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dr.strangelove Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-02-04 05:21 PM
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Who/What is your favorite Holiday Film character?
Mine is a toss up

1) Yukon Cornelious, "The Greatest Prospector of the North" from Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer

2) Bert Raccoon from "Raccoons on Ice" and "The Christmas Raccoons"

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goddess40 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-02-04 05:22 PM
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1. Bumbles bounce
I love the bumble
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Saffy Donating Member (85 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-02-04 05:23 PM
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2. Mister South....
remember him? Mr. North's brother? Apparently Mother Nature always liked North better....ah, well.
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kslib Donating Member (485 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-02-04 05:24 PM
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3. Damn You!
That was mine *sniff* :cry:
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dr.strangelove Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-02-04 05:31 PM
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11. What was that in
I remember it . . . somewhere in the mind . . . can't locate it . . . need more RAM
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Left Is Write Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-02-04 06:19 PM
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31. The Year Without A Santa Claus.
Which is on the ABC Family Channel tonight!

The brothers are Heat Miser and Snow Miser.

"I'm Mr. Green Christmas, I'm Mr. Sun! I'm Mr. Heat Blister, I'm Mr. Hundred-and-one! They call me Heat Miser, whatever I touch, starts to melt in my clutch...I'm too much!"
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dr.strangelove Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-02-04 06:48 PM
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40. I remember the song now. Thanks a lot
that'll be in the head for the whole train ride home.
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Left Is Write Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-02-04 06:59 PM
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47. Sorry!
I rather like it, but as an earworm I guess it could be irritating.
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goddess40 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-02-04 05:42 PM
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18. I love it when he sings
Edited on Thu Dec-02-04 05:43 PM by goddess40
Edit: Is that where Everyone Loves Raymond comes from?
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borlis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-02-04 05:24 PM
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4. Chevy Chase as good old Clark W, Griswold
I just love Christmas Vacation. Especially when Clark is locked in the attic watching old movies and crying.
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dr.strangelove Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-02-04 05:35 PM
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14. Classic
Ellen- What are you looking at?
Clark- Oh, the silent majesty of a winter's morning, the clean, cool chill of the holiday air. Eddie in his bathrobe emptying a chemical toilet into my sewer.
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RubyDuby in GA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-02-04 06:12 PM
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27. Shitters full!
Can you imagine the field day I had when my parents needed their septic tank pumped out???? :evilgrin: Oh god......things like that only come along on such rare occasions.
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dr.strangelove Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-02-04 06:15 PM
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29. That is just to funny, and too gross.
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smbolisnch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-02-04 06:00 PM
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24. Absolutely. Aunt Bethany is up there too.....
"Don't throw me down Clark!" "Is Rusty still in the navy??"
LOVE that movie!
Welcome to DU!!! :hi:
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Catchawave Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-02-04 06:50 PM
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43. Me too. I love the Griswolds....
...just too normal, dysfunctional family and all.
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ohiosmith Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-02-04 05:26 PM
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5. Ralphie.
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Menshevik Donating Member (674 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-02-04 05:40 PM
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16. agreed!
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u4ic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-02-04 08:50 PM
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53. I love the dad
played by Darren McGavin. Reminds me of my own when I was little. lol

Alistair Sim did a brilliant Scrooge. A wonderful comic actor, it was ever so subtle, and he gave the character a very full range. And Fezziwig, because I like the name.
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tk2kewl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-02-04 05:28 PM
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6. Heat mizer
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Forkboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-02-04 05:46 PM
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19. Definatly the Heat Miser
I'm Mister Green Christmas
I'm Mister Sun
I'm Mister Heat Blister
I'm Mister Hundred and One
They call me Heat Miser,
What ever I touch
Starts to melt in my clutch
I'm too much!
He's Mister Green Christmas
He's Mister Sun
He's Mister Heat Blister
He's Mister Hundred and One
They call me Heat Miser,
What ever I touch
Starts to melt in my clutch
He's too much!
Thank you!
I never want to see a day
That's under sixty degrees
I'd rather have it eighty,
Ninety, one hundred degrees!

Oh, some like it hot, but I like it
REALLY hot! Hee hee!
He's Mister Green Christmas
He's Mister Sun

Heat Miser Hairdo
Sing it!
He's Mister Heat Blister
He's Mister Hundred and One
They call me Heat Miser,
What ever I touch
Starts to melt in my clutch
I'm too much!
Too Much!
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jackelope72 Donating Member (726 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-02-04 05:28 PM
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7. It's a toss-up:
Carol Kane as The Ghost of Christmas Present in "Scrooged"

