Reindeer Rock Open Thread

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— Gabriele Corno (@Gabriele_Corno) December 16, 2024

Posted by: Ace at 03:30 PM

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1 Hola

Posted by: Thanatopsis at December 25, 2024 03:31 PM (e00aV)

2
The Waitresses!

HQ Tradition lives on!

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 25, 2024 03:32 PM (YQOEL)

3 Hola straight vez.

Posted by: Thanatopsis at December 25, 2024 03:32 PM (e00aV)

4 Heh. He said Cornholio. Heh.

Posted by: Beavis at December 25, 2024 03:33 PM (mH6SG)

5 Dammit. Not first.

Posted by: BCochran1981 at December 25, 2024 03:33 PM (tKNHW)

6 1.5 hours until dinner. Still have stuff to prepare. Sheesh.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at December 25, 2024 03:34 PM (E7mWg)

7 Santa Claus is coming on a boogie woogie choo Choo train!

Posted by: Ben Had at December 25, 2024 03:34 PM (XTmTf)

8 OTRA vez! Damned autosuck

Posted by: Thanatopsis at December 25, 2024 03:34 PM (e00aV)

9 BCochran, how very nice to see you.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 25, 2024 03:36 PM (XTmTf)

10 Also had a Chemistry Set and you could go down to the Woolworth and by chemicals in a bottle. Bought Potassium Nitrate, Sulfur, and crushed charcoal to make my own gun powder. I did not grow up to be the Unabomber and a Leftwing Anti-Vietnam Protester freak either.

And I did not make any bombs and anything dangerous other than to myself through the old fashion learning process. Imagine that???

Posted by: Ferd Berfall at December 25, 2024 03:36 PM (FDlb9)

11 Why is a foot a good Christmas present?

Because it makes a good stocking filler

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 25, 2024 03:37 PM (JvXtq)

12 BCochran, ditto what Ben Had said. Don't be so scarce, huh? Merry Christmas!

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 25, 2024 03:37 PM (OX9vb)

13 soothsayer, I thought I had it covered because I posted it the day after thanksgiving but you said you hadn't seen it so I added it.

Posted by: ace at December 25, 2024 03:37 PM (KRtlO)

14 Hey Ben! I’ve been popping in and out the last 24 hours. It’s good to see everyone.

Posted by: BCochran1981 at December 25, 2024 03:38 PM (moA/t)

15 Willowed: Johnny Eagle Lieutenant guns.

Man from UNCLE guns.

I had a one track wish list.
Posted by: Archer at December 25, 2024

***
I had one of the former (looked like a Colt 1911, right?) and two different sets of the latter. Ideal issued a simple "Napoleon Solo Gun," the cap pistol itself, with U.N.C.L.E. ID card and pics of Robert Vaughn in character ont he box.
Also they had the complete Special, with a scope, shoulder stock, and barrel extension. No magazine extension, but then the gun itself, disappointingly, did not look like a Walther P-38 anyway.

Earlier, during my Westerns phase, I'd had several Mattel versions of the Colt Single Action Army w/ plastic grips painted like carved bone and with the two part bullets that worked just like the real thing. A cap on the flat base banged as the hammer came down, and the plastic "bullet" left the brass cartridge and flew out the barrel. Of course we lost the plastic bullets early, but the guns still loaded and fired.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 25, 2024 03:38 PM (omVj0)

16 Been getting for a few days a YouTube about the Waitresses, and none looking like fans

Posted by: Skip at December 25, 2024 03:38 PM (fwDg9)

17 >>>I had one of the former (looked like a Colt 1911, right?) and two different sets of the latter. Ideal issued a simple "Napoleon Solo Gun," the cap pistol itself, with U.N.C.L.E. ID card and pics of Robert Vaughn in character ont he box.
Also they had the complete Special, with a scope, shoulder stock, and barrel extension. No magazine extension, but then the gun itself, disappointingly, did not look like a Walther P-38 anyway.

cool, i always wanted one of those UNCLE guns.

Posted by: ace at December 25, 2024 03:39 PM (KRtlO)

18 Santa Claus is coming on a boogie woogie choo Choo train! Posted by: Ben Had

It isn't a train but it will have to do.
https://youtu.be/nSmvHPG9MD4

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at December 25, 2024 03:39 PM (Q8Bj8)

19 Hanging in

Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at December 25, 2024 03:39 PM (w3u3d)

20 i had an electronics kit and I'm ashamed to say I never did anything beyond making a light light up with an accompanying sound.

