5 days till Christmas

5 days till Christmas
December 20th
Movie of the day: National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
This one is a family favorite. We would quote lines from this movie year round just to get a good laugh.

Bethany: Is your house on fire, Clark?
Clark: No, Aunt Bethany, those are the Christmas lights.

I am always reminded of this movie when we go out looking at Christmas lights. Here are a few memorable light shows that rival Clark's display.







Christmas Carol of the Day:
We wish you a merry Christmas
http://www.carols.org.uk/we_wish_you_a_merry_christmas.htm

Christmas Trivia
(brought to you by howstuffworks.com)
What is Figgy Pudding?
Before you sing, "Now bring us some figgy pudding," it might be helpful to know exactly what you are requesting. Figgy pudding is an English dish similar to bread pudding. Made from figs, bread crumbs, cinnamon, nutmeg, and milk, the pudding is baked, then topped with a scrumptious brandied hard sauce, custard icing, powdered sugar, or whipped cream.
The dish was immortalized in the song We Wish You a Merry Christmas and was served by Mrs. Cratchit in the Charles Dickens classic A Christmas Carol.
http://christmas.howstuffworks.com/games/christmas-trivia8.htm

Comedian Gary Gulman has a great sketch about We wish you a merry Christmas and his problem with the Figgy Pudding part. I wish I could find a video to post. Here is the transcript:

"People used to Christmas carol in my neighborhood.
They would come to my house, even though we were clearly Jewish.
Clearly, because we were the only house in the neighborhood that didn't have a giant Santa on the lawn, a blow-up Santa.
We didn't have that.
We had a giant Neil Diamond on our lawn.
[Laughter] and he would sing "love on the rocks" every half-hour on the half-hour.
[Cheering and applause] and old Jewish women would come from miles around to pay tribute to him and his hairy chest.
[Laughter] my favorite one that they would sing to our, at our house, they would come by and they would do,
♪ we wish you a merry Christmas ♪
♪ we wish you a merry Christmas ♪
which was very nice, and you know, we don't celebrate Christmas, but they also wished us a happy new year, so I appreciated that, but then, at the end, you remember, they get really needy.
They're like, ♪ now bring us some figgy pudding ♪
♪ now bring us some figgy pudding ♪
♪ now bring us ♪
I'm like, "figgy pudding?
" ♪ we won't go until we get some ♪
♪ we won't go ♪
[laughter] like, guys.
You got to call ahead ?
[Laughter] it's a pretty obscure dessert.
What do you think, I got figgy pudding on the boil 24 hours a day?
No figgy pudding.
I've got some figgy newtons. "
http://www.livedash.com/transcript/gary_gulman__boyish_man/6426/COMEDYP/Thursday_October_8_2009/93122/