Re: Merry Christmas!! (was: Hey!)

["Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah" <rMslade () shaw ca>]

Date sent:              Thu, 24 Dec 2009 11:09:59 -0800 (PST)
From:                   chris () blask org

> --- On Wed, 12/23/09, Phil Dyer <phil () pdyer net> wrote:
>
> We're atheists, so of course we do Christmas with *all* the bells! :~)
>
> > bring on 24 hrs of "A Christmas Story" !
>
> Watched that a few days ago, may find itself being played tomorrow again: 
>
> o  Miracle on 34th Street last night (the real one, caught a few minutes of the
> remake - ACK!),

*Which* remake: there have been at least three ...

> o Scrooge (Alistair Sim, of course)

Truest to Dickens, but I do like parts of the Muppet version

> White Christmas a day or two ago (and tomorrow morning)

Tried to get it from the library, but somebody is hogging it.  Did get Holiday Inn, 
which I think I've seen, but can't recall.

> Which ones am I missing?

There was one, can't recall the name offhand, I believe it was a Disney tearjerker 
(father dies just before Christmas, mother struggling on with family, no money, 
etc, had a dead cowboy as an angel, and, of course, manage to resurrect Dad at the 
end).  Reason I remember it was that, although set in the US, it was shot in 
Canada.  Did the usual attempts to hide the fact, including covering the Bank of 
Montreal signage on the bank (where the mother is denied a loan, or something), 
but kept the extremely identifiable clocks.  Also had a scene where the angel 
retrieves a letter from the mailbox, complete with bright glows from inside and 
letter shooting out into his hand.  The machine doing the effects was built for US 
mailbox size, and, although they repainted the Canadian mailbox blue, the 
dimensions were different, and the thing had to be rejigged for the larger box.

======================  (quote inserted randomly by Pegasus Mailer)
rslade () vcn bc ca     slade () victoria tc ca     rslade () computercrime org
There is no such thing as `computer illiteracy;'
      only illiteracy itself      - Slade's Law of Computer Literacy
victoria.tc.ca/techrev/rms.htm blog.isc2.org/isc2_blog/slade/index.html
http://blogs.securiteam.com/index.php/archives/author/p1/
http://twitter.com/NoticeBored http://twitter.com/rslade
_______________________________________________
Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts.
https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec
Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.