Ghosts of Christmas Past Open Thread

Lost traditions of the Christmas buying and decorating season -- Christmas savers' clubs, Christmas stamps, layaway plans, bubble lights, Humbold statues,

Various bits of Christmas specials and commercials and news reports from the 70s and 80s:

I can't believe I forgot to post these:

Posted by: Ace at 02:30 PM

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1 Mcuuc

Posted by: browndog sitting in the dark at December 25, 2025 02:30 PM (TTAGa)

2 3rd

Posted by: DBCooper at December 25, 2025 02:31 PM (+daAW)

3 We're nood.

Posted by: Noodists at December 25, 2025 02:33 PM (2Ez/1)

4 С Новым Годом!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 25, 2025 02:33 PM (93/YK)

5 What a frustration to be smelling a turkey cook and realize that there are two more hours before you can eat it.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 25, 2025 02:33 PM (0U5gm)

6 Be sure to drink your Ovaltine.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 25, 2025 02:34 PM (0sNs1)

7 Wrap wrap wrap. They called him the wrapper.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 25, 2025 02:34 PM (pkeXY)

8 Not me, man. I'm having roast beast and biscuits as soon as the biscuits are ready.

Posted by: MkY at December 25, 2025 02:35 PM (q6tQZ)

9 Can't wait for Skip to tell us who won the Christmas duel!

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at December 25, 2025 02:35 PM (XMwZJ)

10 Willowed:
Waiting for "The Man Who Came to Dinner" to start on TCM. One of my annual must watch Christmas movies. Pork loin with cranberry sauce is slow cooking in the crockpot. Smells wonderful.

Posted by: Tuna at December 25, 2025 02:35 PM (lJ0H4)

11 4 С Новым Годом!
Posted by: San Franpsycho

Oh, sure.
You come waltzing in here with your fancy fonts and your store bought underwear.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 25, 2025 02:35 PM (2Ez/1)

12 Everything else can set, biscuit's gotta be hot.

Posted by: MkY at December 25, 2025 02:36 PM (q6tQZ)

13 Humbold or Hummel?

Posted by: tankdemon at December 25, 2025 02:36 PM (/TlUl)

14
Waiting for "The Man Who Came to Dinner" to start on TCM. One of my annual must watch Christmas movies. Pork loin with cranberry sauce is slow cooking in the crockpot. Smells wonderful.
Posted by: Tuna

Don't forget the rye bread!

Posted by: Banjo at December 25, 2025 02:37 PM (pkeXY)

15 Sear Wishbook forced me to post this:

https://15minutelunch.blogspot.com/2008/08/
so-once-upon-time-i-found-this-catalog.html

Posted by: r hennigantx at December 25, 2025 02:37 PM (gbOdA)

16 С Новым Годом!

Posted by: San Franpsycho

И тебе!

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 25, 2025 02:37 PM (0U5gm)

17 Duncanthrax, I still have the pictures of Ace, the darling girl, and the Christmas tree.

You bring me joy all year long.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 25, 2025 02:37 PM (sDNVV)

18 You come waltzing in here with your fancy fonts and your store bought underwear.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 25, 2025 02:35 PM (2Ez/1)
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Sure Store bought for my two older brothers, not me

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 25, 2025 02:38 PM (93/YK)

19 Ace, thank you and Merry Christmas.

Posted by: tankdemon at December 25, 2025 02:38 PM (/TlUl)

20 И тебе!
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 25, 2025 02:37 PM (0U5gm)

*clinks shot glasses*

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 25, 2025 02:38 PM (93/YK)

21 Humbold or Hummel?

Posted by: tankdemon

My grandmother collected Hummel figurines. When she died, each grandchild received two of them. Mine still have the 'made in West Germany' labels.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 25, 2025 02:40 PM (0U5gm)

22 I've gone from lay-a-way to lay-a-bout. Shiftless, entitled, lazy, fit only to be on the front porch on Hee-Haw.

Posted by: Intern of Junior Samples at December 25, 2025 02:40 PM (oftw2)

23 Wishing Ace and the cobs and the horde a super sparkly very Merry Christmas . . . or, as I'm currently thinking of it, extra beer Thursday. xxx to all!

