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(gang is having cocoa, and watching A Charlie Brown Christmas - and reciting some of the lines.) Storyteller: Get some hot water! Get some disinfectant! Get some iodine! Everyone else: Blaaah... Nora: 43 years and they still can't get that play together. Scooter: And what I want to know is...

Giving does help - after all, remember the song "Pass it On." Speaking of putting the holidays in perspective, they showed "A Charlie Brown Christmas" again on ABC tonight, so of course I had to catch it. To fill out the rest of the hour, they also showed that grouping of more recent...

That's really good, heralde. The company I work with is doing several angel trees and a few adopt-a-child programs, asking all the reporters, editors and other staff to contribute gifts for needy children and families in the area. And you're right; it is really fulfilling. And I know what you...

Really? I just checked and it's still up there. Must have been a hiccup in the server or something.

Yeah, it reminds me of that one line from "Christmas Time is Here" from "A Charlie Brown Christmas:" "Oh that we could always see such spirit through the year." I mean, people try to be nice to others on Christmas, but what about the other 364 days in the year? I read some story, heralde - it...

Storyteller: (singing, while sorting some epics) Chestnuts roasting on an open fire... Beige: Which is a blatant violation of ten different fire and safety codes. Storyteller: (singing) Jack Frost nipping at your nose... Beige: A telltale sign that hypothermia is about to set in. Storyteller...

I know what you mean. Both of my parents are nearsighted, so my genes got a double dose of the lousy eyesight allele. Anything that's more than four feet away from me looks blurry if I don't have my glasses on. But I don't mind wearing glasses; I've been wearing them since I was eight, and I...

I remember that we had to read "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" back in middle school for summer reading one year. And I remember the teacher telling us that, for some reason still not entirely known to me, she used to have to send permission slips home whenever she assigned the book. I...

I watched "Time" a lot after school on PBS when I was in middle school - good show. It was the only one of the game shows I saw...and I'm probably dating myself by saying this, but my brother and I had been big fans of the Carmen Sandiego computer games for years by then - back when the series...

Maybe it is a jab at Communism, but since I've not really watched all the Rankin and Bass specials, I can't really say. The one special we really watch at this time of year is A Charlie Brown Christmas. And that is really something to think about. In Of Muppets and Men, it's written that...

Yeah, what was it they said about Richard's laugh, when they were recording live laughter from the Muppet performers? "Nobody could go up to that level!" And you know, I just have this really funny mental image of the Muppet performers going into a sound booth one by one to record some...

(gang is sitting around, having hot chocolate) Erin: Oh, spritzes. My uncles adore them; they can inhale a whole tray in minutes. Scooter: That's nothing; Uncle J.P. can devour an entire truffle cheesecake in minutes. (slurps cocoa) So what are we doing first? Nora: Well, I guess we'll get the...

Poor Scooter. If looks could kill, Scooter would be down for the count in ten seconds. And I like Gonzo's line about the Rodent Doo-Wop All Stars: "Finally, some class on this show!"

Hmm...according to one interview with Jerry Nelson: "There was another memorial after he passed away, which was also held at St. John the Divine, but in the Chapel." The only chapels that I know of on the premises are the seven chapels at the back of the cathedral, the Chapels of the Tongues...

Yeah, I read about it the day after in the paper. They also had, in the article on Black Friday, a photo of the first wave of shoppers hurtling into Macy's at five in the morning, and there were accounts of scuffles and fist fights over this and that...I just felt really depressed when I put the...

Same here; it's been snowing since about 6:30 tonight where I am.

It's the same here; we've all (or at least, Mom and I have) asked each other not to go overboard on present-buying this year. So we're each getting each other a few meaningful items. And it's true, heralde - it's about establishing new routines for the holidays. And people do things like...

And by extension, a stadium, and a couple of stops on the Metropolitan and Bakerloo tube lines. There's a very wide road that leads straight from the Wembley Park tube stop to the stadium gates. All the better to accomodate the hordes of football fans and rock fans.

Yeah, Christmas is all about peace, love and hope...but in a lot of ways we've managed to drown out that message, unfortunately. (Any of you guys hear about that really nasty incident at that Wal-Mart on Long Island?) I'm probably not alone in saying this, but I'm just feeling a tad...

Ah, the Great Santa Claus Switch. Like I said, I wonder where someone dug that up. Nice comeback, heralde, very nice! But I'll bet that in terms of lateness Richard could have topped you... It's true, Kate...Richard was only on this earth for 40 years and five months, but he's been able to...