How The Grinch Vandalized Christmas
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How the PC grinch is stealing Christmas
How the PC grinch is stealing Christmas
12/07/2003 09:46 PMIrish Times Dec 7 2003 9:33PM ET
You're a mean one, Mr. Grinch
You're a mean one, Mr. Grinch
12/22/2004 01:53 AM
« One of the greatest books for children in the English
language. »
Last week I was having coffee with my coworkers and used the word
'grinchly' in a sentence which drew a completely unexpected quizzical
look. Finland, and the rest of Europe, gets a seeming never ending
stream of American TV, movies and, printed matter so, having been
spoiled by Jarkko who has a near encyclopaedic recall for the more
random bits of American pop culture, I was totally flabbergasted that
Dr. Seuss had never made it this far north. I was also rather happy to
find a rare chink in Jarkko's knowledge, but why couldn't that have
been the Love Boat or some other lame 70s show instead of one
of my most cherished authors? :)
A couple of people in the office today mentioned that the Grinch
would be on TV tonight which made me nearly squeak with glee as that
Christmas special, in the long tradition of Christmas TV specials in
the US, still has a special place in my heart. Unfortunately, it is
the Jim Carrey abomination rather than How the Grinch Stole Christmas, the 1966 animated TV
edition with Boris Karloff narrating. I'm really quite sorry that
anyone would have their first exposure to this charming classic with
the modern version which has little of the original verse or story.
Instead of the subtle, clever tale of Christmas gone mad, the movie
strips it of any charm and dumbs it down so much that even the most
slow of us would find the moral quite overwhelmingly obvious. I'm
actually really pissed off that this movie even exists as it
shamlessly savages something sacrosanct. Just imagine Jim Carrey
deciding to adapt the Moomin stories....
I suspect that How
the Grinch Stole Christmas and the corpus of Dr. Seuss
hasn't been translated because of the difficult poetic verse and,
perhaps, lack of cultural interest, but if Finland can import all the
crap reality TV shows Finns can handle why not something
every American grows up with and still thinks fondly of well into old
age?. Finns would, I suspect, greatly enjoy the story about The
Lorax with its trees and the Once-ler. The stories; their
clever language and verse are a joy to read alone or aloud and always
evoke memories of a time when I was younger and Christmas specials
didn't suck quite so much with their overdone special effects and
simplified scripts to make it mindnumbingly dull for kids.
At Least 100 Vehicles Vandalized in Ohio
At Least 100 Vehicles Vandalized in Ohio
12/29/2003 10:32 PMReuters via Wired News Dec 29 2003 9:39PM ET
French Mosque Vandalized, Daubed with
Swastikas
French Mosque Vandalized, Daubed with
Swastikas
04/16/2004 07:40 AMReuters via Wired News Apr 16 2004 12:34PM GMT
Internet sales tax looms as Grinch this
season
Internet sales tax looms as Grinch this
season
12/22/2003 08:55 PMYahoo! via Yahoo! Dec 22 2003 7:09PM ET
Tian's car vandalized shortly after
capturing crooked tow truck driver on
camera
Tian's car vandalized shortly after
capturing crooked tow truck driver on
camera
04/15/2005 03:35 PMMark Frauenfelder:
Blogger Tian discovered that someone smashed his car's windshield and
punctured a tire a couple of days ago. This incident comes shortly
after he took pictures of a
tow truck driver damaging a car. He is offering the
following cash rewards:
I, Tian, am offering the following cash
reward for any useful and usable information regarding the person(s)
responsible for the damage done to my vehicle:
$50 for the name of the person, home and business addresses, and
telephone number(s).
$100 for the information above plus photograph(s) of the person(s)
committing the criminal act.
$200 if the person(s) was then successfully prosecuted in the court
of the law.
$500 for the identification of the person(s) and castration of
their testicles OR cut off their right hand(s).