Posted by: Peaches at December 25, 2025 02:41 PM (2HfbY)

24 Traditions past . My whole family would gather at Christmas and with 125 people we rented a hall to gather in. Family is mostly all gone so I get my Christmas in October at the TXMoMe with my now family.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 25, 2025 02:41 PM (sDNVV)

25 Patty Donahue lead singer of The Waitresses. Good looking lady. Died at 40 from lung cancer. Too young

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 25, 2025 02:41 PM (2vrAX)

26 We just had an awesome Christmas dinner. Prime Rib with Yorkshire Pudding, Spiced Lamb with Mint Sauce, White Gazpacho, various great sides, Sidecar and Last Word cocktails. Upcoming Pecan and Sweet Potato pies.

BONUS! Everybody at home.

Very nice. God has been very kind this year.

Merry Christmas Y'all!

Posted by: naturalfake at December 25, 2025 02:41 PM (iJfKG)

27 Have I missed the annual posting of DaveinTexas' Crap Christmas Tree?

Posted by: NAOYV at December 25, 2025 02:42 PM (7zbO8)

28 Mine still have the 'made in West Germany' labels.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 25, 2025 02:40 PM (0U5gm)

But we never tried real socialasm.

Posted by: Progressives at December 25, 2025 02:43 PM (gbOdA)

29 I'm tempted to sneak a slice of mincemeat pie before the turkey is done.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 25, 2025 02:43 PM (0U5gm)

30 I invested big time in pumpkins, pumpkin spice, and Christmas trees and can't give them away now.

Posted by: Savvy Mover And Shaker at December 25, 2025 02:44 PM (oftw2)

31 Different setting for "Angels We Have Heard on High".
Dan Vasc on the Tube does a heavy metal version; not what it actually sounds like but very interesting--and different.

Posted by: Lirio100 at December 25, 2025 02:44 PM (ky7/T)

32 I'm tempted to sneak a slice of mincemeat pie before the turkey is done.
Posted by: Thomas Paine

I love mincemeat pie! Yum. I've got key lime cheesecake for dessert. Fresh raspberries on the side.

Posted by: Tuna at December 25, 2025 02:46 PM (lJ0H4)

33 I'll bite... Humbold statues? Maybe, Hummel figurines?

Posted by: olddog in mo at December 25, 2025 02:47 PM (bQ4nt)

34 Afternoon.

Merry Christmas, Horde.

My short review got enstompinated.

So I just finished watching the George C. Scott version of A Christmas Carol.

*Ahem*

Scrooge was right.

Oh, sure, he was an asshole. No one likes assholes. But he was right. And honest. He told his honest opinions and you knew where he stood. That's not a bad thing. That's a very good thing. Lots of people whisper sweet nothings into your ear before stabbing you in the back. Scrooge never did that. Except for being a blunt asshole Scrooge never did anything wrong. The Ghosts of Christmas were just a bunch of guilt tripping motherfuckers.

Bob Cratchett was okay. Nice guy. Bit of a cuck.

Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at December 25, 2025 02:47 PM (1Yy3c)

35 TV on Christmas used to be amusing due to technical errors, less experienced personnel at the wheel.
But with robots doing everything now, why does the video go dark after every chiron?

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 25, 2025 02:49 PM (Kt19C)

36 21 My grandmother collected Hummel figurines. When she died, each grandchild received two of them. Mine still have the 'made in West Germany' labels.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 25, 2025 02:40 PM (0U5gm)

I thought all Hummel figurines looked like characters in a fairy tale. My mother loves them.

Posted by: tankdemon at December 25, 2025 02:50 PM (/TlUl)

37
The Ghosts of Christmas were just a bunch of guilt tripping motherfuckers.

__________

That scene in the cemetery in Mr. Magoo's Christmas used to scare the hell out of me.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 25, 2025 02:51 PM (tgvbd)

38 You come waltzing in here with your fancy fonts and your store bought underwear.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty

