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Post by BATouttaheck on Dec 11, 2017 19:40:58 GMT
"When the novel was written, Christmas was a truly merry and festive religious holiday."
In books and stories and the Norman Rockwell and Hallmark Cards version of Victorian reality maybe.
[Scrooge speaks of poor houses and debtors prisons, reducing the surplus population etc.. Then there are the two pitiful children hiding under the robes of the joy ghost.
Victorian times ... jolly and festive ? Ya.
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Post by snsurone on Dec 12, 2017 2:44:13 GMT
Throughout human history there has been poverty and suffering. But there has never been so much selfishness and commercialism of a supposed religious holiday as there is of Christmas in the 20th and 21st centuries.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Dec 12, 2017 2:51:38 GMT
On page one "To be perfectly honest, I really don't know why I'm bitching about this, LOL."
Prolly... Cuz it's the season to bitch about the season.
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Post by snsurone on Dec 12, 2017 3:02:33 GMT
And that's a good thing!
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Post by BATouttaheck on Dec 12, 2017 3:40:38 GMT
No one would put up with someone bitchin' about Christmas in August but somehow it's ok in December.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Dec 12, 2017 4:40:00 GMT
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Dec 12, 2017 14:17:18 GMT
"Humbug" was a great episode of The X-Files from season 2!
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Post by BATouttaheck on Dec 12, 2017 16:08:31 GMT
Lebowskidoo 🦞One of the re-run stations here is playing the X-Files. I shall have to watch for this episode. Looks awesome. I did not know (until now) that HUMBUGS are a candy ! They look pretty tasty.
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Dec 12, 2017 17:34:09 GMT
BATouttaheckHumbugs are everywhere at Christmas, how did you miss them?
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Post by BATouttaheck on Dec 12, 2017 17:42:56 GMT
Lebowskidoo 🦞Humbugs are everywhere at Christmas, how did you miss them?
My only excuse is that I don't get to Canada all that often. A Mighty Poor excuse, I know, but mine own !
Thank heavens for Google (though I guess I could have posted a QUESTION THREAD but anyway,here's what I found "Humbugs are a traditional hard boiled sweet available in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. They are usually flavoured with peppermint and striped in two different colours (often black and white)."
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Dec 12, 2017 17:46:24 GMT
Lebowskidoo 🦞 Humbugs are everywhere at Christmas, how did you miss them?
My only excuse is that I don't get to Canada all that often. A Mighty Poor excuse, I know, but mine own !
Thank heavens for Google (though I guess I could have posted a QUESTION THREAD but anyway,here's what I found "Humbugs are a traditional hard boiled sweet available in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. They are usually flavoured with peppermint and striped in two different colours (often black and white)." See, it helps if you remained within the British Commonwealth, y'all went independent and lost the right to enjoy hard boiled sweets at Christmas.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Dec 12, 2017 17:51:36 GMT
Lebowskidoo 🦞Maybe Santa will bring me some Humbugs and not this again : . "For the One Who Didn't Behave" =
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Post by snsurone on Dec 12, 2017 18:04:18 GMT
And some of the finest Anthracite in the world!
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Post by BATouttaheck on Dec 12, 2017 18:51:41 GMT
Memory of "A Christmas Carol". My friend Ari , who had been brought up in a very strict, very traditional, very "everything Kosher" household, moved into Manhattan and his small apartment became the semi-official place to go when you wanted to be "where everybody knew your name" and you just wanted to hang out and "chill". One Christmas Eve, Mary (who had no television set of her own, was away from her family in Utah and craved a viewing of the Sims "Christmas Carol") invited herself (and by default the whole mob) to Ari's to watch the VERY LATE night movie . He, being Ari, said "Sure, why not? I've never been allowed to see it". One of the girls picked up the bottom 1/4 of a Christmas tree that had been trimmed because it was too tall for someone's apt. The "Hanukah Bush" was set up and decorated with ornaments we made Grade- School-style with paper and paste. Someone brought lights. Somehow it turned into one of the best Trees (Bushes ?) ever ! Anyway. Comes time for Scrooge to make his appearance. Folks were asleep and snoring all over the apartment. Mary, Ari and I were on Ari's big couch watching the movie. Ari would nod off BUT wake up for every commercial. Mary got to see the movie and I a great Christmas Memory.
Another simple memory : Lionel Barrymore reading the story on the radio.
anyone have others ? This thread is as good as any to post 'em and might help beat the "Bah's" OR There is also a thread over on GENERAL DISCUSSIONS .
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Post by Nalkarj on Dec 12, 2017 19:14:07 GMT
Hey, Lebowskidoo 🦞, that’s one great poster for the X-Files episode. Borrowing from Browning’s Freaks?
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Post by teleadm on Dec 12, 2017 19:24:17 GMT
BATouttaheck"Another simple memory : Lionel Barrymore reading the story on the radio" Maybe something like this:
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Post by BATouttaheck on Dec 12, 2017 19:32:26 GMT
teleadmThat's the Barrymore I remember as an annual "thing". I do believe that it's on YouTube ! .
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Post by BATouttaheck on Dec 13, 2017 0:03:55 GMT
Speaking of Christmas Spirit (or the lack thereof)
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Post by BATouttaheck on Dec 13, 2017 0:05:34 GMT
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Dec 13, 2017 13:31:20 GMT
Hey, Lebowskidoo 🦞 , that’s one great poster for the X-Files episode. Borrowing from Browning’s Freaks? Oh, definitely, Nalkarj! The episode had to have been inspired by Freaks, it's about a carnival of sideshow performers who are a little freaky themselves. I never made the exact connection, though, until you pointed it out.
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