Linkpassing up an opportunity to go home for
Christmas, so that his colleague could
spend Christmas with his wife and child
passing up an opportunity to go home for
Christmas, so that his colleague could
spend Christmas with his wife and child
12/21/2003 08:35 AMoffers to stay there .. Home News Tribune .. feel good
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what i want for christmas
what i want for christmas
12/24/2002 12:08 AMthe fedex guy pulled up, so exciting, then he walked to the next
house with a ll bean package, rats, but then he came over and said "i
have a big package for you" oh muh gawd...
"tri" Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Postings will continue
next year!
"zeldman.tat"
And It's Not Even Christmas!
And It's Not Even Christmas!
06/02/2004 12:09 PMHere’s a link to a very good list of Freeware programs that can
make your life a little easier-The 46 Best-ever Freeware Utilitiesfrom
Tech Support Alert
What I want for christmas ...
What I want for christmas ...
12/17/2004 06:38 PMCheck out this cute penguin poster. It’s hip without being
explicit. I like it. I want it....
Christmas!!!
Christmas!!!
12/25/2003 04:28 AMHey, so it's finally Christmas! We hope everyone got lots of new
gadgets to play with. Of course, we never get gadgets as gifts
anymore....
What I Don't Want For Christmas
What I Don't Want For Christmas
12/16/2003 03:14 AMThere are a couple of items that the pundits and the rumor sites say
we might see in 2004, and if it's all the same to y'all in Cupertino,
don't bother with these. By Chris Adamson (O'Reilly Network via
MyAppleMenu)
What do you want for Christmas
What do you want for Christmas
12/05/2003 02:12 AMHeck I know what I want for christmas but unless someone is going to
buy Geek News Central or I...
What did you get for Christmas?
What did you get for Christmas?
12/26/2004 07:13 AMTechSpot Dec 26 2004 10:21AM GMT
All I Want For Christmas
All I Want For Christmas
12/24/2003 09:21 PMCBS News Dec 24 2003 8:08PM ET
Christmas came early...and I'm a Jew!
Christmas came early...and I'm a Jew!
12/11/2003 09:39 PMGo see the gingerbread men Jen made for YRSA!!! Oh before I get into
today, I read in The Liberal...
"What Movie Is Your Christmas Most
Like?"
"What Movie Is Your Christmas Most
Like?"
12/27/2004 11:26 AMA white Christmas for sure!
A white Christmas for sure!
01/04/2005 05:49 PMOk, finally got some snow pics to post! Cincinnati officially got
about 9 inches of snow right before Christmas, but...
Merry Christmas to all
Merry Christmas to all
12/24/2003 04:08 AMInternetRetailer.com Dec 24 2003 3:06AM ET
Too many Christmas lights?
Too many Christmas lights?
12/10/2003 07:56 PM Is there such a thing as
too many Christmas lights? I love seeing
lavish
displays of lights at Christmas time. Some folks like a few
old-fashioned
Christmas lights and some like to deck the halls in a blaze of
glory
(this one boasts 700,000 lights). And
how
much does it cost to run a fabulous display?
Dreaming of a 3G Christmas
Dreaming of a 3G Christmas
09/23/2004 02:30 AMMad.co.uk Sep 23 2004 7:01AM GMT
All I want for Christmas is... part I
All I want for Christmas is... part I
12/23/2003 11:46 AMComputer Shopper Dec 23 2003 10:31AM ET
A very kitty Christmas
A very kitty Christmas
12/26/2003 12:39 AMDilsey enjoyed the Christmas tree this year. (8 words)
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The Night before Christmas
The Night before Christmas
12/24/2003 07:05 PM'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the site,
Not a poster was stirring, not even to fight;
Ante and Don were hung by the chimney with care,
In hopes that Spymac 3 would soon be there;
The members were nestled all snug in their beds
While visions of new features danced in their heads;
And Kristie in her 'kerchief and Atari in cap,
Had just settled down for a long winters nap.
More Christmas Freeware
More Christmas Freeware
12/19/2004 03:00 PMWe've got a big holiday just around the corner, but to pass the time
until the Macworld Expo you might as well get into Christmas.
Get the holiday spirit with an odd collection of Christmas-themed
freeware in this week's Freeloader Friday.