Peasant (waving a turnip threateningly):
We used to DREAM of underwear! We had to make do with a bit of old sacking tied round the nethers with some string what the lord's horse threw up last Michaelmas! And you had to be grateful! "Thank you, oh mighty string!" we'd cry, while the wind whistled through our unmentionables like the Black Death on horseback!
Peasant 2 (nodding vigorously, face smeared with soot):
Aye! And when we wanted to feel fancy, we'd rub ourselves down with a handful of nettles just to get that warm tingly feeling. Luxury! Proper stinging luxury, that was. None of your soft, silky smallclothes for the likes of us!
Peasant 3 Well... it was only once... and it was more of a loin-rag really... and the rats ate most of it...
Peasant 1: RATS ate it?! You had RATS?! We could only dream of rats! We had to make do with imaginary vermin to keep us company at night! We'd lie there in the freezing muck saying, "Come on, imaginary flea, bite me proper! Make me feel alive!" And you had real rats nibbling your actual underwear. You lucky, lucky sod!

Posted by: Tonypete at December 25, 2025 02:51 PM (cYBz/)

39 Your Humbold statues should fetch $2 each on the open market.

Posted by: Antiques Roadshow at December 25, 2025 02:51 PM (JkO4W)

40 I miss DaveinTexas, like so many of our friends now, gone to soon.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 25, 2025 02:52 PM (xTuYU)

41 26 We just had an awesome Christmas dinner. Prime Rib with Yorkshire Pudding, Spiced Lamb with Mint Sauce, White Gazpacho, various great sides, Sidecar and Last Word cocktails. Upcoming Pecan and Sweet Potato pies.

BONUS! Everybody at home.

Very nice. God has been very kind this year.

Merry Christmas Y'all!
Posted by: naturalfake at December 25, 2025 02:41 PM (iJfKG)

Sounds yummy. Chinese canceled our Christmas Story dinner (they ran out of duck), so staying in the spirit, we have an amazing takeout Indian and Nepalese coming - lamb, chicken, shrimp, and vegan foods ordered (1/2 for my allergies and half not b/c it's Christmas and I wasn't keeping my kids from butter chicken and lamb kadai or acres of naan)...

Here's hoping order #2, which even gave me 20% off for Christmas, works out. I had offered the kids traditional Italian Christmas (pasta and meat sauce), but they begged for the Indian and who am I to say no to a deal for a restaurant that wants me to buy their food this holiday?

Posted by: Nova Local at December 25, 2025 02:54 PM (tOcjL)

42 That scene in the cemetery in Mr. Magoo's Christmas used to scare the hell out of me.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

The ghost of Christmas future from the George C. Scott version scared the heck out of my son when he was little.

Posted by: Tuna at December 25, 2025 02:55 PM (lJ0H4)

43 Those Vuvuzula boats are connected, if you're paying attention

@WilliamYang120
The Chinese military has simulated battles near Mexico and Cuba during a wargaming exercise – a rare insight revealed in a report on state television.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 25, 2025 02:56 PM (mlg/3)

44 {{{{{ Ben Had }}}}}

Y'all are an amazing treasure for all of us here!

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 25, 2025 02:59 PM (0sNs1)

45 Peaches! What a nice Christmas treat. Hope you had a nice Hannukah. You inspired me to enjoy a beer just now.

Posted by: PaleRider at December 25, 2025 03:02 PM (hhkIi)

46 Franpsycho, sure go flaunting your Cyrillic font.

But (transliterated) it's "C dnyom rozhdeniya khristovim" today, I think.

New Year's is 7 days away.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 25, 2025 03:03 PM (U/Byj)

47 My parents always had a white Christmas tree. Does that make me a racist?

Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 25, 2025 03:03 PM (abIsI)

48 We will watch that George C. Scott version of A Christmas Carol in a while. I liked that one also.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 25, 2025 03:03 PM (rghSL)

49 If you enjoy Dickens with a twist watch Dickensian.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 25, 2025 03:05 PM (sDNVV)

50 My parents always had a white Christmas tree. Does that make me a racist?

Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 25, 2025 03:03 PM (abIsI)

Did you listen to Jingle Bells or one of those songs wipipo like while you looked at the tree?

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 25, 2025 03:06 PM (rghSL)

51 My parents always had a white Christmas tree. Does that make me a racist?
Posted by: Maj. Healey

Decidedly not!! If they had the red/green/blue/yellow spinning light wheel they were embracing DEI.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 25, 2025 03:06 PM (cYBz/)

52 Early 70's neighbors had an aluminum Christmas tree. They shined one of those spinning light color changing thingies on it. I wasn't impressed. Very cold feeling.