Posted by: ace at December 25, 2024 03:39 PM (KRtlO)

21 And just posted downstairs
Only a couple minutes left of the Queens College Ancient Choir version of Handel's Messiah, 2 hours and 18 minutes so expecting to see some orchestra members to collapse.

Posted by: Skip at December 25, 2024 03:39 PM (fwDg9)

22 That reindeer has a mask on? Worried about covid or it biting people?

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 25, 2024 03:40 PM (sAmhv)

23 I didn't like erector sets but I had a Girder and Panel bridge-making kit and building-making kit. They were pretty awesome.

Posted by: ace at December 25, 2024 03:40 PM (KRtlO)

24 Girder and Panel building set

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwaLjGP6Pus

the bridge set was better

Posted by: ace at December 25, 2024 03:41 PM (KRtlO)

25 Here's Chuck Berry's "Run, Rudolph, Run" as covered by the Canadian rock band Crowbar:

https://youtu.be/5B3w5aZsP1g

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 25, 2024 03:41 PM (8zz6B)

26 ace, Merry Christmas and thank you for this amazing community.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 25, 2024 03:41 PM (XTmTf)

27 Merry Christmas to you, Ben Had, and thank you for making this community what it is.

Posted by: ace at December 25, 2024 03:42 PM (KRtlO)

28 I am cooking by nose today, at three hours in magic starting to happen. Nose is saying, "so close, but not yet." I am cooking a bottom round roast at 250 degrees in the oven because it was too big for the crock-pot.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at December 25, 2024 03:43 PM (Q8Bj8)

29
2 hours and 18 minutes so expecting to see some orchestra members to collapse.
Posted by: Skip at December 25, 2024 03:39 PM (fwDg9)

__________

Götterdämmerung clocks in a 5 hours. At one performance at the Met, a violinist was seen to lean forward and kiss the last page of his part.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 25, 2024 03:43 PM (dxSpM)

30 ace, Merry Christmas and thank you for this amazing community.

Yes.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at December 25, 2024 03:43 PM (mH6SG)

31 Santa Claus is coming on a boogie woogie choo Choo train!
Posted by: Ben Had at December 25, 2024 03:34 PM (XTmTf)

https://youtu.be/iYO8mrsgw9g

Santa Claus Boogie!
https://youtu.be/aUrWFBfz3SM

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 25, 2024 03:44 PM (VNX3d)

32 ace, Merry Christmas and thank you for this amazing community

DITTO!

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 25, 2024 03:44 PM (JkO4W)

33 Dorothy Parker's, "Prayer for a New Mother":

The things she knew, let her forget again --
The voices in the sky, the fear, the cold,
the gaping shepherds, and the queer old men
Piling their clumsy gifts of foreign gold.

Let her have laughter with her little one;
Teach her the endless, tuneless songs to sing,
Grant her her right to whisper to her son
The foolish names one dare not call a king.

Keep from her dreams the rumble of a crowd,
The smell of rough-cut wood, the trail of red,
The thick and chilly whiteness of the shroud
That wraps the strange new body of the dead.

Ah, let her go, kind Lord, where mothers go
And boast his pretty words and ways, and plan
The proud and happy years that they shall know
Together, when her son is grown a man.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 25, 2024 03:44 PM (omVj0)

34 Mr. Dmlw! and I are continuing our Christmas tradition of watching World's Strongest Man Competition marathon. Hands down my favorite thing on television.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 25, 2024 03:45 PM (OX9vb)

35 Merry Christmas, Ace. It’s been roughly 15 years I’ve been in and out around here. Been a blast and made some great friends. Thank you.

Posted by: BCochran1981 at December 25, 2024 03:46 PM (DX6IT)

36 And the “NY Post” has the best headlines. Maybe J.J. Had this in his morning report
It’s about American Airline travel delays- and yes, I feel badly from people getting delayed from seeing loved ones. I still think the headline is darkly amusing:

How the glitch slowed Christmas .

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 25, 2024 03:46 PM (ZpVYH)

37 17 >>>I had one of the former (looked like a Colt 1911, right?) and two different sets of the latter. Ideal issued a simple "Napoleon Solo Gun," the cap pistol itself, with U.N.C.L.E. ID card and pics of Robert Vaughn in character ont he box.

friend of mine had an u.n.c.l.e. camera that would transform into a gun, way before transformers were a thing. we didn't have a tv, so i had no clue about it.

he also had a green hornet toy car. i also had no clue about that.

clearly, i was deprived. maybe i should seek therapy.

