Because no one asked, here are my Top 10 Christmas Songs.

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You’ve got less than an hour to catch the replay of tonight’s Larry King Live on CNN, which appears to have been a replay of Richard Pryor’s guest shot with Larry that looks like it was in the neighbourhood of 20 years ago. (A much younger Larry is wearing a sweater over his suspenders; he [...]

I will promptly be demanding a correction from the Detroit Free Press. They’ll know better next time than to try to fool the master. At no point in “A Charlie Brown Christmas” is a teacher heard doing the “wa WA wa WAA wa waaa” thing.

Boing Boing reports a lost episode of Fawlty Towers!!! Let’s see… they’ve made what I’m sure is a tidy sum syndicating the 12 episode run of the series for lo these many years. If there was another, surely it would have been thrown in at some point.
Unless…
It’s a hoax — in fact, it’s a new [...]

You’ve heard Howard Cosell announce John Lennon’s death on Monday Night Football. You may have heard the bulletin that interrupted the Tonight Show. But this page (second link from the top) reveals the emotion of a fill-in DJ as the terrible news comes crashing in.

From the Outback Steakhouse website:
Thank you for your interest in Outback Steakhouse. The CD that was featured in our recent Dale Jarrett and John Madden commercial is not available. It was actually a spoof type commercial that uses humor to talk about our holiday gift certificates. We had no idea that it would be so [...]

Hasbro now has a page that lets you print your own Monopoly money. Boing Boing suggests the modding possibilities for this, which sounds more useful than just using it as an alternative to buying the stuff in the store. Because given the cost of inkjet cartridges, it doesn’t seem worth it.

This sounds unlikely, but Cartoon Brew reports the original Rudolph and Santa puppets have been found. Previously, it was claimed they had all pretty much disintegrated, thanks to a lacquer that was sprayed on them to reduce glare.
Oh, and hey, it’s all the songs from “‘Twas the Night Before Christmas”!!!