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by **drsmooth** » Sat Dec 19, 2009 17:31:38

Christmas tunes no manger should be without:

What Will Santa Claus Say? (Harry Allen)

How Santa Got Thin (Al Grey)

Oh Come Oh Come Emmanuel (Hilton Ruiz)

by **21McBride** » Sat Dec 19, 2009 17:35:35

Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis - Neko Case version of Tom Waits song (Tom Waits is fine too)
God Bless Ye Merry Gentlemen - Lou Rawls
Snowbound - Sarah Vaughn
Old Toy Trains - Roger Miller
The Bells of Dublin / Christmas Eve - Chieftains

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12qBoy2rhVw[/youtube]

by **drsmooth** » Sat Dec 19, 2009 18:00:06

21McBride wrote:Snowbound - Sarah Vaughn

awwww hell yea

a couple others

Winter's Got Spring Up Its Sleeve (June Christy)

Winter Wonderland Ken Peplowski/Howard Alden

by **TenuredVulture** » Sat Dec 19, 2009 18:02:20

jerseyhoya wrote:
MrsVox wrote:
CalvinBall wrote:just ventured out and rented harry potter and star trek. i have never seen either. i know hp is supposed to suck but i have seen the other 5 so i may as well see this one on this crappy day.

I'm pretty critcial of the HP movies, and I thought this one was probably the best. It wasn't all rush rush rush outpouring of information.

It got an 83% on Rotten Tomatoes. I mostly liked it. I have no idea why Calvin is saying it was supposed to suck.

I think Calvin's a glass half empty kind of guy.

by **CalvinBall** » Sat Dec 19, 2009 18:03:32

that is what people told me. i trusted them.

by **TenuredVulture** » Sat Dec 19, 2009 18:05:00

The HP movies aren't great, but they don't suck. Unless there's something worse than sucking for movies like the recently discussed Phantom Menace.

by **drsmooth** » Sat Dec 19, 2009 18:09:41

oh yea you should also have Carla Bley's Jingle Bells SoCa from NPR's A Jazz Piano Christmas, from around 2003, but apparently it's been discontinued & is hard to get except at absurd prices

by **SK790** » Sat Dec 19, 2009 21:35:33

The PA announcer in NO is loud.

by **Houshphandzadeh** » Sat Dec 19, 2009 21:48:47

there's really six Potter movies?

by **TenuredVulture** » Sat Dec 19, 2009 21:49:09

Houshphandzadeh wrote:there's really six Potter movies?

Yep. And two more to go.

by **phatj** » Sat Dec 19, 2009 22:09:24

TenuredVulture wrote:
Houshphandzadeh wrote:there's really six Potter movies?

Yep. And two more to go.

Sort of. The seventh book is being released as two films because it's too long to be done in a normal-length movie.

by **jerseyhoya** » Sat Dec 19, 2009 22:12:49

There are few things in life more frustrating than missing the front end of the 1 and 1

by **td11** » Sat Dec 19, 2009 22:13:16

what's a 1 and 1

by **jerseyhoya** » Sat Dec 19, 2009 22:14:46

td11 wrote:what's a 1 and 1

On the 7th, 8th and 9th team fouls of the half if it's not a shooting foul, your team shoots a 1 and 1.

Georgetown missed three or four front ends tonight

Brutal

by **phatj** » Sat Dec 19, 2009 22:15:35

td11 wrote:what's a 1 and 1

Free throws in basketball. I forget exactly when you shoot a 1-and-1 vs. just two FTs, but it means that you only get to shoot a second if you make the first.

by **TenuredVulture** » Sat Dec 19, 2009 22:15:56

jerseyhoya wrote:
td11 wrote:what's a 1 and 1

On the 7th, 8th and 9th team fouls of the half if it's not a shooting foul, your team shoots a 1 and 1.

Georgetown missed three or four front ends tonight

Brutal

The critical point is that you have to make the first shot in order to take the second shot. If you miss the first shot, it's a live ball.

by **jerseyhoya** » Sat Dec 19, 2009 22:16:58

Yeah that's why missing the front end is bad. That was not my best explanation ever.

by **TenuredVulture** » Sat Dec 19, 2009 22:17:27

You don't spend enough time talking to 8 year olds.

by **TenuredVulture** » Sat Dec 19, 2009 22:17:39

Or college students.

by **Phan In Phlorida** » Sat Dec 19, 2009 23:44:49

If I were a bowler, this would be my bowling ball

I wanted something that would make the bowlers around me stand up and take note of the awesomeness of my bowling ball; People can't help but stop and watch this giant eyeball roll down the lane.

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