or

Will Ferrell as Buddy in "Elf"
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dr.strangelove Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-02-04 06:00 PM
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25. I forgot how good Carol Kane was
in that role. She always killed me in Taxi.
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Lavender Brown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-02-04 05:28 PM
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8. I'm going to be unoriginal and go with George Bailey.
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dr.strangelove Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-02-04 05:30 PM
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9. George is high on my list too
I love his brutal honesty. Makes me feel that there is something to this secular holiday.
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GoddessOfGuinness Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-02-04 05:31 PM
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10. Cary Grant as Dudley...an angel
Loretta Young and David Niven are wonderful in "The Bishop's Wife", too!
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Lavender Brown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-02-04 05:34 PM
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12. I love that movie
I love the scene where Cary Grant plays the song that the old lady's husband wrote for her... :)
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GoddessOfGuinness Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-02-04 05:58 PM
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22. I've often wondered who played the harp in that scene...
I'm sure it wasn't Archie, but it sure looks like it is!
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winston61 Donating Member (642 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-02-04 05:51 PM
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21. My wife just melts as the sight of Dudley
For myself it has to to be the Ghost of Christmas Present from 'A Christmas Carol'. I liked way Edward Woodard played the role.
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GoddessOfGuinness Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-02-04 05:59 PM
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23. Which version was Woodard in?
I can only remember the names of the Scrooges!
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winston61 Donating Member (642 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-02-04 06:11 PM
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26. The version with George Scott as Scrooge
I just love those larger than life Brit actors who really chew the scenery and let it all go.
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GoddessOfGuinness Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-02-04 06:26 PM
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33. That's a great version of it...
I like the Patrick Stewart one, too.
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Seabiscuit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-02-04 08:50 PM
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55. Alistair Sim as Scrooge in the b&w 1935 classic, "A Christmas Carol".
Hands down.
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MidwestMomma Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-02-04 08:56 PM
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56. "I feel as giddy as a school girl"
as he scampers about his room.

One of my all time favorite movie scenes.
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Seabiscuit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-02-04 09:26 PM
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57. And right after that he fluffs his hair at his maid and she runs screaming
from the room with him hot on her heels.
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sportndandy Donating Member (710 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-02-04 05:35 PM
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13. Heat Miser and Cold Miser
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Left Is Write Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-02-04 06:20 PM
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32. Not to be nitpicky, but...
...it's Snow Miser. :)
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Bok_Tukalo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-02-04 05:36 PM
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15. Jack Skellington
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Chovexani Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-02-04 08:41 PM
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52. Me too!
I love that movie.
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Anakin Skywalker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-02-04 05:42 PM
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17. Jason Voorhee and Michael Myers.
Oh wait. You are talking THIS upcoming holiday?
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dr.strangelove Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-02-04 05:50 PM
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20. No, any holiday will do.
I never thought of Friday the 13ths as Halloween movies. Just horror though. I'll give you Michael though, that dude was all kinds of fucked up. He scared my for years.
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RubyDuby in GA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-02-04 06:14 PM
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28. Ok, it's not my favorite, but I have a question
Am I the only person on earth, besides my family, to have ever seen a show called Emmett Otter's Jug Band Christmas? It definitely had to be the 80s when this came out.

Bizarre the things that stick in a kid's head...
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dr.strangelove Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-02-04 06:17 PM
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30. OH MY GOD!!
I love the Jug Band Christmas.
Ain't no hole in the washtub.

I always loved that movie. I bought it for Mrs. Strangelove on VHS last year b/c I could not find it on dvd.
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GoddessOfGuinness Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-02-04 06:27 PM
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34. That's one of my son's favorites...
You can get it on DVD.
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RubyDuby in GA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-02-04 06:40 PM
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35. Whoooohooooo!!
Thanks for the info.
The search is on!
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dr.strangelove Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-02-04 06:47 PM
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39. I found it on Ebay.
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RubyDuby in GA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-02-04 06:49 PM
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41. I will form a cult in your name
and worship you for the god you most surely are.

My mom has been wanting this for a long long time.
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dr.strangelove Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-02-04 06:51 PM
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45. That brought a smile to my face at the end of a long hard day.
I prefer to be worshipped on Tuesdays after 3:00.
I hope your mom gets a kick out of it. I love that film.
The Jug Band was robbed though. They should have won easily.
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GoddessOfGuinness Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-02-04 06:59 PM
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48. They should have, but
they did end up getting a regular gig out of it!
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dr.strangelove Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-02-04 06:47 PM
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38. WHERE? I tried Amazon last year
I will try now.
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GoddessOfGuinness Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-02-04 06:49 PM
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42. Do try...
I'm sure I got it from Amazon last year. It might have been sold out when you tried to get it.
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dr.strangelove Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-02-04 06:50 PM
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44. see below - found it on ebay in one search
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GoddessOfGuinness Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-02-04 06:58 PM
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46. Great!
Glad you located it!
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Hans Delbrook Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-02-04 08:50 PM
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54. Kermit
..from A Muppet Family Christmas. (I love how calm he is among the chaos.)
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VTdem Donating Member (188 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-02-04 06:42 PM
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36. Ebenezer Scrooge from the Disney cartoon
version. Donald Duck plays him i think.
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dr.strangelove Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-02-04 06:46 PM
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37. Its Uncle Scrooge McDuck who plays him
He later was in the Duck Tales series and kept the name Scrooge McDuck.
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VTdem Donating Member (188 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-02-04 08:39 PM
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49. Your right
He was a funny character
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Zomby Woof Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-02-04 08:40 PM
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50. The Old Man!
I like him so much, I am playing him on stage!
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UberSG-1Fan Donating Member (3 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-02-04 08:41 PM
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51. Gotta Go with George Bailey and of course ...
Ebeneezer Scrooge...
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