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Category Archives: Christmas

Phones for Fearless: Phase II

December 30, 2008 – 10:03 am

Read all about it: Phones for Fearless is far from finished! With all the great gifts people got over the holidays, we know there will be some used phones, cameras, and other mobile devices kicking around looking for new homes, and we stand ready to provide them!
Donate your old mobile phones to help DTES artists [...]

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Coming Out at Christmas

December 28, 2008 – 2:44 am

It’s rare that tottering around YouTube finds one a new classic of the internets, but today it did indeed and in truth do even so. Behold, the London Gay Men’s Chorus performing Coming Out at Christmas:

and these are not the lyrics, but they ARE amusing.

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The Carol Channing Christmas Message

December 28, 2008 – 12:09 am

What’s the difference, really, between one old Queen and another?

Which reminds me, in fact, of the time (I was not there, you understand, I heard it later, she wasn’t talking to me by that time) the Queen Mum phoned down to her butler’s switchboard or staff room or whatever it was [...]

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A Christmas Tradition

December 25, 2008 – 3:59 am

This is a repost from last year. As a bittersweet Christmas post, I don’t think it can be topped, so I’m reposting it. If nothing else, read A Christmas Story. You’ll thank me.

One morning quite some while ago I was awoken by my sister, who’d been sent by my mother, walking into my room, banging [...]

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The Battle of Bethlehem

December 16, 2008 – 5:00 am

It’s Santa vs the Babby Jeebus in the fight of the … duplennium? Sumthin’ anyway.

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The 12 Days of A Capella

December 14, 2008 – 9:13 am

This is a capella group Straight No Chaser’s version of the 12 Days of Christmas…remixed with a little 80’s flava. If you want to fast forward to the payoff, it’s all good but the real payoff starts about 1:58. You can tell because people start screaming, which is an unusual enough event at a barbershop [...]

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Christmas Giving Made Easy

December 10, 2008 – 2:47 pm

No jokes here; just a simple guide to donating 100 lbs of food to the Greater Boston Food Bank, for free.
Go to this post, read it and leave a comment and Tyson Foods will donate 100 lbs of food to the food bank for each comment received. No strings, no coupons, no mailing lists.
Thanks to [...]

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Leslie Harpold sez Merry Zombie Christmas!

December 8, 2008 – 12:12 pm

So there it was.
White. Bright. Practically dewy with freshness, dated Monday, December 8 2008 (I quadruple-checked the year)(which the literal-minded will note was not even technically the case in my time zone when I encountered it) sitting there on my monitor for all the world as if it were a regular article waiting patiently to [...]

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Sarah Palin’s Christmas Special!

December 4, 2008 – 1:18 pm

You just can’t keep a bad ex-candidate down. Yes, the Dan Quayle of Alaska is back, with a retro holiday special sure to bring a tear to the eye.

from Jimmy Kimmel via SeriouslyOMG

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Hacked? Back!

November 11, 2008 – 11:07 am

Not exactly sure what’s been going on, but all of a sudden WordPress didn’t like my password. In fact, they refused to accept it and let me into my own blog, no matter how many times I batted the monitor and screamed.
Imagine!
In any case, whether it was a password hack or technical difficulty, either on [...]

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