Posted by: anachronda at December 25, 2024 03:47 PM (IKg+A)

38
ace, Merry Christmas and thank you for this amazing community

DITTO!
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)

__________

For a bunch of cranks, impecunious layabouts, dipsomaniacs, wastrels, depressives, loudmouths and poseurs, we do very well.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 25, 2024 03:47 PM (dxSpM)

39 >>>friend of mine had an u.n.c.l.e. camera that would transform into a gun, way before transformers were a thing. we didn't have a tv, so i had no clue about it.

my brother had a robot that turned into a tape recorder (for some reason)

Posted by: ace at December 25, 2024 03:47 PM (KRtlO)

40 The grandkids have torn through all their present and are now... "bored."

Because grandma got them clothes.

I think it's time for another Bourbon.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 25, 2024 03:48 PM (Q4IgG)

41 Ran around yesterday for some last minute shopping and realized I just used up both packing tapes.

Other than that … Merry Christmas.

Posted by: Adriane the If it Weren t for Bad Timing, Id have no Time at All Critic . . . at December 25, 2024 03:48 PM (qz+gL)

42 While having brunch today, watched a deer hobble across the neighbors yard. Front left leg appeared to be injured/broken. Made it across the street and into the woods. Kind of a bummer.

Posted by: olddog in mo at December 25, 2024 03:48 PM (hoCmQ)

43 Watching a replay of a LIV golf tournament. It's at the course Trump owns in NoVA, along the Potomac. Lovely area. I think this was a couple of years ago.

I forgot the Steelers were playing today. I see I'm not missing much. They're getting crushed. I guess they hit that wall where the talent will go as far as it can. They'll be one and done in the playoffs.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 25, 2024 03:49 PM (sAmhv)

44 24 Girder and Panel building set

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwaLjGP6Pus

the bridge set was better
Posted by: ace at December 25, 2024 03:41 PM (KRtlO)

My brother had a few of those growing up. I remember the bridge set.

Merry Christmas, all!

Posted by: Joe Kidd at December 25, 2024 03:49 PM (Cbio9)

45 There are two others by Dorothy about Jesus, "The Gentlest Lady" and "The Maid-Servant at the Inn." Each is a little long to go into a gray box here, I think. But they are worth looking up. Good for today.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 25, 2024 03:49 PM (omVj0)

46 Finally.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 25, 2024 03:49 PM (LkLld)

47 For a bunch of cranks, impecunious layabouts, dipsomaniacs, wastrels, depressives, loudmouths and poseurs, we do very well.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 25, 2024 03:47 PM (dxSpM)

You left out the punsters, pedants and penguin aficionados.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 25, 2024 03:50 PM (muwun)

48 At Denny's. Busy! Lots of kids wearing Christmas themed pajamas. Some adults are too.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at December 25, 2024 03:51 PM (ctJ5/)

49 My cousin had a toy Colt Walker, ever since then wanted a replica cap and balk pistol

Posted by: Skip at December 25, 2024 03:52 PM (fwDg9)

50 I forgot the Steelers were playing today. I see I'm not missing much. They're getting crushed. I guess they hit that wall where the talent will go as far as it can. They'll be one and done in the playoffs.
Posted by: Puddleglum

The Steelers are enjoying all the reasons Denver ate his $250 million contract to get rid of him.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at December 25, 2024 03:52 PM (Q8Bj8)

51 Merry Christmas, Ace. Thanks for hosting the most entertaining and informative comment section in the www.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 25, 2024 03:53 PM (OX9vb)

52 For a bunch of cranks, impecunious layabouts, dipsomaniacs, wastrels, depressives, loudmouths and poseurs, we do very well.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

You left out the punsters, pedants and penguin aficionados.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)

Hel … loooooooooo.

Posted by: The Methodists at December 25, 2024 03:53 PM (qz+gL)

53 friend of mine had an u.n.c.l.e. camera that would transform into a gun, way before transformers were a thing. we didn't have a tv, so i had no clue about it.

he also had a green hornet toy car. i also had no clue about that.

clearly, i was deprived. maybe i should seek therapy.
Posted by: anachronda at December 25, 2024

***
I had a dim memory of transforming toys like that, but I think they were part of a Mattel line called "Secret Agent Zero-M," or something like that. The young Kurt Russell did TV commercials for them: https://tinyurl.com/9j2hfjhk

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 25, 2024 03:53 PM (omVj0)

