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Subject: BS: Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer From: nosluap57 Date: 01 Dec 04 - 09:55 PM Just finished watching Rudolph for the zillionth time. Well, it seems like a zillion, but it premiered 40 years ago. (It airs once a year during the holiday season.) So I bet I've seen it at least twenty-five or thirty times. Anybody else seen it that many times????? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer From: Rapparee Date: 01 Dec 04 - 09:57 PM I've never seen it at all, actually. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer From: GUEST,leeneia Date: 01 Dec 04 - 10:05 PM Is it a TV short, like Frosty the Snowman? When I was little, we lived in Florida. I heard that song on the radio, and I asked my mother what "foggy" meant. Her answer was so unbelievable as to seem like science fiction. It was my first encounter with the strangeness of the adult mind. You should have been there when I heard "Mockingbird Hill" and asked her what a hill was. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer From: SINSULL Date: 01 Dec 04 - 10:07 PM The misfit reindeer with the glowing nose, Burl Ives as a snowman narrator, a crazy lumberjack, an elf who wants to be a dentist, and an Abominable Snowman with a toothache along with a cast of thousands of broken toys...I've seen it once or twice and can sing most of the songs. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer From: artbrooks Date: 01 Dec 04 - 11:26 PM I remember really getting in trouble with my kids by referring to venison as Rudolph burger. So I changed it to Bambi burger...can't imagine why they still objected... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer From: flattop Date: 01 Dec 04 - 11:33 PM W.C.Fields had a red nose too. Was there some co-dependency issues at the North Pole? Was Santa trying to control his reindeer when they would do what they wont? Why wasn't he facing his own problems, like obesity. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer From: catspaw49 Date: 02 Dec 04 - 12:09 AM A Russian and his wife were listening to the radio when the weather forecast came. The announcer said that tomorrow would be fine with long sunny periods. The Russian gets up opens the door and looks out. He comes back and says to his wife, "that forecaster is wrong, it'll be wet tomorrow." His wife says in surprise, "How do you know?" The Russian just looks at her and says, "Rudolph the Red knows rain, dear. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer From: The Fooles Troupe Date: 02 Dec 04 - 08:48 AM Boom! Boom! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer From: clueless don Date: 02 Dec 04 - 08:55 AM I heard a report on NPR yesterday that, at the request of General Electric (the sponsor), a new song was added to the special - something called "Fame and Fortune". We watched the broadcast last night (Wednesday evening December 1), and did not hear "Fame and Fortune". Our video tape of the special also does not have this extra song. Perhaps it is only available in the DVD version. We do not yet own a DVD player. Don |
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Subject: RE: BS: Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer From: Cluin Date: 02 Dec 04 - 11:43 AM "YUKON!!!!!!" "He's gone! Oh, he's GONE!" |
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Subject: RE: BS: Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer From: Pogo Date: 02 Dec 04 - 11:49 AM Wasn't there that Rudolph guy that was running around in the hills of North Carolina that the FBI was after? Seems like it happened right around Christmas time because I remember hearing reports of children distressed about the police hunting down Rudolph |
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Subject: RE: BS: Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer From: flattop Date: 02 Dec 04 - 08:51 PM Musta been after The Wall fell spaw. Before things got wonderful, the Russian had the red nose and his wife never had long sunny periods. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer From: Bill D Date: 02 Dec 04 - 09:17 PM I remember in the 3rd or 4th grade, being upstairs in my bedroom when I heard Gene Autry sing "Rudolph" for the first time...that would have in 1949 I guess I've heard it 4,273 times since- but I don't think I've ever SEEN it... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer From: nosluap57 Date: 02 Dec 04 - 11:45 PM I couldn't help but notice those elves don't wear pants....Seems like that would be a bit uncomfotable, considering how cold it must be at the north pole. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer From: Kaleea Date: 03 Dec 04 - 03:11 AM Yeah, yeah, lots more'n 40! Q: But when will Gene Autry be back on the radio singing it? A: "quoth the raven, nevermore." |
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Subject: RE: BS: Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer From: Flash Company Date: 03 Dec 04 - 10:05 AM I remember Gene Autry! 1949? God I'm OLD!!!! FC |
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Subject: RE: BS: Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer From: Cluin Date: 03 Dec 04 - 10:06 AM I couldn't help but notice those elves don't wear pants....Seems like that would be a bit uncomfotable, considering how cold it must be at the north pole. Uncomfortable, yes. But more convenient. And the high birth-rate resulting would offset the mortality rate from exposure nicely. As long as his slave work force isn't depleted, Santa is content. And he feeds the frozen corpses to his reindeer as a protein supplement and to keep his polar contained environment pristine. Mad Deer disease anyone? By the way, were Santa and his reindeer allowed in and out of Britain during the Hoof-and-Mouth crisis a couple of years ago? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer From: Rapparee Date: 03 Dec 04 - 10:16 AM Forget Mad Reindeer disease, it's Chronic Wasting Disease you have to watch out for. I've eaten reindeer, especially reindeer sausage. It's made in Alaska and it's delicious. High protein, just spicy enough. Ummmmmmmm! My nephew, Ralph, shot a deer some years back and for some reason want the head mounted (this is NOT customary in my family or among my acquaintances as we hunt for meat, not trophies). He paid for it, and the work was well done. He mounted it on his bedroom wall and then went off to the Marines. So he gets Christmas leave and brings a couple of his USMC buddies home with him. And there, on the wall, is his slightly modified deer head: pink bows adorn the antlers, and a red-painted ping-pong ball now is stuck on the nose. Under it is a sign reading "Shot by Ralph, December 24, 1998. The rest got away." His buddies and his family thought it was hilarious. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer From: Cluin Date: 03 Dec 04 - 11:23 AM So do I, Rapaire. LOL Thanks for that one. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer From: SINSULL Date: 03 Dec 04 - 07:07 PM Red tinfoil nose and Christmas balls hanging from the antlers - the devil made me do and my brother didn't see the humor in it. The elves wear leotards, guys. Everybody knows that. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer From: The Fooles Troupe Date: 03 Dec 04 - 07:46 PM I donno Cluin, they still let the politicans - oh sorry, that's Hoof in Mouth... |
