What did make you smile today?
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this is so funny
nightingale+therose
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I got a lovely gift from CG today.. It was most unexpected and amazingly beautiful.
Thank you CG, you've made my day. x
Thank you CG, you've made my day. x
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CrystalGeezer
My secret's my enzyme.
I got a lovely gift from CG today.. It was most unexpected and amazingly beautiful.
Thank you CG, you've made my day. x
Awww, thanks.
This made me smile. I was with my nephew today who is 11. I jokingly called him a pansey because he was playing slugbug and barely tapped me when he saw a yellow VW. He said with authority that he was a mansey, not a pansey. THen when we were running in the rain sharing an umbrella he explained that the pansey part of him being a mansey is that he doesn't like to get his perfectly coiffed hair wet. Otherwise, he's all man.
I lol'd. Mansey is the new metrosexual.
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DAVIE
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I find Kim Woodburn from "How Clean Is Your House?" absolutely amazing and a really funny woman...if only more women had the pure British character like her
Jackie London
♥ Howlin' Pelle
Nordic Quack
Sweden's bizarre tradition of watching Donald Duck cartoons on Christmas Eve.
By Jeremy Stahl
Posted Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2009, at 7:01 AM ET
Update, Dec. 22, 2010: While Americans tend to spend Christmas Eve feasting, caroling, and/or leaving cookies and milk out for Santa, the Swedes' tradition includes the annual viewing of the Kalle Anke Donald Duck cartoon. In 2009, Jeremy Stahl shed some light on this bizarre custom. The article is reprinted below.
Three years ago, I went to Sweden with my then-girlfriend (now-wife), to meet her family and celebrate my first Christmas. As an only partially lapsed Jew, I was not well-versed in Christmas traditions, and I was completely ignorant of Swedish customs and culture. So I was prepared for surprises. I was not prepared for this: Every year on Dec. 24 at 3 p.m., half of Sweden sits down in front of the television for a family viewing of the 1958 Walt Disney Presents Christmas special, "From All of Us to All of You." Or as it is known in Sverige, Kalle Anka och hans vänner önskar God Jul: "Donald Duck and his friends wish you a Merry Christmas."
Kalle Anka and the Aracuan BirdKalle Anka, for short, has been airing without commercial interruption at the same time on Sweden's main public-television channel, TV1, on Christmas Eve (when Swedes traditionally celebrate the holiday) since 1959. The show consists of Jiminy Cricket presenting about a dozen Disney cartoons from the '30s, '40s, '50s, and '60s, only a couple of which have anything to do with Christmas. There are "Silly Symphonies" shorts and clips from films like Cinderella, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, and The Jungle Book. The special is pretty much the same every year, except for the live introduction by a host (who plays the role of Walt Disney from the original Walt Disney Presents series) and the annual addition of one new snippet from the latest Disney-produced movie, which TV1's parent network, SVT, is contractually obligated by Disney to air.
Kalle Anka is typically one of the three most popular television events of the year, with between 40 and 50 percent of the country tuning in to watch. In 2008, the show had its lowest ratings in more than 15 years but was still taken in by 36 percent of the viewing public, some 3,213,000 people. Lines of dialogue from the cartoons have entered common Swedish parlance. Stockholm's Nordic Museum has a display in honor of the show in an exhibit titled "Traditions." Each time the network has attempted to cancel or alter the show, public backlash has been swift and fierce.
Kalle Anka (pronounced kah-lay ahn-kah) gets its name from the star of the show's second animated short, a 1944 cartoon called "Clown of the Jungle," in which Donald Duck is tormented by a demented Aracuan Bird during a luckless ornithological expedition. The short is typical of the random violence of many early Disney cartoons. The sadistic Aracuan (regularly mistaken in Sweden for Hacke Hackspett, or Woody Woodpecker) sprays Kalle with seltzer, bashes his head in with a mallet, blows him up with an exploding cigar, threatens to kill himself simultaneously by hanging and gunshot, and ultimately drives the infuriated Kalle insane.
Watching Kalle Anka for the first time, I was taken aback not only by the datedness of the clips (and the somewhat random dubbing) but also by how seriously my adoptive Swedish family took the show. Nobody talked, except to recite favorite lines along with the characters. My soon-to-be father-in-law, a burly man built like a Scandinavian spruce, laughed at jokes he had obviously heard scores of times before. Nobody blinked at the antiquated animation, the cheesiness of the stories, or even the good-old-fashioned '30s-era Disney-style racism. (In the 1932 "Silly Symphonies" short "Santa's Workshop," there is a scene involving a black doll who yells "Mammy" at the sight of Santa Claus then moons the screen. It was eventually censored from the American version of the cartoon but remains in Kalle Anka.)
