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HAVE A COOL YULE AND A FESTIVE FIRST!

The Queen's (first televised) Christmas broadcast (1957): www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBRP-o6Q85s

The Queen's Christmas broadcast, 2007 (text): http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7159758.stm

The Queen's Christmas broadcast, 2008 (video): www.veoh.com/browse/videos/category/news_world/watch/v170237362gjS36Ys#

The Queen's Christmas broadcast, 2009(video): www.youtube.com/watch?v=oldI0UrizQM 

CHRI$TMA$ time is here by golly,

Disapproval would be folly

Deck the halls with hunks of holly,

Fill the cup and don't say "when" .....

from: Tom Lehrer, A CHRISTMAS CAROL

www.wiw.org/~drz/tom.lehrer 

I) SONGS:  1) Tom Lehrer, A Christmas Carol    [annotated text + sound]
                    2) Stan Freberg, GREEN CHRI$TMA$  [song text + sound]
                    3) Stan Freberg, CHRI$TMA$ DRAGNET [song text + sound]
                         4) Bing Crosby: a) White Christmas  b) Jingle Bells  c) Santa Claus Is Coming To town
PLUS (NEW):  X sound: Fairytale of New York, The Pogues  text: Fairytale of New York

II) Stories:  1) Paul Auster, Auggie Wren's Christmas Story [from the movie "Smoke"]
                         cf.  www.singleton.de/Auggi-Wrens-Weihnachtsgeschichte-Deutsch/3934120679.html
                    2) Truman Capote, A Christmas Memory    [my personal favo(u)rite, W.E.P.]
                    3)  Truman Capote, One Christmas
                    4)  A Visit from Saint Nicholas, by James Thurber (1927)
                    5)  Christmas Is a Sad Season for the Poor, by John Cheever (1949)
                    6)  The Carol Sing, by John Updike (1970)

III) "Fun":  1)CHRI$TMA$ CRACKERS  [jokes, jokes,  ...]    
                    2) JOKES: #23,  #24,  #73,  #74,  #75,  #127,  #128,  #179,  #180,  #230,  #231)
                    3)Knock, knock, who's there? Christmas version ["Knock-Knock-Jokes"]
                    4a) Fans of Rowan Atkinson will enjoy "Blackadder's Christmas Carol". The video of this
                         VERY FUNNY episode in the "Blackadder Series" is available from W.E.P., just get in
                         touch with him. The complete script can be found under the following address:
                                            http://www.geocities.com/TelevisionCity/7539/blackadder_xmas_script.htm
              NEW: 4b) Blackadder's Christmas on youtube
                    5a) Art Buchwald, "Santa Claus" (8 articles) 
                    5b) Art Buchwald: "Santa Bush ..."  (December 12, 2003)
                    5c) Art Buchwald: "Holy After-Christmas Sale!" (December 25, 2003)
                     5) CHRI$TMAS CARTOONS: so far 16 cartoons plus 3 "extras" [see two examples below]
                                                                                                                                                                                                               
                    7) Merchant Banker or "Charity Sketch", CHRI$TMA$ version
                    8) http://web.icq.com/shockwave/0,,4845,00.swf [CHRI$TMA$, AMERICAN STYLE!!!!!!]

IV) Etc.:       1) Authorized King James Version (1611), St. Luke & St. Matthew
                          2) "Listening Comprehension": two 90-minute cassettes: "CHRI$TMA$ I" & "CHRI$TMA$ II"
                           3) From Dickens to Disney, The Guardian, December 20, 2003
                     4) Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus
                     5) Wintertime [so far 5 cartoons, more to follow]
                          6) Jack London, To Build a Fire
                     7)  Politically correct Christmas
                      8) Blackadder's Christmas Carol [transcript]
                      9) Christmas Word Hunt  

CARTOON (1)

CARTOON (2)


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