Posts Tagged ‘December’

It’s the most wonderful time of the year. Time for family and complete strangers to gather ‘round and eat your cookies. Time for standing in long lines to buy stuff for the increasingly ungrateful little wretches who gather around the tree like vultures around a carcass. Ok. Sorry. I got carried away. We love these…

  Welcome to our second instalment of A Laugh Again Christmas Quiz. It’s time for you to put your Christmas IQ to the test. Quick, gather your friends and family around the radio and keep track of your score. 1. According to the Bible, Jacob Marley was: a) The third wise man in the book…

I like human beings. I happen to be married to one, I’m the father of three more, and they are wonderful creatures. But I’ll be honest, there are times I prefer the company of animals. Like the 7-pound fur ball that licks peanut butter off my fingers each morning. So in honour of the critters that…

Isn’t it hard to believe another year has come and gone? Time waits for no man, and very few women, my father would say. Like the New Year, the wise men came after Christmas. They’re not really part of the nativity set. Scholars believe the magi were Gentiles who had come from the east and…

Christmases of my childhood were magical times and few things were more magical than the Christmas program, a time when kids sang badly to great applause and sometimes raucous laugher. The climax was the end of the program when we each received a candy bag. Danny Brown took up residence in the desk behind me…

How is your Christmas IQ? Here’s a chance to find out. Quickly gather the family and take our first ever Laugh Again Christmas Quiz. Ready? Question 1) Which is the name of one of Santa’s reindeer? a. Rudolph b. Olive Think about it. If you said Rudolph? You’re right! If you guessed Olive? You’re also…

Once a year we children searched the skies for Grandpa. He always touched down during the Christmas season, so we would wait in the airport, our noses pressed against the frozen glass in painful anticipation. We admired Grandpa for several reasons. For one thing, he was the only one I knew who drank cough syrup…

A friend admitted to me that the most stressful season of the year is Christmas. There’s presents. Parties. Decorating. Relatives. And decorating relatives. “We must get enough gifts and not favour one child over the other. Three days after Christmas toys are busted or discarded and the kids are playing with the boxes the gifts…