54 Tough call today: Bourbon, Scotch, Irish, or Rye. Canadian is not on the list because of reasons.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at December 25, 2024 03:54 PM (Q8Bj8)

55 From a trip to Gettysburg had for a long time a musket that would fire caps

Posted by: Skip at December 25, 2024 03:54 PM (fwDg9)

56 Just got around to checking here today, so this is late but Merry Christmas to all of you. Enjoy your loved ones, drink some eggnog, and watch "Lethal Weapon"

Posted by: UGAdawg at December 25, 2024 03:55 PM (tRd71)

57 Going to go visit my parents and aunt and uncle
Back in a bit

Posted by: Skip at December 25, 2024 03:57 PM (fwDg9)

58 Tough call today: Bourbon, Scotch, Irish, or Rye. Canadian is not on the list because of reasons.
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at December 25, 2024 03:54 PM (Q8Bj

I've dropped Irish since its despicable recent insult to Israel. So Scotch it is.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 25, 2024 03:57 PM (muwun)

59 I've put the food from the pig into the oven: a nine-pound ham, sliced and cooked, but it will take two hours to heat. I've set my running stopwatch to keep track of the time. In the meantime, I'm having a couple of crackers. This afternoon, cool and damp, would be perfect for a pipe; but I've had one today and don't really feel like another.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 25, 2024 03:57 PM (omVj0)

60 Merry Christmas to you, UGAdawg!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 25, 2024 03:58 PM (sSkcu)

61 Well, Merry Christmas hordelings. Got to get ready for work in the electronic salt mines of the five sided nut house along the Potomac. I'll check in over the shift, now and then.

Later.....

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 25, 2024 03:58 PM (sAmhv)

62 One of my worst Christmas disappointments was getting my first real bike and realizing it was not a Schwinn. This moment prepared me for the Rolling Stones and "You Can't Always Get What You Want." After that song I went into my macramé and all-natural phase until I decided plastic packaging was the way to go.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at December 25, 2024 03:58 PM (Q8Bj8)

63
I've dropped Irish since its despicable recent insult to Israel.

________

Just being Irish would suffice as a reason.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 25, 2024 03:59 PM (dxSpM)

64 Man from UNCLE guns ...

When I was a kid, I recall one of those guns was in the shape of one those multi-band portable radios. One moment, it looked like a tablet-sized radio, then you push a button and the barrel pops out of one side, a stock folds out on the other side, the trigger and receiver pop out of the bottom, and you use the handle as a sight.

Awesome and very fragile. It wasn't mine (very expensive).

Posted by: mrp at December 25, 2024 04:00 PM (rj6Yv)

65 Girder and Panel building set

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwaLjGP6Pus

the bridge set was better
Posted by: ace
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See my willowed post, 207, previous thread.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 25, 2024 04:00 PM (XeU6L)

66 ...Christmas 1968, from the far side of the Moon with Earth entirely hidden from view, the Apollo 8 spacecraft ignited its SPS engine to return to Earth.

James Lovell radioed back to mission control: "Please be informed there is a Santa Claus," as they began their way home. …

more & pic:
https://tinyurl.com/3z8nzjvn

Merry Christmas

Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others _ at December 25, 2024 04:01 PM (w/3ky)

67 I've dropped Irish since its despicable recent insult to Israel. So Scotch it is. Posted by: Cicero

Scotch it was and Scotch it will be my friend. I am about to get into my bottle of Colkegan whiskey distilled here in NM and "peated" with mesquite. They can't call it scotch but it is scotch. Plus 92 proof. It is divine and wild at the same time.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at December 25, 2024 04:02 PM (Q8Bj8)

68 Just got around to checking here today, so this is late but Merry Christmas to all of you. Enjoy your loved ones, drink some eggnog, and watch "Lethal Weapon"
Posted by: UGAdawg
--------

Well...it IS Christmas, so Merry Christmas!

Posted by: Mike Hammer, late of Ga Tech at December 25, 2024 04:03 PM (XeU6L)

69
Humility-Gratitude is all you need to know and ALL knowledge comes from God.
Plug into the Spirit and get HIGH
-Raggedy Hobo

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at December 25, 2024 04:04 PM (wDJaI)

70 ***
I had a dim memory of transforming toys like that, but I think they were part of a Mattel line called "Secret Agent Zero-M," or something like that. The young Kurt Russell did TV commercials for them: https://tinyurl.com/9j2hfjhk
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere
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I received a spring loaded cannon. The barrel was about a foot long and the shells were about three inches. It could shoot them about twenty feet.

Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others _ at December 25, 2024 04:05 PM (w/3ky)

71 Star Trek fans (not me, nowadays... I checked out after TNG) will be pleased to know that Star Trek: Discovery (aka "WokeTrek") has not only been canceled, it's been officially erased from the canon.

They've retconned it using the "alternate time line" method, so future Trek efforts won't need to take it into consideration.

At all.

Merry Christmas, all!

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 25, 2024 04:05 PM (W5ArC)

72 For a bunch of cranks, impecunious layabouts, dipsomaniacs, wastrels, depressives, loudmouths and poseurs, we do very well.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

You left out the punsters, pedants and penguin aficionados.
Posted by: Cicero
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I think of AoSHQ as a landscape of iniquity.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 25, 2024 04:05 PM (XeU6L)

73 Spent a lot of the day following AoSHQ linked stuff. Some very good, but it takes a while to go through it all!

Late for the toy thread. We had Tinkertoys and Lincoln logs, but my friend's family had those Kenner girder and panel sets, the older white plastic kind (called?), *and* erector sets. And an HO scale trainboard! Had a lot of fun with those.

Some of the can't-have-those-today toys I had:
❄ The vac-u-form, where you heated up a plastic sheet, flipped it over a form, and vacuumed the plastic to become a car or whatever.
❄ That toy where you cooked rubber bugs and worms out of plastic. Creepy crawlies or whatever it was.
❄ My favorite, a cotton-candy maker. Pour in the colored sugar, which was heated and spun into the bowl, where the paper cone was twirled. Soon ran out of the colored sugar, but found that regular sugar worked. That was great until my older brother decided to try jell-o. End of that toy. There's a list of toys older brother destroyed similarly. Including my first bike.

Merry Christmas, y'all.

Click on the nic link for a bunch of seasonal videos (and an eclectic playlist of those songs I've linked from my ONT sign-off comments all month).

Posted by: mindful webworker - baby c'mere and stand under this mistletoe at December 25, 2024 04:06 PM (09AS9)

74 2
The Waitresses!

HQ Tradition lives on!
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 25, 2024 03:32 PM (YQOEL)

A reminder to beg the smoker's you know to quit.

Posted by: jsg at December 25, 2024 04:06 PM (Fg0Nr)

75 Remember Marvel the Mustang? I never aspired to have one... frankly, it looked pretty crap as a toy.

The commercial jingle was catchy as hell, though. I still remember every word.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 25, 2024 04:06 PM (W5ArC)

76 > Creepy crawlies

There was a version called "Incredible Edibles" that made bugs and other disgusting stuff that you could actually eat.

A young Merrick Garland likely had one of those.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 25, 2024 04:07 PM (W5ArC)

77 I had a dim memory of transforming toys like that, but I think they were part of a Mattel line called "Secret Agent Zero-M," or something like that. The young Kurt Russell did TV commercials for them: https://tinyurl.com/9j2hfjhk
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere
>>

#64 I searched the internetz and found the portable radio gun. It was the Secret Agent Zero M Radio Rifle.

Posted by: mrp at December 25, 2024 04:09 PM (rj6Yv)

78 Man from UNCLE guns ...

When I was a kid, I recall one of those guns was in the shape of one those multi-band portable radios. One moment, it looked like a tablet-sized radio, then you push a button and the barrel pops out of one side, a stock folds out on the other side, the trigger and receiver pop out of the bottom, and you use the handle as a sight.

Awesome and very fragile. It wasn't mine (very expensive).
Posted by: mrp at December 25, 2024

***
I still think that was part of Mattel's Agent Zero-M line. If I'd seen an U.N.C.L.E. tie-in toy like that, I'd have wanted it.

The ID card that came with the Ideal gun sets looked fantastic. I carried it in my wallet for years until my wallet was stolen one day at college. I had little money in it and no credit cards or driver's license then, so it was a small loss. But I missed the card most of all.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 25, 2024 04:09 PM (omVj0)

79 mindful webworker--

I had a Vac-u-form, a Creepy Crawlers, AND a cotton candy machine!! Fortunately I was an only child so I didn't have an older sibling to destroy things.

