, "The Christmas Card." Of course these change like the hands on a clock.
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Schroeder playing the song 'Linus and Lucy' on 'A Charlie Brown Christmas'.
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Bar Shake
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I kind of like "Miracle on 34th St." if Santa can convince little Natalie Wood he can convince anyone. 
"Catching a yellow jacket in your shirt at seventy miles per hour can double your vocabulary" Author unknown
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Thanks John! The classic Grinch is on Tuesday nite, just FYI....I'm the same at my house about no talking- although I do allow singing along and speaking the script.
Remember about 6 or 7 years ago, CVS drugstore came out with little stuffed animal Rudolph characters, releasing new ones every week? I drove around for weeks like a LUNATIC collecting whichever ones I could find....I'm particularly fond of the Island of Misfit Toys characters (no surprise there).
"Let your soul shine,
It's better than sunshine,
It's better than moonshine,
****** sure better than rain."
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Ok Holiday Classics how about Desk Set.....Tracy & Hepburn
The percentage you're paying is too high-priced
While you're living beyond all your means
And the man in the suit has just bought a new car
From the profit he's made on your dreams
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alistair sims (ebeneezer scrooge)version of a christmas carol" i,ll retire to bedlam"
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Fe Butt
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How can ya not think the GREATEST SINGLE performance EVER put on film by anyone, EVER, NOT be on the top of anyone's list.
Jimmy Stewart as George Bailey in "It's A Wonderful Life", covers so many emotions(the hopefulness of a young man, the drudgery and disillusionment of growing older, AND the sheer extasy of refound hope) SO CONVINCINGLY, that this Holiday perenial is MY favorite, and has been since the 1960s, when I first discovered it one afternoon after returning home from school one day.
I've seen it probably 50 times, and know every line by heart, AND STILL find something new in this Frank Capra classic each and every time I watch it again.
Merry Christmas People,
Dwight
("A toast! To my big brother George. The richest man in town")
(okay! So I'm a "big softie"....ya wanna make somethin' of IT?!)  
Last edited by Dwight; 12/10/2006 5:30 PM.
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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The best of the "Christmas Carols" is the one with George C Scott. Not shown too often.
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Let's not forget Ralphie and his Red Rider Bee-Bee Gun! Eat Your Ovaltine! The other night my daughter and I watched "The Polar Express", which I hadn't yet seen....Fantastic animation, wonderful story ( I read the book every year on Christmas eve to my daughter when she was little, we'd ring the bell, sweet memories)....I clapped when Santa's sleigh took off with the reindeer who could hardly be held back!! My daughter (14 now) gave me one of her " I am terminally cool and YOU are such a DORK, Mom!" eye rolls. Fun little bonus is the Steven Tyler elf at the crazy elvish celebration at the end.
"Let your soul shine,
It's better than sunshine,
It's better than moonshine,
****** sure better than rain."
-ABB
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Top Five
1: Griswald Family Christmas
2: Christams with the Krumps
3: Bad Santa after 10:00 PM (Mommy and Daddy Only)
4: Ralphie and the Red Ryder BB Gun
5: Polar Express
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I'm not that big into the Holiday classics, at least compared to my wife I'm not. I'll watch It's a Wonderful Life, which I have on DVD, and the Burl Ives number, plus A Christmas Story, but the wife goes all out. On our DVR recorder we have 15-20 Christmas shows that will get repeated over and over in the next 2 weeks.
Her favorite is The Little Drummer Boy. I've asked her why, and she said because it involves the story of the baby Jesus, and that's what Christmas is ultimately about.
One movie I have picked up on the last couple of years is Jack Frost starring Micheal Keaton. After getting killed in a car wreck, he returns as an animated snowman to help his son deal with his death and to grow up. Doesn't hurt having Kelly Preston in it as the wife and mother.
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