Chri$tma$
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
The Queen's Christmas broadcast,m 2010 (video):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8wYmxvpN_s
The Queen's Christmas broadcast 2011 (video):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UE0W_ffgLPQ
The Queen's Christmas broadcast 2012 (video):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdsqRaxWnKQ
The Queen's Christmas broadcast 2015 (video):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Mzor6Hf1tY
The Queen's Christmas broadcast 2016 (video):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zscqxgDc9f8
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
I)
SONGS: 1) Tom Lehrer, A Christmas Carol [annotated
text + X
sound]
2) Stan
Freberg, GREEN CHRI$TMA$ [song text + X
sound]
3)
Stan Freberg, CHRI$TMA$ DRAGNET [song
text + X
sound]
4) Bing Crosby: a) White
Christmas [song
text + X
sound]
b) Jingle Bells
[song text + X
sound]
c) Santa Claus Is Coming To
town [song
text + X
sound]
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, #440
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://humour.50megs.com/blackadder/ba_cc.html
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)
6)
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 14 cartoons, more to follow]
6)
Jack
London, To Build a Fire
7) Politically correct Christmas
8) Blackadder's Christmas Carol
[transcript, see 4a above]]
9) Christmas Word Hunt
CARTOON
(1)
CARTOON
(2)
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