Ismet Inonu Turkish statesman died at his home on 1973.
Tristan Tzara, poet
and essayist and founder of
Dada, the nihilistic revolutionary movement in the arts died in Paris1963
Joan Miró, Spanish Surrealist Painter and Sculptor died on Christmas day 1983.
Nicolae Ceauşescu the Romanian
dictator was executed in his
palace in 1989.
American
baseball player and manager Billy Martin died on December 25th 1989.
One Christmas, a long time ago
Santa Claus was trying to prepare
For the biggest night of the year
But events left him in despair
A flu epidemic hit the North Pole
And decimated the Elves
And a shortage of helpers
Meant there were empty shelves
The reindeer were rebellious
And Rudolph’s nose was Normal
His parcel sack had a hole in it
And Mrs Claus was menopausal
As a result of all his trials
He was not in the best frame of mind
So when a Fairy approached him
With good intent and being kind
Who was carrying an evergreen
And the Fairy asked cheerfully
“Where would you like me to put
This lovely Christmas Tree?”
Because of his really bad mood
He answered her unseasonably
And thus began the tradition
Of a Fairy atop the Christmas tree
Twas the night before Christmas,
And all through the abode
Only one creature was stirring,
But
she was on the commode
Claudia Larson (Holly Hunter) loses her job and is so stunned that she momentarily kisses her soon to be ex-boss, Peter Arnold (Austin Pendleton), and to make matters worse she later finds out that her daughter Kitt (Claire Danes) plans to spend Thanksgiving with her boyfriend and surrender her virginity in the process.
So Claudia has to make the dreaded flight to her
home town to face spending the holiday with her family dysfunctional family,
parents Adele and Henry (Anne Bancroft and Charles Durning), brother Tommy
(Robert Downey Jr), sister Joanne (Cynthia Stevenson) and her husband Walter
Wedman (Steve Guttenberg), and Aunt Glady (Geraldine Chaplin), she just hopes
she can survive their crazy antics.
There is however a voice of sanity provided by
Tommy’s friend Leo Fish (Dylan McDermott) but will that be enough to make the
sojourn worthwhile.
Kenny Stabler, American football born 1945
Larry Csonka, American football born 1946
Rickey Henderson, baseball born 1958
There is an old saying
Which
we now tend to disregard
Which
goes “a green Christmas
Makes
for a fat churchyard”
Ice that will, before Christmas,
Bear
the weight of Santa
Will
not, according to folklore,
Bear the weight of an Elf after
