More Christmas Triumph, Christmas Tragedy.

[Beth]

YAY I'll be in Montclair for Christmas! I can listen to the REAL radio in my car AND at home. Swweet!

[Dorvid Barnas]

Some of youse guys better be standing by with a stream-catching software or something next Tuesday, if Tom for some reason follows through with the threat of not archiving/podcasting the show.

I'm on it, son. 
Seasons greetings.

[Martin]

And to you, Dorvid. Good guys win.

[Jixby Phillips]

I consider this a Christmas Triumph:

One year when I was in high school I was insistent that I get a Civil War Calendar. It was an early foray into irony. I put it at the top of my list that year. I planned to make a funny video documenting the days leading up to me receiving the present, and I'd freak out upon opening it. This was before the Nintendo 64 kid (or the video of it becoming popular anyway). So don't go thinking it was me lampooning that.

So I get the calendar, and in addition to that I get a shitload of other Civil war stuff. I got a lot of Lincoln-themed shirts and mugs and stuff like that, all of which I still use.

Telling this story in the past, I've:

1. Gotten hugged by a girl (what?)
2. Been questioned why I was making a video. "What would you do with it?" younger people would ask. For some reason I'd have to explain to people that people made videos before youtube existed.

[Emily]

Jixby so have you uploaded it to youtube?


one of my prized possessions is a Lincoln bank bottle for pennies. it's a glass bottle with his face on the neck. his hat is the cap and it has a slit in it where you drop them in. I'm very cautious to only put pennies in it.

[Beth]

Christmas tragedy:

My high strung mother screaming and crying because I'll be arriving a little late this Christmas Eve.

Let this board be a witness, when I have kids I will never make them feel like crap around the holidays.

[dave from knoxville]

Christmas tragedy:

My high strung mother screaming and crying because I'll be arriving a little late this Christmas Eve.

Let this board be a witness, when I have kids I will never make them feel like crap around the holidays.

I'll take that bet.

[GetOffMyBone]

I consider this a Christmas Triumph:

One year when I was in high school I was insistent that I get a Civil War Calendar. It was an early foray into irony. I put it at the top of my list that year. I planned to make a funny video documenting the days leading up to me receiving the present, and I'd freak out upon opening it. This was before the Nintendo 64 kid (or the video of it becoming popular anyway). So don't go thinking it was me lampooning that.

So I get the calendar, and in addition to that I get a shitload of other Civil war stuff. I got a lot of Lincoln-themed shirts and mugs and stuff like that, all of which I still use.

Telling this story in the past, I've:

1. Gotten hugged by a girl (what?)
2. Been questioned why I was making a video. "What would you do with it?" younger people would ask. For some reason I'd have to explain to people that people made videos before youtube existed.

North Or South, man?

[samir]

I'm going to be taking every opportunity today to throw ham at dogs.

If that hasn't happened by showtime at 8pm, I'll consider today a waste and/or a failure.

[Dorvid Barnas]

I was just given a football sausage.  Triumphant or tragic, the jury's still out.

[dave from knoxville]

The two greatest gifts God gave to mankind, in one tacky package. It's a triumph, by GOD!

[Martin]

I wouldn't know what to do first - eat it or throw it. Solution: someone else throw it, you catch it - with your gob*!

* old-timey speak

[Tim K in DC]

I was just given a football sausage.  Triumphant or tragic, the jury's still out.

I say doubly triumphant: it's sausage, and once you eat it, it's one less football in the world.

[Beth]

Christmas tragedy:

My high strung mother screaming and crying because I'll be arriving a little late this Christmas Eve.

Let this board be a witness, when I have kids I will never make them feel like crap around the holidays.

I'll take that bet.

Dave, you most likely speak the truth. But until I have children, I'm going to live in blissful denial about the fact that yes, I am turning into my mother.

[Beth]

Also, a Christmas triumph. My boyfriend got me an exact replica of the red dress Buttercup wears in the Princess Bride!! It may sound nerdy to some but it's a triumph for me! I'll be doing so much frolicking in grassy fields this summer!