Comic for Friday, December 8th, 2006

Posted: 7:35 am, Friday, December 8th

I came up with this one before the whole Pete-meets-Cece adventure, just liking Ron's dismissing of Pete's excitement with a deadpan, "That would be stupid," while drinking his coffee. Something about that, I really liked. I wonder what made me think describing the fourth panel of the strip would be a good idea... Let's move on.

Here's a list of media company Christmas parties (complete with a report on my favorite, News Corp., on the last page), all of which are going to be way more cool than my office's Christmas party come Tuesday. In an interesting twist, we're having our party during the day this year in order to drive up attendence. I wonder why the powers that be don't realize this means people are just going to down about five drinks and then leave as soon as possible because we all hate each other around here? I'm talking too much today, sorry.

One of my favorite albums that I got this year was the Go! Team's Thunder Lightning Strike. It evidently came out in 2004 over in Merry Olde, so I don't know if I'll list it with my top five for the year, but I'm getting off topic. The Team was evidently forced by economics to sell out to The Man. It's a shame, but at least it's still a really catchy song.

The Rock busts out some graduation rates for major football programs (and Boston Collitch). Our Sugar Bowl opponent, LSU, graduates footballers at a shameful 49% rate, while the Irish are once again up in the 95% area. Due to its not being in the south, I'm always amazed how bad USC's grad rate is. 55%? Yeesh, squad.

Dear Lord, the Irish beat #5 Alabama 99-85 last night. MNP, what's going on here? And, oh, hey, Brady won the Maxwell. That's fun.

So, we decked the tree last night, and I made some eggnog, and then we sat down with ktbb's tape that dear CK loaned to us back in like March or something, and we watched the Claymation Christmas Special. I hadn't seen the thing since, geez, fifth grade, maybe? It was as awesome as I remembered it to be, although 2.0 didn't seem to be too impressed. But it's awesome, she doesn't know what she's talking about. Check out the Carol of the Bells:

I also really like the Joy to the World:

And one final YouTube going into the weekend. There's really no end of questions you could ask about this little short, so why even *begin* to ask them?

Oh, and, fuck it, let's drop a 300 pound safe on a Buick.

bullfrog

I totally forgot about the claymation Xmas. Now I am bummed I missed it.

the Irish last night looked GOOD. okay, they still really need to work on rebounding, but they actually moved the ball instead of just standing around waiting for a shot. and we have big MEN!! notice the plural. the ND Basketball boards (yes, there are people who care about ND basketball besides me) were all over Brey for giving out 4 scholarships, but I think he was just trying to save his job. and who knows, it might work. Or, alternatively, beating 2 top-20 teams could be an exact replica of 2002-2003 where we beat 3 top-20 teams in 1 week in early December and then went on to do exactly nothing for the next 4 months...but I'm going to be more optimistic than that.

Dude, didn't we make the Sweet 16 that year? That's not terrible.

E, you can find almost all of the Claymation Christmas on YouTube. It wasn't on TV, one of CK's friends has a tape from 1987, that has kindly been loaned to me and that I need to return to its owner for the holidays.

i'm going to the sugar bowl, i'm going to the sugar bowl :)

Congrats, dude. Kick back a hurricane for me.

The Post has no shame. If possible, I posit that it actually has anti-shame. Today's cover:

http://www.nypost.com/seven/12082006/frontback.htm

Here's a Daily News story on the soldier featured on the cover of the Post - it's actually a heartbreaking story.

http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/478326p-402300c.html

Bullfrog, my mom is planning to buy one of those VHS-to-DVD converters at an after-Christmas sale (so our family videos can be committed to disc for all posterity). Anyway, we Kleins have no compunction about copyright protection, so if you can get me that tape back next week or so, I'll have her do the Claymation special too.

No respect for copyright! It's like the Wild West out there in Peculiar.

Bullfrog - thanks for pointing out the fact that I was way too lazy to look up the results of the end of the 02-03 season. you are, of course, as always, correct. so maybe it bodes well for my optimism.

My memory of dates, she is good, da?

Claymation Christmas is only second to the glory that is 'Emmett Otter's Jug Band Christmas'--complete with the plaid-clad form of a leisure-suited Kermit the Frog, whom the modern DVD has almost completely cut out...

C'mon, dewbacks are cold-blooded. How could they survive on a Hoth-like world?