Reminds me of the "Yule Log" loop that Hallmark Movies & Mysteries ran during Christmas. It featured dogs and cats cavorting in front of a fireplace. Kind of cool.
Before credit cards as we know them now, there was this thing called lay-away. MrsO told me that's how she could afford nice clothes when she was a poor single working girl.
Don't know who created that iconic hairdo. After the original Star Wars movie, my older daughter had MrsO do her hair up like that. Wish I had taken a photo.
Many of the individual states in the US have odds laws. I remember getting yelled at in Maine when I dared to carry my beer from the bar to a table. At closing time, it is really closing time. The glasses are gone and there in no "nursing" that last drink. I noticed Ontario Canada changed the name of their provincial beer outlets from the classy "Brewer's Retail" to the more blunt "Beer Store".
The subject was a topic of mine to my students when I was teaching. A door that was always "closed" yet people could get in and out through them. They had to use them in inflated dome stadiums like the Carrier Dome in Syracuse. When I officiated football games there, we had to enter trough a double door "air lock" entry.
True if you ever won an insane amount of money, it would change your life forever and possibly in bad ways. I play the Fantasy 5 here almost daily for $1 and once won $1200 with 4 numbers on a rollover day. I also play the Lotto here on Wed and Sat for $1. Once I had 5 numbers and won $7K. Went to the local Lotto office to pick up my winnings and Uncle Sam took out $1500 for his share. I understand Canada winners up there do not have to pay income tax on winning their lotteries.
For MrsO, no Christmas season is complete w/o viewing the Grinch cartoon on TV. When our kids were little, we had Christmas Roast Beast for dinner on Christmas Day. We still keep that tradition to this day, and hope to have passed it on to our children and grandchildren.
$5 tip for say a $100 tab is insulting. Maybe is you laid out five $5 bills it would be better. Of course, you should really never "tip" your tip. For absolutely horrible service the ultimate insult tip is a penny face down. I've done that twice in my life.
I'm still a sucker for that flick. I will watch parts of it again. I lived on Cleveland Ave. in Syracuse and went to Garfield School as a kid around the time that the story is set. I remember the toys in the department store windows. No, I never got a BB gun.
Recalling open and uncovered trucks full of tomatoes rolling north along I-5 in tomato country. When they went over a bridge, some tomatoes spilled out onto the road. Squirrels would run out on the road to eat them. Yes, lots of road kill.
The Grich is a must for MrsO. I'm guessing Jean Shepard's "A Christmas Story +" will be run 24 hours on one of the satellite cable stations on Christmas Day.
I find the NoKo "news" fun to watch on YouTube. A lot of it involves people in neatly formed and dressed groups placing flowers at statues/photos of the deceased Kim leaders.Others are photos of spanking new factories and other projects of the regime. English subtitles are usually missing, so I provide my own probably more amusing comments as I watch. They end with the latest weather report that doesn't mention weather anywhere else.
I recall a raven that was "mooching" food from cars lined up to board the Lake Champlain Ferry to Burlington VT. Read later that there were ravens native to that area.
+" will be run 24 hours on one of the satellite cable stations on Christmas Day.