The Official Christmas Thread of 2008

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12-22-08

Hey,You forgot Festivus

Many Christmas's ago, Frank Costanza went to buy a doll for George.
There was only one doll left and as he reached for it, so did another man.
After struggling for the doll, he thought there could be another way.
The doll was destroyed, but out of that, a new holiday was born.
It was called Festivus. A Festivus for the Rest of Us.

Requires no decoration. Frank finds tinsel distracting. The pole is aluminum tall, silver, hollow, long and skinny.

At the Festivus dinner, you gather your family around and tell them all the ways they have disappointed you over the last year.

The head of the family tests his strength against another friend or family member.The great honor is given out to a different person each year. In Seinfeld, Cosmo Kramer was given the honor but turned it down to George Costanza as he had an appointment. Festivus is not over until the head of the family is pinned.

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Fugitive

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12-22-08

* What are your top 10 favorite Christmas movies?
Can�t think of 10.
Bad Santa

* What has always been one of your favorite Christmas traditions?
Having a holiday.

* Do you believe in Santa Claus?
Never believed in him.

* What's the best/favorite present you have received?
A holiday.

* Do you remember your first Christmas?
No I was too young.

* What do you plan to do on Christmas Day?
Have a holiday on the beach.

* Do you like snow?
Hate it.

* Does it snow/get cold where you live?
No, thankfully.

* Is Christmas your favorite holiday? If not, then what is?
No. Easter. It gives the Easter Bunny time in the limelight.

TheMightyCelestial

Registered User

12-22-08

* What are your top 10 favorite Christmas movies?

10. Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer - As a kid who grew up incredibly poor, there was more than one year whereupon Santa didn't leave me or my siblings any presents.
That fact combined with Santa's bad attitude towards Rudolph in the first half of this special is reminder to me what an @$$hole Santa really is.
This movie helps to remind me to keep the holidays real.

9. Star Wars Holiday Special - What does a Christmas train wreck look like? This special answers that question.
And as horrible as it is, morbid curiosity prevents me from looking away.

8. How The Grinch Stole Christmas - For a long time, I used to think that I was the King of Sinful Sots.
Then I saw this.
And I realized that compared to this guy, I'm just a moldy purple spot
on the dead tomato splot that is his heart.
You're the true rotter,
Mr. Grinch.

7. PeeWee's Playhouse Christmas Special/other - What does a Christmas train wreck look like if the train could talk, was gay and knew exactly how to walk a slightly twisted tightrope of childhood innocence & just good ol' fashioned grown-up holiday cheer?
F#ck Santa.
I prefer Pee Wee.

6. A Christmas Story - Lemme tell you guys something, if Santa were to leave an official Red Ryder carbine-action 200-shot range model air rifle/BB gun under my tree this year, even at my current age, I'd still end up beating my chest & proclaiming to the whole world that it's a wonderful life.
And before anyone says anything,
lemme just say
"F#ck my eye. I don't care."

5. Die-Hard 2 - Actually, I guess we should include the 1st Die-Hard tied with this one, though I definitely feel that this 2nd one is better.
Now the test of any holiday film is if answers this question: Does it inspire the holiday spirit within me?
Yippy-kay-yay, mother-f#cker.
This is how great Christmas-themed action movies are supposed to be made.

4. Nightmare Before Christmas - Is it a Halloween movie with a Christmas twist, or a Christmas movie with a Halloweenic slant? Or is it both?
For me, I look at it like discovering that your trick-or-treat bag has been filled with presents instead of candy.
And no rocks.
Or coal.
IMO, Tim Burton's best film, by far. Such a great cast of characters. Innocent enough for kids who can still see the world thru bushy-tailed bright-eyed glasses, yet twistedly dark enough to keep the interests of those of us adults who've had that part of our spirits crushed a long time ago.
A holiday movie for all ages on either side of the perspective spectrum.

3. Nobody's Fool - This is simply one of those movies that I really enjoy that never really gets any mention anywhere. Paul Newman, Jessica Tandy, Bruce Willis, Melanie Griffin & Phillip Seymour Hoffman are a great cast of actors playing a great cast of characters. And each one a piece of the the puzzle that, despite their sharp edges, all still fit in perfectly.

2. Bad Santa - Best. Santa. Movie. Ever.

1. Charlie Brown Christmas - Oh, just in case I forget to wish any of you MoFo's a happy holidays,
"Merry Christmas, you blockheads".

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Last edited by TheMightyCelestial; 04-25-09 at 09:52 PM.

mark f

Bright light. Bright light. Uh oh.

12-23-08

Merry Christmas, Everybody!

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Iroquois

Welcome to the human race...

12-24-08

Originally Posted by Holden Pike

Essential Questions

What are your top 10 favorite Christmas movies?

