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Hah. Our community chorus did "'Zat you, Santa Claus?" last year.

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You keep this up, you're gonna have find out if "Smoovevecchiojohn" works as a handle.

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Just as an aside, and I'm sure you already know this, "Tannenbaum" does not mean "Christmas Tree".

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Much, much too late.

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Thank you for lettin' me be pony elf again.

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Danes are not notoriously Xianist, on average.

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I think you can only depict the FSM in a seasonally appropriate gravy. But maybe that's just me.

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Hmm, as I remember it, that would be trying to rip Joseph's arm off while screaming for an epidural, but six to one.

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The Grinch.

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You know how long I've been on 125?

Actually, neither do I. It's been a while, but who the fuck cares?

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It's when the aristocrats feel good by giving unwanted leftovers to the poorz.

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This was pretty traditional in Milwaukee when I was a sprog. Mostly Jews rather than Muslims in those days, but a lot of shift-changing. At the time, I remember thinking "How Christian of them".

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I'm 66. By the time I was twenty, Bob Hope had stopped being funny, and gone into recycling. It's possible that he was once funny, but the only times I ever watched a Road to Anywhere movie was on very-late-night stone-o-vision, so I cannot have an opinion.

I have to say, though, that I saw him in a USO show in Fairbanks, and while his shtick was tired, and not in any way witty, his comedic timing was fucking impeccable. He got me to laugh -- honestly laugh -- at the stupidest fucking "jokes". It was a real lesson in technique versus substance.

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it has something to do with that HBO show, Being Mike Tyson

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It's the Third Day of Festivus, the day for feats of strength. So go out tomorrow and box with everyone you see.

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