The show's cultural significance cannot be understated. You do not tape or DVR Kalle Anka for later viewing. You do not eat or prepare dinner while watching Kalle Anka. Age does not matter—every member of the family is expected to sit quietly together and watch a program that generations of Swedes have been watching for 50 years. Most families plan their entire Christmas around Kalle Anka, from the Smörgåsbord at lunch to the post-Kalle visit from Jultomten. "At 3 o'clock in the afternoon, you can't to do anything else, because Sweden is closed," Lena Kättström Höök, a curator at the Nordic Museum who manages the "Traditions" exhibit, told me. "So even if you don't want to watch it yourself, you can't call anyone else or do anything else, because no one will do it with you."
To Kättström Höök, Sweden's affection for Kalle Anka is tied up with older holiday traditions. "It's the dream of the old peasant village before people moved to towns," she said. "Kalle Anka is almost like gathering around the fire in old times and listening to fairy tales."
Over the last half-century, the characters and sketches have become as much a part of the holiday as the Christmas tree, so much so that each time TV1 has suggested modifying the schedule, public outcry has forced the network to back down. In the 1970s, Helena Sandblad, then head of children's programming, attempted to pull the show off of the air because broadcasting a Disney program didn't jibe with the prevailing political ethos. "Everything was pretty serious in the '70s and anything that was commercial, or considered commercial, was not good, was considered an ugly word," said SVT publicity officer Ursula Haegerström. After newspapers got wind of the plans to cancel the show, the station was bombarded with letters, phone calls, and negative press. Sandblad received personal threats. "That was one of the worst audience storms in our history," Haegerström told me.
Sweden's bizarre tradition of watching Donald Duck cartoons on Christmas Eve.
By Jeremy Stahl
Posted Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2009, at 7:01 AM ET
Update, Dec. 22, 2010: While Americans tend to spend Christmas Eve feasting, caroling, and/or leaving cookies and milk out for Santa, the Swedes' tradition includes the annual viewing of the Kalle Anke Donald Duck cartoon. In 2009, Jeremy Stahl shed some light on this bizarre custom. The article is reprinted below.
Three years ago, I went to Sweden with my then-girlfriend (now-wife), to meet her family and celebrate my first Christmas. As an only partially lapsed Jew, I was not well-versed in Christmas traditions, and I was completely ignorant of Swedish customs and culture. So I was prepared for surprises. I was not prepared for this: Every year on Dec. 24 at 3 p.m., half of Sweden sits down in front of the television for a family viewing of the 1958 Walt Disney Presents Christmas special, "From All of Us to All of You." Or as it is known in Sverige, Kalle Anka och hans vänner önskar God Jul: "Donald Duck and his friends wish you a Merry Christmas."
Kalle Anka and the Aracuan BirdKalle Anka, for short, has been airing without commercial interruption at the same time on Sweden's main public-television channel, TV1, on Christmas Eve (when Swedes traditionally celebrate the holiday) since 1959. The show consists of Jiminy Cricket presenting about a dozen Disney cartoons from the '30s, '40s, '50s, and '60s, only a couple of which have anything to do with Christmas. There are "Silly Symphonies" shorts and clips from films like Cinderella, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, and The Jungle Book. The special is pretty much the same every year, except for the live introduction by a host (who plays the role of Walt Disney from the original Walt Disney Presents series) and the annual addition of one new snippet from the latest Disney-produced movie, which TV1's parent network, SVT, is contractually obligated by Disney to air.
Kalle Anka is typically one of the three most popular television events of the year, with between 40 and 50 percent of the country tuning in to watch. In 2008, the show had its lowest ratings in more than 15 years but was still taken in by 36 percent of the viewing public, some 3,213,000 people. Lines of dialogue from the cartoons have entered common Swedish parlance. Stockholm's Nordic Museum has a display in honor of the show in an exhibit titled "Traditions." Each time the network has attempted to cancel or alter the show, public backlash has been swift and fierce.
Kalle Anka (pronounced kah-lay ahn-kah) gets its name from the star of the show's second animated short, a 1944 cartoon called "Clown of the Jungle," in which Donald Duck is tormented by a demented Aracuan Bird during a luckless ornithological expedition. The short is typical of the random violence of many early Disney cartoons. The sadistic Aracuan (regularly mistaken in Sweden for Hacke Hackspett, or Woody Woodpecker) sprays Kalle with seltzer, bashes his head in with a mallet, blows him up with an exploding cigar, threatens to kill himself simultaneously by hanging and gunshot, and ultimately drives the infuriated Kalle insane.
Watching Kalle Anka for the first time, I was taken aback not only by the datedness of the clips (and the somewhat random dubbing) but also by how seriously my adoptive Swedish family took the show. Nobody talked, except to recite favorite lines along with the characters. My soon-to-be father-in-law, a burly man built like a Scandinavian spruce, laughed at jokes he had obviously heard scores of times before. Nobody blinked at the antiquated animation, the cheesiness of the stories, or even the good-old-fashioned '30s-era Disney-style racism. (In the 1932 "Silly Symphonies" short "Santa's Workshop," there is a scene involving a black doll who yells "Mammy" at the sight of Santa Claus then moons the screen. It was eventually censored from the American version of the cartoon but remains in Kalle Anka.)
