Archive for the ‘Holly Jolly Christmas Day’ Category

Dickens December: The time before you is your own

December 25, 2010

God bless us, every one.


Yes! and the bedpost was his own. The bed was his own, the room was his own. Best and happiest of all, the Time before him was his own, to make amends in!

“I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future!” Scrooge repeated, as he scrambled out of bed. “The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. … A merry Christmas to everybody! A happy New Year to all the world!”

(Charles Dickens. Stave Five: The End of It. A Christmas Carol.)

The time before you is your own, to make amends in and to forge a better future. Remember that you are made out of stars.

Holly Jolly Christmas Day: Vintage funny business — all-occasion Saint Nicks

December 25, 2010

Gerry Gersten for Playboy, December 1966.

Holly Jolly Christmas Day: Keep it clean

December 25, 2010


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Spend Christmas shaking hands with a baby from 1945, not in a hospital. I am All For It actually. Had enough of hospitals in 2010 to hold me over for a very long while. So keep it clean out there!

Holly Jolly Christmas Day: Don’t mind Hitler

December 25, 2010

Don’t mind Mr. Hilter. He’s just chatting with that nice Mr. Bimmler and Ron Vibbentrop about a proposal at the next National Bocialist rally to annex Poland.


Foam at the mouth and fall over backwards. Is he foaming at the mouth to fall over backwards or falling over backwards to foam at the mouth? … What do I mean by the word ‘mean’? What do I mean by the word ‘word’? What do I mean by ‘what do I mean’? What do I mean by ‘do’ and what do I do by ‘mean’? And what do I do by do by do and what do I mean by wasting your time like this? Good night.

(“Mr. Hilter and the Minehead by-election.” Monty Python’s Flying Circus. Series 1, Season 1, Episode 12: “The Naked Ant.” Original airdate January 4, 1970. Recorded December 21, 1969.)

Holly Jolly Christmas Day: Talk nerdy to me — “That’s no ornament” edition

December 25, 2010

Ceci n’est pas un ornament.

Holly Jolly Christmas Day: Art of the advertisement, Take three

December 25, 2010

The perfect gift for your man.

Holly Jolly Christmas Day: Art of the advertisement, Take two

December 25, 2010

Pretty sure they mean a case to give away as gifts, not to drink by yourself.

Holly Jolly Christmas Day: Art of the advertisement

December 25, 2010


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How some stay warm.