[Links from this story may be found on MacMerc.com. Click the title to
delve deeper.]
Best Christmas Destinations
Best Christmas Destinations
12/08/2003 05:52 AM Where Would
You Send Someone You Love For Christmas? If you had unlimited
funds, what would be your Hannukah or Christmas present for someone
you thought really deserved one? For instance, our genial host and the
owner of MetaFilter,
Matt Haughey. A
lot of us are
presently
eng
aged in clubbing in to offer him a short visit to
Iceland. y6y6y6 has even set
up
a
website to solicit funds and suggestions, following
enormous interest
on MetaTalk. Well-known weblogs like
boing boing and
ani
ldash are chipping in too. isn't it time we showed our
appreciation? (
Matt, please don't read or delete this!)
A Christmas Message
A Christmas Message
12/12/2003 11:35 AM(Directed at all those not completely arsed at me for
taking so long to release Textpattern which bytheway continues
full-steam and will almost certainly be out at the beginning of
January oh and did I mention I love you in those shoes.)
Buy me crap!
Christmas Avalanche 1.0.3
Christmas Avalanche 1.0.3
12/12/2003 04:18 PMThe addictive arcade/puzzle game with a Christmas touch.
USB Christmas Tree
USB Christmas Tree
08/30/2004 08:08 AM
If any of you actually buy these USB-Powered
Christmas Trees, you'll have to promise me that everything you put
under your tree will also be a USB device. You could even wrap up
little flash drives as presents and give them away to your office
mates, or maybe put a USB-powered vibrator under there and spend New
Year's filling out unemployment insurance forms.
Read - Catalog Page [MrGadgetAU]
Christmas Gives Us Harmonization
Christmas Gives Us Harmonization
12/25/2003 12:50 AMWesley Willis
died
in August, but the schizophrenic 300-pound street musician's work,
such as "Merry Christmas," continues to make glad the heart of
childhood. (Hosted by
Pr0n.)
(12-25)
A Very Merry Christmas
A Very Merry Christmas
12/25/2003 02:02 PMThis is the BEST Christmas ever. I got everything I wanted and gave
everything I could. It's been absolutely magical - and the day just
started. After all is said and done, I'll list the loot for ya. I'm
very happy, my friends - and I hope that your day / season is turning
out to be just as magical....
Merry ChristmaS
Merry ChristmaS
12/25/2003 04:15 PMHello, and a Merry Christmas to all! We're making this entry via the
wonders of satellite Net access from the...
a Christmas post
a Christmas post
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Yay to the Christmas Party!
Yay to the Christmas Party!
12/20/2003 02:38 PMOoooh, the Christmas party last night...surprisingly enough was
amazing. Right now, Skate Canada is on the verge of pissing me...
Christmas Freeware
Christmas Freeware
12/19/2003 03:50 PMShow the spirit of the season, or just kill some time avoiding
relatives with my Yuletide freeware finds.
Decorate a tree, email Santa and more in this week's Freelaoder Friday.
Like Pixels? Check out MacDesign
Christmas pictures
Christmas pictures
12/31/2003 08:30 PMSheila put up
Christmas
pictures...
Happy New Year to all!
Christmas Greens
Christmas Greens
01/07/2004 02:23 PMThis week's question: What is the environmental impact of the loss of
evergreens for Christmas trees?
The Goats Who Ate Christmas
The Goats Who Ate Christmas
01/16/2004 10:58 AM"Soon after the first goat, another goat came, then another -- and
soon a
stampede
of goats, shaped like a boats prow, was aiming at and ultimately
engulfing the houses. The all-seeing, Sauron-like Goat-Mind soon
located all of the houses -- and we truly had
swarms." (01-12)
Sad Christmas Tree
Sad Christmas Tree
03/06/2004 02:04 AMA Christmas season, many years from now, one of my future children
will ask wistfully why we, as Christmas-celebrating Catholics, don't
partake in the ritual of the Christmas tree. I just know I'm going to
have to recount the story...
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