Posted by: olddog in mo at December 25, 2025 03:07 PM (bQ4nt)

53 50 My parents always had a white Christmas tree. Does that make me a racist?

Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 25, 2025 03:03 PM (abIsI)

Did you listen to Jingle Bells or one of those songs wipipo like while you looked at the tree?
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary

Yes, as well as religious carols.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 25, 2025 03:07 PM (abIsI)

54 45 Peaches! What a nice Christmas treat. Hope you had a nice Hannukah. You inspired me to enjoy a beer just now.

Posted by: PaleRider at December 25, 2025 03:02 PM (hhkIi)

Oh, bless your heart and thank you for the hearty guffaw. I'm not Jewish (although I do identify as a Zionist), I've simply outlived my relevance and (mostly) my cats. But, hey, skol!

Posted by: Peaches at December 25, 2025 03:07 PM (2HfbY)

55 NaCly, dearest. I receive so much more than I can ever give.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 25, 2025 03:08 PM (sDNVV)

56 We went to Christmas Eve candlelight last night. Aside from the junior pastor getting the stage and haranguing the attendees it was really good. The young pup needs to dial it back for Christmas Eve.

Posted by: tubal at December 25, 2025 03:08 PM (pDt9x)

57 I think I OD’d on scungili. I had a dream giant conch with sliced lemon hats were coming to get me.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 25, 2025 03:09 PM (EJWxb)

58 Peaches, Merry Christmas and a blessed New Year to you.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 25, 2025 03:09 PM (sDNVV)

59 >>>25 Forgotten Christmas Memories

Sounds like AI is reading that script.

Posted by: m at December 25, 2025 03:09 PM (RuTUS)

60 @WilliamYang120
The Chinese military has simulated battles near Mexico and Cuba during a wargaming exercise – a rare insight revealed in a report on state television.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 25, 2025 02:56 PM (mlg/3

Hmmmm
Very interesting.
A leak or misdirection?

Posted by: Diogenes at December 25, 2025 03:10 PM (2WIwB)

61 52 Early 70's neighbors had an aluminum Christmas tree. They shined one of those spinning light color changing thingies on it. I wasn't impressed. Very cold feeling.
Posted by: olddog in mo

Obviously a communist.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 25, 2025 03:10 PM (abIsI)

62 52 Early 70's neighbors had an aluminum Christmas tree. They shined one of those spinning light color changing thingies on it. I wasn't impressed. Very cold feeling.

Posted by: olddog in mo at December 25, 2025 03:07 PM (bQ4nt)

Holy fuckballs, olddog, my maternal grandparents had one of those back in the early 60s, it was SO weird and I was just thinking about it the other day for the first time in decades. Yes, they had the spinning light thingy.

Posted by: Peaches at December 25, 2025 03:10 PM (2HfbY)

63 House is beginning to smell like roast turkey. I'm going to crawl into my insulated coveralls, and go run the snowblower for a few minutes.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 25, 2025 03:10 PM (npFr7)

64 My maternal grandparents had the silver aluminum Christmas tree with the 4-color rotating wheel.that made the tree turn colors. The grandkids loved that tree; the aunts, not so much 🤣🤣🤣🎄🎄🎄

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 25, 2025 03:11 PM (OeGHf)

65 If you enjoy Dickens with a twist watch Dickensian.

Posted by: Ben Had

That sounds like a great show. Thanks!
And Merry Christmas, Ben Had. Thank you for all that you do.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 25, 2025 03:12 PM (rghSL)

66 58 Peaches, Merry Christmas and a blessed New Year to you.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 25, 2025 03:09 PM (sDNVV)

You, too, sweet Ben Had. I can't imagine 125 people at Christmas but isn't it wonderful to have such lovely Christmas memories to savor? xx

Posted by: Peaches at December 25, 2025 03:13 PM (2HfbY)

67 My grandparents had the silver colored aluminum tree for years. I think they replaced it with a green fake tree just a few years before the aluminum trees were retro chic for awhile. I don't recall a color wheel, if they ever had one it must not have lasted for the life of the tree.

