December 21, 2007

CLASSIC CHRISTMAS MOVIE ENDINGS III

No comments necessary:

"To my big brother George, the richest man in town."

UPDATE:
Thanks to The Abbot for reminding me about this little gem: the alternate ending. LOL!

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CLASSIC CHRISTMAS MOVIE ENDINGS II

The very best version of "A Christmas Carol" -

Alistair Sim is the Best.Scrooge.Evaaaaahhhh!

And damn you, Ted Turner for colorizing this masterpiece!!!! (no embed code available for the BW version. Grrr.)

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Gratuitous Llama Netflix Movie Review

The Simpsons (2007)

Yes, I finally saw it.

My chief fear had been that the movie was going to go off in some horrible direction at an oblique angle from the tee vee show. The good news is that it doesn't. Indeed, the plot isn't really much more than a somewhat extended version of what typically shows up on Sunday nights. The bad news also is that the plot isn't really much more than a somewhat extended version of what typically shows up on Sunday nights, because it serves to remind us once again that the whole Simpsons franchise is well past its prime and nothing like it was in its glory days of seven or eight years back.

All in all? Eh, it was okay. Don't know if I'd bother with it again, tho.

Incidentally, the thing that grabbed me the most was the fact that the animation technique was much closer to that of Futurama than the Simpsons tee vee show. I kept half expecting Bender to do a walk on. I'd like to see him and Bart facing off in a Crouching Tiger/Hidden Dragon-type showdown.

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Like You Were Doing Any Work Anyway

It's Shoot Down Santa and, by golly, it's pretty durn hard. The crosshairs are hard to see and having to constantly move about you tend to lose track of where you're shooting.

I managed to score 950 on the "easy" level.

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Be Afraid

"A Christmas Story" recut

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Light Fuse, Stand Back (Christmas Special Version)

Snow Miser v. Heat Miser

Which one would win the steel-cage death match? Discuss (and support your answer).

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CLASSIC CHRISTMAS MOVIE ENDINGS

Scrooged - We love ya, Bill:

"Put a little love in your heart"

For those who want the whole song (Annie Lennox/Al Green) here ya go:

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There's Something About...

CHRISTMAS TIME!!

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OKAY, BACK TO THE PARTY!

Sorry if the aside below was a bit of a buzz-kill. Mrs. P's 100% Guaranteed Anti-Serious Sourpuss Catholic Blogger Tonic ought to get us back into the swing of things:

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Interesting

Okay, taking a break from the Llama Office Party, Day 2 for just a moment, I was intrigued by Wendy Shalit's article over at OpinionJournal this morning on what may actually be a legitimate, burgeoning cultural counter-revolution:

Sensing the makings of a more conservative generation, Phillip Longman, writing in the Harvard Business Review, warned readers in the February issue to "think twice" about touting sexually explicit video games: "Businesses that have relied on sex to sell products . . . could provoke boycotts or outright bans." Today's sexy marketing campaigns "could come to be seen as relics of a decadent past." This is what happened in 2005 when teenage girls successfully "girlcotted" Abercrombie & Fitch's "attitude tees." It wasn't parents but the girls themselves who succeeded in getting the clothing retailer to pull the shirts with sayings such as "Who Needs Brains When You Have These?"

On several occasions in recent years, the National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy has found that twice as many adults as teens answered "yes" to this question: "Do you think it is embarrassing for teens to admit they are virgins?" I now have a whole email folder filled with tales of this generational disconnect. A 19-year-old wrote to me after her mother pressured her to go to bars during the workweek. When mom packed her off with 12 condoms on a trip to India, the girl wondered: "Am I really going to have so much sex in the Third World?" I heard from a 16-year-old whose parents think she is "Victorian" because "excuse me if sex is not my favorite dinner topic."

And then there's my favorite email, received in October: "When I was about 12," reports a 23-year-old woman, "my baby boomer mother came up to me one day after school, and appraising my typical baggy t-shirt and jeans said, 'you really ought to start wearing smaller shirts. That's what the boys want.' I of course just blushed and mumbled something like 'OK, mom.' Now that I'm older I realize that instead of just being embarrassed, I could have said, 'what about what I want?' "

People sometimes forget that Victorian propriety was a direct backlash against the excesses of the late Georgian era preceding it. Mom has been predicting for some time now a similar backlash against Boomer hedonism in general, and the "Sexual Revolution"*** in particular. Articles like this one suggest that this is starting to occur. What I find especially interesting about it is that the revolt and the demand for higher standards apparently is coming from the younger generations. The kids are alright.

