Saturday, December 22, 2012

Fifty Years of Holiday Memories-- Part 3: The Eighties

REMEMEBER?  Cutting down you own tree

KITCHEN SMELLED LIKE:  Honey-baked ham

ON THE CASSETTE PLAYER:  "Do They Know It's Christmas" by Band Aid

ON THE TUBE:  Roots: The Gift, Johnny Carson's fruitcake jokes.

IN THEATERS:  National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (My second favorite Christmas movie, Scrooged, and "A Christmas Story" (My favorite.)

UNDER THE TREE:  Transformers, Cabbage Patch Kids, Rubik's Cube

FOR ME:  Our mutt Brandy "tearing into her presents."  Paper everywhere and Lord help you if you tried to take something away.

Yo-Ho-Ho.  --Cooter

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