Posted by: PaleRider at December 25, 2025 03:14 PM (hhkIi)

68 Questionable fashion choices at Chinese buffet.

Ten years mummified old women with hair died a dried blood red color and a red plaid jacket that looks like it was looted from a couch. Plus side she drove up in a Jeep that is wrapped in a Wonder Woman comic scheme.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 25, 2025 03:15 PM (oP4FC)

69 Barely ScaryMary, Merry Christmas to you and your great guy. Thank you for being a part of what WE do. My aims are entirely selfish!

Posted by: Ben Had at December 25, 2025 03:15 PM (sDNVV)

70 Wife grew up with Scotch Pine Christmas trees. I came from a Balsam Fir family. Since marriage it's 44-1 Balsam over Scotch Pine. Winning.

Posted by: olddog in mo at December 25, 2025 03:16 PM (bQ4nt)

71 Sounds like a true purple hat club member Anna Puma.

Posted by: PaleRider at December 25, 2025 03:16 PM (hhkIi)

72 Forgotten Christmas Memories
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That lump of coal in my stocking at age 8.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 25, 2025 03:16 PM (XeU6L)

73 You lucky, lucky sod!
Posted by: Tonypete at December 25, 2025 02:51 PM (cYBz/)

Shuts off computer.
No competing with that.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 25, 2025 03:17 PM (2WIwB)

74
Early 70's neighbors had an aluminum Christmas tree. They shined one of those spinning light color changing thingies on it. I wasn't impressed. Very cold feeling.
Posted by: olddog in mo

Yeah, never cared for those.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 25, 2025 03:17 PM (pkeXY)

75 Obviously a communist.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 25, 2025 03:10
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Obviously.

Posted by: olddog in mo at December 25, 2025 03:17 PM (bQ4nt)

76 Yo

Posted by: VULGARIS at December 25, 2025 03:18 PM (cnz0C)

77 Hahahaha, maybe next year I will cut a small mesquite tree and decorate it. Lots of lights and red chiles!

Posted by: Ben Had at December 25, 2025 03:19 PM (sDNVV)

78 @5

>>What a frustration to be smelling a turkey cook and realize that there are two more hours before you can eat it.

There's always Scotch to get you through these dark times.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 25, 2025 03:20 PM (XV/Pl)

79 Maybe they were having ugly Christmas attire contest.

Her friend, she is wearing a black sweater decorated in Christmas lights while rocking red cowboy boots with long red tassels.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 25, 2025 03:21 PM (oP4FC)

80 What a frustration to be smelling a turkey cook and realize that there are two more hours before you can eat it.

There's always Scotch to get you through these dark times.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 25, 2025 03:20 PM (XV/Pl)

Unless you have company. Then go with wine. No since giving visitors any of the good stuff.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 25, 2025 03:21 PM (2WIwB)

81 I was reading an article at ESPN about the Penn State new coach search, and the phrase "more in the media than in reality" came up. Acknowledging the constant hype for this or that.
Kind of amazing how this has spread to become the common opinion on all media reporting, not just sports hype.

Posted by: From about That Time at December 25, 2025 03:22 PM (sl73Y)

82 Merry Christmas y'all!

Posted by: tbodie Lurker. Unless you are reading this. at December 25, 2025 03:23 PM (s54QH)

83 *pours a Glen Fohdry for Diogenes * I am sorry that we didn't get a chance to visit while you were here.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 25, 2025 03:24 PM (sDNVV)

84 Ben Had, iirc, Dave in Texas had strings of red chili lights on his Crap Christmas tree. I used to have a couple strands. Wonder if wife pitched them?

Posted by: olddog in mo at December 25, 2025 03:24 PM (bQ4nt)

85 70 Wife grew up with Scotch Pine Christmas trees. I came from a Balsam Fir family. Since marriage it's 44-1 Balsam over Scotch Pine. Winning.
Posted by: olddog in mo

You're running up the score now. This is unseemly, ungentlemanly, and egregious. Amazed she stays with you.