***SOOPER-SEKRET NOTE TO FEMINISTS: You do know by now that the "Sexual Revolution" was nothing more than a fraud fadged up by a bunch of hipster doofuses and sold to you so they could carry on without any responsibilities, right? Right?

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A LITTLE CHRISTMAS PARTY CHEER TO GO

Here's a little something for those of you hitting the road to see loved ones for the Holidays:

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LLAMABUTCHERS CHRISTMAS OFFICE PARTY--DAY TWO

Run run reindeer, baby!

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HAIR OF THE DOG

Nursing the Llamabutchers Christmas Office Party hangover...

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December 20, 2007

A Retro Kitsch Christmas: Madison Avenue Style

"...it's the real thing..."

Yips! from Robbo: I'm on that one, too -

I actually saw this commercial on tee vee the other day and realized I never, ever got tired of it.

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AND NOW TO REIGN IT IN A BIT WITH THE MORE TRADITIONAL

Ah, The Carpenters:

Yips! from Robbo: Ha! You want to go retro kitsch, little man?

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WE INTERRUPT THIS OFFICE PARTY FOR A SPECIAL "HUH?" BULLETIN

The Big Tuna is becoming a Dolphin:

Bill Parcells has officially joined the Miami Dolphins.

Parcells, 66, faxed a finalized copy of his contract to the Dolphins Thursday morning, according to a source close to the situation. Parcells is set to become the Dolphins' executive vice president for football operations.

The team was still not commenting on the issue as of noon, but a formal announcement was being planned.

He is scheduled to do an interview at 4 p.m. Thursday on ESPN's NFL Live. Parcells, currently a studio analyst for ESPN, is expected to remain with the network through the weekend games.

He is expected to come to South Florida for a formal introduction no earlier than Wednesday.

[Insert Keanu Reeves-like "Whoa" here.]

Speaking of the 'Fins, I am here and now issuing the OFFICIAL ROBBO THE LLAMA TRUTH OR DARE/HAIL MARY CHALLENGE: If.....I say IF the 'Fins manage the impossible and knock off the Pats this weekend, I, Robbo the LLama, will accept any posting dare that you can come up with. Picture or post, doesn't matter - You request it, I'll do it.

Drop your suggestions right 'cheer.

Yips! from Gary:
Sorry, Robbo. Looks like he ain't gonna be coaching, though. Kind of like "The Hobbit" without Peter Jackson directing. Oh well. Have some more of this monster egg nog my brother made with lighter fluid.**

**spot the quote

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1 I vaguely recall that Robin Williams used to do a routine about a dolphin caught in a tuna net saying, in a suitably high-pitched voice, "I am not a tuna!" I guess Tuna and Dolphins still school together...

Posted by: the gripping hand at December 20, 2007 04:35 PM (QDSoa)

2 Didn't you promise us, long ago, a photo of you in a kilt at some sort of battle staged by the Llamaettes and their classes? Cause I don't recall that materializing and that would definitely be worthy of a win by the 'Fins.

And if said photos never got taken, then I'm guessing you'll just have to recreate them on a smaller scale.

Posted by: beth at December 20, 2007 06:37 PM (mL6ts)

3 I say IF the 'Fins manage the impossible and knock off the Pats this weekend

I see Robbo has finally taken up Fantasy Football.

Posted by: LB Buddy at December 21, 2007 12:46 PM (mDtbo)

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Ha!

Haaaaa!!! Ha! Ha!! Ha!!! Ha!!!!

That is all.

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AND THE LLAMA HIGH-LARITY CONTINUES!

Christmas at Ground Zero:

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MORE LLAMA CHRISTMAS OFFICE PARTY HIJINX

Merry Christmas, m'kay?

(It was this or "Merry Effin' Christmas" and I didn't want to go all NSFW during an office party.)

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I'm Crashing

So, I see the boys are having an office party and failed to invite me.

Go figure.

But since they forgot to take the spare keys back, I'll simply crash. I've done it before. I can do it again.

Somehow, when you show up with a bottle of Jack and some roasted chipmunk, it generally turns out that they don't mind all that much.

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