The show's cultural significance cannot be understated. You do not tape or DVR Kalle Anka for later viewing. You do not eat or prepare dinner while watching Kalle Anka. Age does not matter—every member of the family is expected to sit quietly together and watch a program that generations of Swedes have been watching for 50 years. Most families plan their entire Christmas around Kalle Anka, from the Smörgåsbord at lunch to the post-Kalle visit from Jultomten. "At 3 o'clock in the afternoon, you can't to do anything else, because Sweden is closed," Lena Kättström Höök, a curator at the Nordic Museum who manages the "Traditions" exhibit, told me. "So even if you don't want to watch it yourself, you can't call anyone else or do anything else, because no one will do it with you."
To Kättström Höök, Sweden's affection for Kalle Anka is tied up with older holiday traditions. "It's the dream of the old peasant village before people moved to towns," she said. "Kalle Anka is almost like gathering around the fire in old times and listening to fairy tales."
Over the last half-century, the characters and sketches have become as much a part of the holiday as the Christmas tree, so much so that each time TV1 has suggested modifying the schedule, public outcry has forced the network to back down. In the 1970s, Helena Sandblad, then head of children's programming, attempted to pull the show off of the air because broadcasting a Disney program didn't jibe with the prevailing political ethos. "Everything was pretty serious in the '70s and anything that was commercial, or considered commercial, was not good, was considered an ugly word," said SVT publicity officer Ursula Haegerström. After newspapers got wind of the plans to cancel the show, the station was bombarded with letters, phone calls, and negative press. Sandblad received personal threats. "That was one of the worst audience storms in our history," Haegerström told me.
sistasheila
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KenzieW
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Playing "Ziggy Stardust" on my guitar. (I didn't play it very well, but it was my first time playing it and it was so much fun!)
billy scissors
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Playing "Ziggy Stardust" on my guitar. (I didn't play it very well, but it was my first time playing it and it was so much fun!)
This reminds me.Ive seen someone,somewhere, calling themselves Ziggyt Sardust in the last couple of days,but cant remember where
CrystalGeezer
My secret's my enzyme.
I just read that cupcakes have officially become passe. If I ever get married and have a wedding, I'm have cake. A big slab for everyone and a corner piece for me. Eff this cupcake business.
Jackie London
♥ Howlin' Pelle
Christmas with my overfertile family is always a chaos every year. This year is no exception. In the middle of all the chaos I overheard a conversation between my cousin and our grandmother when my cousin showed some photos;
-But how strange his head looks. What a strange dog...
-He's wearing my hat....
-Is that your brother's girlfriend?
-No, that's my brother. Your grandchild you know....
-Who is she?
-He. It's Fredrick, Helena's boyfriend.
-But how strange his head looks. What a strange dog...
-He's wearing my hat....
-Is that your brother's girlfriend?
-No, that's my brother. Your grandchild you know....
-Who is she?
-He. It's Fredrick, Helena's boyfriend.
Raphael Lambach
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I'm truly lucky. This year I reached most of my goals, then I'm sure I can and deserve to be smiling.
half a person
Active Member
not feeling sick this morning
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KenzieW
Guest
Many things:
I got mac makeup and the lady at the makeup counter did my makeup. I look great!
How soon is now and cut copy played at the mall.
The guy that sat at the table next to mine looked a lot like james dean. Another guy in the restaurant looked like Cameron from ferris bueller.
I got cute jeans.
I got mac makeup and the lady at the makeup counter did my makeup. I look great!
How soon is now and cut copy played at the mall.
The guy that sat at the table next to mine looked a lot like james dean. Another guy in the restaurant looked like Cameron from ferris bueller.
I got cute jeans.
CrystalGeezer
My secret's my enzyme.
Gambling is for losers.
Black Cloud
Case Sensitive
Charlie Manson's cellphone.
Barking
Dogshow Business
driving through Bollington
trying to keep my head screwed on
I was philosophizing some
checking out the sheep
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7TTFUbZsM0
(it's not that steeeep...)
trying to keep my head screwed on
I was philosophizing some
checking out the sheep
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7TTFUbZsM0
(it's not that steeeep...)
nightingale+therose
...brush me daddy-o
... the dream that the herpes currently plaguing my top lip was contracted courtesy of some filthy hot men, rather than some dear old Auntie *one has hope for the future*
(just kidding Mr Nightie
)
(just kidding Mr Nightie
)
nightingale+therose
...brush me daddy-o
Mr Nightie caught me watching darts this afternoon.
Looking at the 'hot darts players'
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he said "is that you picking up your beauty tips for 2011. You could look that good if you went on the 10 years younger show."
Bastard!
Looking at the 'hot darts players'
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he said "is that you picking up your beauty tips for 2011. You could look that good if you went on the 10 years younger show."
Bastard!
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