Posted by: Give Her A Break, Will you? at December 25, 2025 03:26 PM (oftw2)

86
Sounds like AI is reading that script.
Posted by: m

There's a LOT of that on Youtube.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 25, 2025 03:26 PM (pkeXY)

87 Yeah I used to put those red chili lights up over a mantle

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 25, 2025 03:26 PM (xTuYU)

88 olddog, I could make a garland of red and green peppers. The cats would stay 50 ft away!

Posted by: Ben Had at December 25, 2025 03:27 PM (sDNVV)

89 77 Hahahaha, maybe next year I will cut a small mesquite tree and decorate it. Lots of lights and red chiles!

Posted by: Ben Had at December 25, 2025 03:19 PM (sDNVV)

That sounds awesome! You will have to send Ace pics to post.

Posted by: Peaches at December 25, 2025 03:29 PM (2HfbY)

90 This is a recipe for skin diseases

@Breaking911 16m
This daredevil hitched a kneeboard to the back of a pickup truck and took a muddy ride along Bear Valley Road through the heart of Hesperia on Christmas Eve.
x.com/Breaking911/status/2004284041743552605

Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 25, 2025 03:29 PM (mlg/3)

91 Posted by: Give Her A Break, Will you? at December 25, 2025 03:26 PM (oftw2)
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No breaks. The only year we had the Scotch Pine the needles clogged the vacuum and burned up the motor. The dry needles would pierce your arms. Not to mention lack of the true Christmas Tree smell you only get from a Balsam Fir.

Posted by: olddog in mo at December 25, 2025 03:29 PM (bQ4nt)

92
52 Early 70's neighbors had an aluminum Christmas tree. They shined one of those spinning light color changing thingies on it. I wasn't impressed. Very cold feeling.

Posted by: olddog in mo at December 25, 2025 03:07 PM (bQ4nt)

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Remove the branches and you have a festivus pole.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 25, 2025 03:29 PM (VWtfl)

93 Peaches, I will have to write myself a note and hopefully remember where I put it!

Posted by: Ben Had at December 25, 2025 03:30 PM (sDNVV)

94 Bah! Humbug!!!

Posted by: Adriane the Not Enough Christmas Lights, the Airplanes Are NOT Circling Yet Critic . . . at December 25, 2025 03:32 PM (3ZUWJ)

95 93 Peaches, I will have to write myself a note and hopefully remember where I put it!

Posted by: Ben Had at December 25, 2025 03:30 PM (sDNVV)

Well, if you're anything like me, you won't be able to read it anyway!

Posted by: Peaches at December 25, 2025 03:32 PM (2HfbY)

96
No breaks. The only year we had the Scotch Pine the needles clogged the vacuum and burned up the motor. The dry needles would pierce your arms. Not to mention lack of the true Christmas Tree smell you only get from a Balsam Fir.
Posted by: olddog in mo

If you value your Hoover over the woman who has put up with you since the Truman Administration, it reflects poorly on you.

Posted by: Chivalry Is On Life Support at December 25, 2025 03:33 PM (oftw2)

97 But (transliterated) it's "C dnyom rozhdeniya khristovim" today, I think.

New Year's is 7 days away.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 25, 2025 03:03 PM (U/Byj)
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Yes but when I was there that greeting was not permitted!

I hope they have moved on from that.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 25, 2025 03:33 PM (A6iMD)

98 When i qas a kid we used to make a Christmas tree for the birds. Pine cones smeared with peanut butter and rolled in bird seed were hung on a pine tree in the front yard. It was a fun tradition.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 25, 2025 03:34 PM (rghSL)

99 Weather is nice here, Time to don the Santa Hat and black Dickens Cider Tshirt and hop on the Road King.

Posted by: DBCooper at December 25, 2025 03:34 PM (+daAW)

100 Merry Christmas everyone!

Special thanks to Ben Had for organizing the TXMoMe. What a wonderful time!

Posted by: SPinRH_F-16 at December 25, 2025 03:35 PM (WE61Y)

101 Guess I'm going to have to finish off this bottle of Trump 2015 Blanc De Noir Methode Champenoise by myself. BiL's moved onto vodka and family's dealing with mulled wine. Mixing mine with OJ and Peach Schnapp's. Got a strawberry in the glass. Very festive. And the OJ makes it a healthy drink.

