posted December 17, 2014 05:45 PM            

Little Donkey:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVQPmtjHzh4

posted December 17, 2014 10:38 PM            

Many others prefer Kidnap the Sandy Claws (which Jack orders after deciding he's going to replace Santa, though they're also the henchmen for another spook that has his own agenda):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ry7PcYtKPhA

posted December 18, 2014 09:22 AM            

I`m more of a sentimental sap when it comes to traditional Christmas music and movies.

The songs of Faith from my child hood still hold as favorites today .

Fun song favs are Jingle Bell Rock and I saw mama Kissing Santa Clause

It`s a Wonderful Life , after years of watching and expecting the teary end, still chokes up.

posted December 24, 2014 01:54 AM            

I saw mommy kissing Yog-Sothoth:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSvsy11PHxM

posted December 24, 2014 02:07 AM            

After seeing it I thought it was my turn to show something the other hadn't seen and showed a Buffy ep...not the Christmas special one (which wouldn't make much sense to someone who wasn't familiar with the series) but seeing a wish turn out so wrong like that when a guy wasn't born reminded me of the Buffy ep: The Wish and since she made me sit through her movie I decided to make her sit through an ep.

As both kids liked vampires I went to let them know I was playing if it they wanted to see it (an effect of the spiked eggnog) as they hadn't watched the movie with us (they'd seen it enough times) and the 12-year-old said she'd skip and I said something like "maybe a good thing, it gets on the scary side with blood and torture, not exactly Christmasey" and then asked the then 7-year-old boy warning him it was scary (if I hadn't been buzzed I probably wouldn't have asked him).

Saying it was scary made the boy instantly interested. I get back and the girl is there to watch it, too. Hey, if there's blood, torture, and terror then how bad can it be?

posted December 24, 2014 05:49 PM            

A song that commemorates the 1914 Christmas Truce:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWkYmgQu2XY

Btw, does anyone recall a paranormal event in either WW1 or 2 in which I believe it was a light swept down over the battlefields (at night, IIRC, and I also think it was near Christmas) which stopped the fighting for awhile with some even seeing visions of the dead, including those they killed that told them the fighting was pointless? I can't recall enough to google it and it was about 15 years ago that I heard about it...I'd like to read up on that again.

posted January 01, 2015 09:52 PM            

I HEARD the bells on Christmas Day
Their old, familiar carols play,
And wild and sweet
The words repeat
Of peace on earth, good-will to men!

And thought how, as the day had come,
The belfries of all Christendom
Had rolled along
The unbroken song
Of peace on earth, good-will to men!

Till ringing, singing on its way,
The world revolved from night to day,
A voice, a chime,
A chant sublime
Of peace on earth, good-will to men!

Then from each black, accursed mouth
The cannon thundered in the South,
And with the sound
The carols drowned
Of peace on earth, good-will to men!

It was as if an earthquake rent
The hearth-stones of a continent,
And made forlorn
The households born
Of peace on earth, good-will to men!

And in despair I bowed my head;
"There is no peace on earth," I said;
"For hate is strong,
And mocks the song
Of peace on earth, good-will to men!"

Then pealed the bells more loud and deep:
"God is not dead, nor doth He sleep;
The Wrong shall fail,
The Right prevail,
With peace on earth, good-will to men."