Posted by: Art Rondelet of Malmsey at December 25, 2024 04:11 PM (FEVMW)

80 Big Bang cannons. Several kids in the neighborhood had one. We would have battles in one kid's crawl space. The cannon flshes from the different dark corners were great! I still have this one, and the carbide:
t.ly/-eYCL

I also have the one that my dad had as a kid
t.ly/gXGlb

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 25, 2024 04:12 PM (XeU6L)

81 Off grid living

https://tinyurl.com/ye292mzz

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at December 25, 2024 04:12 PM (wDJaI)

82 When I was nine, I think, I received Mattel's talking dolls of Beany and Cecil the Seasick Sea Serpent from the Bob Clampett cartoon series. In time Beany vanished, but my mother kept Cecil, even though his cord-pull talking box had long gone mute, on a chair in her bedroom. Another item I wish I'd grabbed when I cleaned out her place after she died.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 25, 2024 04:12 PM (omVj0)

83 Posted by: mindful webworker - baby c'mere and stand under this mistletoe at December 25, 2024 04:06 PM (09AS9)

Thanks for the links.

And now I remember that I had one of those cotton candy makers.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 25, 2024 04:14 PM (S9oCJ)

84 My nose was right - I just pulled the slow roasted bottom round roast and stuff from the oven. Tender, a miracle, and tasty. Plus veggies. Plus scotch. Plus a nice fire. I may be on my own for Christmas but I am handily making due.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at December 25, 2024 04:14 PM (Q8Bj8)

85 Didn’t want any Man from Uncles toys, I wanted Ilya. The real one, not a toy.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at December 25, 2024 04:14 PM (2NHgQ)

86 1950s. Triang all metal toys. Japanese.
I still have a large red crane with 4 rubber wheels and the original string for cables. Can raise/lower the boom and raise/lower the lead hook (yes, lead as in Pb). I lost the removable bucket.
I also still have a large racing car (50s F1 type) with a Japanese-looking driver. The car makes a siren sound when pushed.

Posted by: Ciampino - Talking of glow in the dark at December 25, 2024 04:16 PM (i0xsb)

87 Christmas when I was ten, I had a cold and felt terrible. Tht year I received a Mattel gun and holster set (holster of tan-colored, "tooled" plastic), and the Hartland standing figure of Bat Masterson from the TV series. It was part of the Hartland "Gunfighters" range. Bat came wearing his trademark glossy vest, grey trousers (I think they were textured to have a faint pinstripe!), his string tie, and removable parts -- his derby hat, gun in belt holster, and his famous cane. The figure goes for some money now, and I can see why, as it's very good-looking.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 25, 2024 04:16 PM (omVj0)

88 Star Trek fans (not me, nowadays... I checked out after TNG) will be pleased to know that Star Trek: Discovery (aka "WokeTrek") has not only been canceled, it's been officially erased from the canon.

They've retconned it using the "alternate time line" method, so future Trek efforts won't need to take it into consideration.

At all.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 25, 2024 04:05 PM (W5ArC)
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Wasn't ST

(interesting abbreviation, BTW) already playing fast and loose with the Star Trek timeline? Makes sense that it wouldn't fit into the "official" canon.

Sadly, the Star Wars sequels are still considered "canon" I think.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 25, 2024 04:17 PM (BpYfr)

89 would be perfect for a pipe; but I've had one today and don't really feel like another.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Never stopped me!

Posted by: Cooter Brown, Flyin' High at December 25, 2024 04:18 PM (G5+As)

90 A school mate and I used a chemistry set to make a "fuel additive" and poured it into their maid's car. Ruined the motor. Oops.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at December 25, 2024 04:18 PM (ctJ5/)

91 I remember one Christmas where I got exactly what I wanted (5 speed with banana seat and sissy bar) and it ended up being the worst Christmas ever because you cannot ride a bike in MN in December. My little brother got ALL sorts of cool toys because he didn't get an expensive bike. I made everyone miserable with my plaintif cries and whiny warbling. Good times... good times.

Posted by: Life of Wryly at December 25, 2024 04:18 PM (1FWWQ)

92 My nose was right - I just pulled the slow roasted bottom round roast and stuff from the oven. Tender, a miracle, and tasty. Plus veggies. Plus scotch. Plus a nice fire. I may be on my own for Christmas but I am handily making due.
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at December 25, 2024 04:14 PM (Q8Bj

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A properly tuned nose can be an amazing instrument in cooking, helping you time things perfectly just by the aroma.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 25, 2024 04:19 PM (BpYfr)

93 Rum is the answer to all questions.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 25, 2024 04:19 PM (LkLld)

94 ...Christmas 1968, from the far side of the Moon with Earth entirely hidden from view, the Apollo 8 spacecraft ignited its SPS engine to return to Earth.