1. Die Hard
2. Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
3. Gremlins
4. A Christmas Story
5. Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang
6. National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
7. Trading Places
8. The Bishop's Wife
9. Eyes Wide Shut
10. The Curse of the Cat People (1944)

What, no Brazil?

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I really just want you all angry and confused the whole time.

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Mrs. Darcy

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I am half agony, half hope.

12-24-08

Essential Questions (Post an answer if you would like to)
* What are your top 10 favorite Christmas movies?
1. Love Actually
2. The Shop Around the Corner
3. National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
4. Charlie Brown Christmas...I know, not a movie, but I love it.
5. The Bishop's Wife
6. Bridget Jones's Diary
7. Miracle on 34th Street
8. The Family Stone
9. Elf
10. A Muppet Christmas Carol

* What has always been one of your favorite Christmas traditions?
Filling the Christmas stockings

* Do you believe in Santa Claus?
Yes. He lives in our Christmas spirit.

* What's the best/favorite present you have received?
Getting the whole family together, aunts, cousins, significant others, and sharing the holiday spirit.

* Do you remember your first Christmas?
Nope

* Do you leave cookies and milk out for Santa Claus?
Not anymore

* What do you plan to do on Christmas Day? (Go into detail on this one)I'll get up before anyone else to have coffee and listen to Christmas music as I look at the lights on the tree. I reflect on the past year, and make a plan for the new year. Then, when the kids get up, I'll wake up Slug and we'll open gifts. Then we relax, and watch a movie until it's time to make the holiday meal.

* Do you like snow?
I love snow, but I rarely get to see it.

* Does it snow/get cold where you live?
No

* Is Christmas your favorite holiday? If not, then what is?
Yes

Challenging Questions (Post an answer if you would like to. First 5 to answer correctly get free reputation.)
* Why do we kiss under the mistletoe?
Mistletoe gives us an excuse to kiss people other than our spouses and relatives and not get in trouble.

* Why do we give people presents on Christmas?
Giving a gift makes us feel good

* Why are Christmas colors red, white, and green?
Red for poinsettias, white for snow, and green for the candied fruit in the fruitcake

* Where does Christmas come from?
The catholic church, I think.

* Why does Santa Claus deliver presents?
It's a job with a lot of downtime. The rest of the year he vacations in Aruba and plays golf, I'm sure.

* Why do we decorate a Christmas tree?
Sometimes I don't. I just put lights on it.

* How come we use Christmas stockings?
It was natural, we had the socks drying on the fireplace anyway, why not put the goods in there?

* Describe the origination of Hanukkah and Kwanzaa. What do recipients do on their day(s) of celebration?
They share gifts and food with loved ones, too.

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Swan

CIA Spook

12-24-08

Christmas is my favorite time of the year.

Today I discovered a very strange Christmas song... but I like it!

7thson

Msg

AMC Ape

12-24-08

Wanted to wish everyone a Merry Christmas, and to thank all you MOFOS for listening to my complaints and problems and such. I am proud to be part of such a great community.

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igor_is_fugly

"A film is a putrified fountain of thought"

12-24-08

Originally Posted by Holden Pike

Why does Santa Claus deliver presents?

Obviously because he's a stinkin' Pinko Commie Socialist. Much like Barack Obama.

Thanks for that, I laughed out loud

igor_is_fugly

"A film is a putrified fountain of thought"

12-24-08

Essential Questions (Post an answer if you would like to)
* What are your top 10 favorite Christmas movies?
1. Gremlins
2. A Christmas Story
3. Die Hard
4. Christmas Vacation
5. Just Friends
6. How The Grinch Stole Christmas(1966)
7. Nightmare Before Christmas
8. Home For the Holidays
9. It's a Wonderful Life
10. Dumb and Dumber

* What has always been one of your favorite Christmas traditions?
Putting up the tree is possibly my favorite part of Christmas. We have so many ornaments we have to double up on the branches and the tree starts to sag and they're all crappy ones we made in school or people got us for gifts when they didn't want to actually put any effort into it. I love it!

* Do you believe in Santa Claus?
Obviously, who else would that be taking pictures with small children at the mall?

* What's the best/favorite present you have received?
My rhapsody player. I love it and use it everyday.

* Do you remember your first Christmas?
Nope

* Do you leave cookies and milk out for Santa Claus?
Of course, and carrots for the reindeer.

* What do you plan to do on Christmas Day?
Wake up at mom's, breakfast and hot chocolate, stockings, presents, drive to dad's, stockings and presents all over again, cook, eat, utalize new presents, sleep. Perfect Christmas.

* Do you like snow?
I love it when it's falling just not when it turns into mush.

* Does it snow/get cold where you live?
Minnesota...yea...

* Is Christmas your favorite holiday? If not, then what is?
Christmas or Thanksgiving. My dad goes all out with cooking and I love food.

Caitlyn