Posted by: olddog in mo at December 25, 2025 03:36 PM (bQ4nt)

102 Ten years mummified old women with hair died a dried blood red color and a red plaid jacket that looks like it was looted from a couch. Plus side she drove up in a Jeep that is wrapped in a Wonder Woman comic scheme.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 25, 2025 03:15 PM (oP4FC)
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Around here that would mean Russian for sure. Add heavy perfume.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 25, 2025 03:36 PM (A6iMD)

103 Well, if you're anything like me, you won't be able to read it anyway!
Posted by: Peaches
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Hello, Peaches. My favorite is a telephone number that I jotted down...[I wonder whose number this is?]. The corollary is, of course, 'Where the hell is that number that I jotted down?'

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 25, 2025 03:36 PM (XeU6L)

104 SPinRH, Merry Christmas. Such a pleasure to meet you.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 25, 2025 03:39 PM (sDNVV)

105 Christmas without the kids, miss them dearly but they're left of Bernie. Got lectured this year about being too hard, I thought this woke stuff had an expiration date but now I think it will continue within one generation but will be ignored by succeeding generations. Kinda like the hippies, they never really went away.

Posted by: Tennessee Volunteer at December 25, 2025 03:39 PM (l7UGP)

106 Christmas tree for the birds. Pine cones smeared with peanut butter and rolled in bird seed were hung on a pine tree in the front yard. It was a fun tradition.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary
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Also, orange cups filled with bird seed. Cut orange in half scoop out inside and string with red ribbon.

Posted by: olddog in mo at December 25, 2025 03:43 PM (bQ4nt)

107 (raises glass to Ben Had)

The prime rib mocks me from the oven. It thinks it's safe there. In about an hour, it will learn otherwise. Oh yes, have your fun now, prime rib...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at December 25, 2025 03:43 PM (nbLIj)

108 Tennessee Volunteer, that sounds tough. I'm sorry.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 25, 2025 03:44 PM (rghSL)

109 Joe Kidd, Merry Christmas ! The red is sublime, thank you so much.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 25, 2025 03:45 PM (sDNVV)

110 Actually Franpsycho I shoulda said the Christmas greeting was for whenever Ortho Christmas is (next week?). Not today.

I was never there during holiday season. Only holiday I experienced was Navy Day (early August) up in Leningrad, which was quite interesting with the White Nights and especially the very loud illumination mortars they used in lieu of fireworks, fired from right near our location up over the river. Soviet fireworks = light military artillery systems = a clear example of superiority over the decadent west with its wimpy safety obsession.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 25, 2025 03:47 PM (U/Byj)

111 My kids are left but they have one problem. We went to church with a cousin of Trump's for 20 years. Body double, if you could imagine Trump wearing a heather tweed jacket with patched elbows and loafers with run-over heels. Part of the real estate group. Terrific guy. Generous. His eldest daughter taught them both in Sunday school. We went to church family camp with them in the summers.

Definitely cramps the kids' style when they want to be critical.

Posted by: Wenda at December 25, 2025 03:48 PM (FRS+s)

112 Sounds like AI is reading that script.
Posted by: m

There's a LOT of that on Youtube.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

What are they doing, having an AI journalist write an article, then AI narrate it, then a third AI pass adding stock video footage?

All they need now is an AI to choose topics on the front end, another on thetail end to start a YouTube channel, upload, and monatize it.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 25, 2025 03:48 PM (/lPRQ)

113 Franpsycho is that area out on the Avenues (Clement?) still packed fulla russkis? Haven't been in eons but was fun to be in that environment when visiting. Only other place like that was Brighton Beach in NYC area.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 25, 2025 03:49 PM (U/Byj)

114 Ben Had at December 25, 2025 03:45 PM (sDNVV)

Opening my last bottle here. I only see the 2022 now. Will have audition it for the New Year. That 2019 was special...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at December 25, 2025 03:50 PM (nbLIj)

115 Joe Kidd, it was indeed. Like drinking velvet.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 25, 2025 03:51 PM (sDNVV)

116 Nood

Posted by: Tuna at December 25, 2025 03:52 PM (lJ0H4)

117 Done. Roast is resting, taters are mashed, green beans are perfect texture and the Yorkshire pudding is chef's kiss.

Almost time to overeat.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 25, 2025 04:02 PM (viF8m)

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