James Lovell radioed back to mission control: "Please be informed there is a Santa Claus," as they began their way home. …

A Christmas I will never forget.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at December 25, 2024 04:19 PM (mH6SG)

95 I received a spring loaded cannon. The barrel was about a foot long and the shells were about three inches. It could shoot them about twenty feet.
Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others _ at December 25, 2024 04:05 PM (w/3ky)

When I was a kid, the big thing was the Big Bang toy military howitzer that used carbide for the ... BANG. I was the victim of a Big Bang prank. Nearly lost an eye, but didn't because my Guardian Angel was on duty and on alert.

Posted by: mrp at December 25, 2024 04:19 PM (rj6Yv)

96 Didn’t want any Man from Uncles toys, I wanted Ilya. The real one, not a toy.
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at December 25, 2024

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You weren't alone, and you aren't even to this day. TV Guide did a piece on Illya and McCallum, quoting some fan as saying he was "the greatest thing since peanut butter and jelly."

Since I was on the other side of the fence, I wanted to *be* Napoleon Solo. Two years later when Stefanie Powers played April Dancer, the Girl From U.N.C.L.E., I wanted a girlfriend like her. (The show was awful, and I realized it even at the time. But she was great.)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 25, 2024 04:20 PM (omVj0)

97 "Christmas Rapping" and A Fairytale of New York are IMHO the best rock Christmas songs . Patti Donahue of the Waitresses was good looking but unfortunately died young

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 25, 2024 04:20 PM (URPU1)

98 Rum is the answer to all questions.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 25, 2024 04:19 PM (LkLld)
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Except "Why is the rum always gone?"

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at December 25, 2024 04:21 PM (6K6Eu)

99 I think of AoSHQ as a landscape of iniquity.
Posted by: Mike Hammer

Bad Blog for Bad People.

Posted by: The Cramps at December 25, 2024 04:21 PM (G5+As)

100 Family and I will have a hopefully good crock pot roast with vegetable , then we'll go visit an over the top light and inflatable display that a congregation member told me about . The kids of the couple are grown and out of the house , but the kind people keep it going because people enjoy it so. Then we'll return for
Apple tart and son and I will have Kaluha and crème.Then I think we'll watch a version of Dylan Thomas' "A child's Christmas in Wales" from the BBC.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 25, 2024 04:22 PM (qd34F)

101 Rum is the answer to all questions.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 25, 2024 04:19 PM (LkLld)
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Except "Why is the rum always gone?"
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at December 25, 2024 04:21 PM (6K6Eu)

Or, who the hell didn't replace the empty toilet paper roll? Just to spitball here.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 25, 2024 04:23 PM (muwun)

102
When I was a kid, the big thing was the Big Bang toy military howitzer that used carbide for the ... BANG. I was the victim of a Big Bang prank. Nearly lost an eye, but didn't because my Guardian Angel was on duty and on alert.
Posted by: mrp
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See 80

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 25, 2024 04:23 PM (XeU6L)

103 After eating of the pig, Miss Linda and I will try this film Remember the Night from 1939, a rom-com with a Christmas theme with Fred MacMurray and Barbara Stanwyck. It'll be hard for me to look at them outside their iconic roles in Double Indemnity, but I'll try.

The film is on Putlocker -- someone here put me on to it -- and I can mirror it on my TV. But the closed captions are very tiny when cast onto the big screen. We'll see how it goes.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 25, 2024 04:26 PM (omVj0)

104 The definitive Jingle Bell Rock - as performed by somebody cutting Trump together.

https://x.com/i/status/1738912435749134538

Posted by: DudeAbiding at December 25, 2024 04:26 PM (setIA)

105 Since I was on the other side of the fence, I wanted to *be* Napoleon Solo. Two years later when Stefanie Powers played April Dancer, the Girl From U.N.C.L.E., I wanted a girlfriend like her. (The show was awful, and I realized it even at the time. But she was great.)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 25, 2024 04:20 PM (omVj0)

She was no Honey West.

The character who caused never-before-experienced stirrings in my nine year-old loinal region.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 25, 2024 04:26 PM (muwun)

106 See 80
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 25, 2024 04:23 PM (XeU6L)

I deed. I deed. "Look down the barrel and see what's stopping the .. [bang]."

One of the many close calls in life.

Posted by: mrp at December 25, 2024 04:26 PM (rj6Yv)

107 Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 25, 2024 04:05 PM (W5ArC)

DS9 had some very good episodes. There's a father - son episode that was amazing.

And it was nice to see the Federation at war.

I actually liked Voyager too. 'Year of Hell' and the finale were great.

Posted by: Stateless at December 25, 2024 04:27 PM (jvJvP)

108 When I was 12, I got a Schwinn 5-Speed Collegiate on Christmas Eve. We had just moved from Brooklyn to Rockland County. I set off on Christmas Day alone on a 30 mile circuit of the local reservoirs and lakes even though it was 30 degrees and light snow/flurries. It was fun!

Posted by: Nordisk Tidende at December 25, 2024 04:27 PM (G5+As)

109 Big Bang cannons. Several kids in the neighborhood had one. We would have battles in one kid's crawl space. The cannon flshes from the different dark corners were great! I still have this one, and the carbide:
t.ly/-eYCL

Posted by: Mike Hammer

Those were so much until one 4th of July we figured we could wrap the "safe and sane" Whistling Pete fireworks in duct tape which produced a highly entertaining version of dynamite.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at December 25, 2024 04:28 PM (Q8Bj8)

110 I thought maybe I got a bit carried away with the bacon. Compound butter with bacon on the rib roast, cheesy mashed potatoes with bacon, green beans with bacon, and then I realized.

No, I didn't get enough bacon.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 25, 2024 04:29 PM (LkLld)

111 Rum is the answer to all questions.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 25, 2024 04:19 PM (LkLld)
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Except "Why is the rum always gone?"
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at December 25, 2024 04:21 PM (6K6Eu)

Or, who the hell didn't replace the empty toilet paper roll? Just to spitball here.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 25, 2024 04:23 PM (muwun)

Rum might explain why no one replaced it, though.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 25, 2024 04:29 PM (VNX3d)

112 Two years later when Stefanie Powers played April Dancer, the Girl From U.N.C.L.E., I wanted a girlfriend like her. (The show was awful, and I realized it even at the time. But she was great.)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 25, 2024
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She was no Honey West.

The character who caused never-before-experienced stirrings in my nine year-old loinal region.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 25, 2024

***
True. Anne Francis as Honey built the blueprint for TV female action stars. Girl From ignored that blueprint, unfortunately, or it would have been a better show. I got to see some of the Honey West episodes on Decades a few years ago, and they were fast-moving (it was a half-hour show) and entertaining.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 25, 2024 04:29 PM (omVj0)

113
Bad Blog for Bad People.
Posted by: The Cramps at December 25, 2024 04:21 PM (G5+As)

________

*grinds out cigarette on carpet*

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 25, 2024 04:29 PM (dxSpM)

114 I think of AoSHQ as a landscape of iniquity.
Posted by: Mike Hammer

Bad Blog for Bad People.
Posted by: The Cramps at December 25, 2024 04:21 PM (G5+As)

Are you claiming this is the Mos Eisley Spaceport of the Internet?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 25, 2024 04:30 PM (VNX3d)

115 The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly is on Grit this afternoon. It's funny, but I have never seen that film all the way through. So, whenever I turn it on, I see a segment of it that I have never watched before. And it's not that long a movie, not like Lonesome Dove or something. Odd.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 25, 2024 04:32 PM (omVj0)

116 Lights on.
-Ronald Reagan

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at December 25, 2024 04:32 PM (wDJaI)

117 Sounds lovely Fen. I had a bacon wrapped tenderloin filet and some scalloped potato thing. Filet was tasty even though I cooked it a bit too long. Luckily I have 3 more to work on my technique.

Posted by: PaleRider at December 25, 2024 04:32 PM (UKUm3)

118 Nood!

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 25, 2024 04:33 PM (a3Q+t)

119 I've got a toy muzzle loader cannon that was my grandpa's. It's got a touch hole but I don't know what to load it with or how. (Preemptive phrasing acknowledgment.)

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 25, 2024 04:34 PM (Dm8we)

120
She was no Honey West.

The character who caused never-before-experienced stirrings in my nine year-old loinal region.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 25, 2024 04:26 PM (muwun)

Penny from 'Lost in Space.' First actress crush.

Lydia Cornell from 'Too Close for Comfort.' Whoa.

Mary-Ann

Dyna-Girl from "Elektra Woman and Dyna-Girl."

And 'Wonder Woman" had a hot younger cousin.

Posted by: Stateless at December 25, 2024 04:36 PM (jvJvP)

121 Nood.

Posted by: Stateless at December 25, 2024 04:37 PM (jvJvP)

122 Posted by: PaleRider at December 25, 2024 04:32 PM (UKUm3)

Sounds delicious.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 25, 2024 05:00 PM (MQJVv)

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