Joy to the world! The Lord has gum!

Tis the season for Christmas Mondegreens. Snopes has culled out a number of great ones, and there's also a book: "Deck the Halls with Buddy Holly."

Two that made me laugh out loud were: "Joy to the world! The Lord has gum!" and "Police got my dad!" (instead of "Feliz Navidad.")

Booking it

You know how you get a huge project done at work, and you take a big, deep sigh, and then you can't even remember how you spent your time before that project was sucking up every last second? That's how I felt the minute my MSNBC.com Winter Book Guide went live on Friday. Please check it out:

FICTION: Novels range from poignant to hilarious

NONFICTION: Football, teachers, left-handers

COOKBOOKS: New recipes will warm up winter

EDITOR’S CHOICE: Books that fell through the cracks

COFFEETABLE: Photography books to get lost in

Brain freeze on your own terms

As kids, we loved the Snoopy Sno-Cone Machine. Now 7-Eleven has gotten into the act with a Slurpee Machine. (Via The Morning News.)

Spinal Tap and Puppet Show

The movie "Serenity" as told by hand puppets. A little too fangirl for me, but still funny.

We're number one! We're number one!

Seattle is apparently the best city for singles (many of my single friends would no doubt disagree with that) and is also the most literate city.

My former hometown, Minneapolis, is the #2 most literate city. I'm a bit smug to be from two such well-read places.

Have you ever had a 'Big' secret?

Remember the great mocked-up trailer for "The Shining," where someone recut things to make it look like the movie was a hilarious family comedy?

Well, now someone has done the same for "Big," only going the opposite direction, making that comedy look like an ominous thriller. It's obvious now, Hollywood: We're smarter than you, so make us better movies already, will ya?

Chomp!

I love this piranha dental-floss dispenser. So cute. (Via Boing Boing.)

Underwear that's fun to wear

There's complicated pop culture, and then there's the pure simplicity of something like X-Entertainment's Christmas Underoos commercial (click on Dec. 4 on the Advent calendar to watch). Oh, so, so simple, so pure, and so damn entertaining. Best is the blonde bowl-haircut Superman kid, who looks like he could be related to Robbie Rist.

Some 'Reunion'

FOX has put the kibosh on my favorite guilty pleasure show, "Reunion." Aw, damn...it was so bad, it was great.

This was the show that starred "American Dreams" alum Will Estes along with Poor Man's Tom Cruise, Poor Man's Rebecca Gayheart, Poor Man's Claire Danes (thanks to a reader for that one!), Poor Man's Matthew Broderick, and Poor Man's...I don't know who the nondescript Jenna girl would be.

It's unclear now if they're going to rewrite the few remaining episodes and try and cram the solving of the murder into a week or two, or just dump it in the middle, or what. Damn you, FOX. And yet, the craptacular "War at Home" lives on.

Let it snow...

It snowed in Seattle today! Well, maybe an inch. Or not even. The snow itself looked wild coming down, big, fat flakes like we were living in a snowglobe, but then the ground remained green for a long time, until the snow finally decided to kind of stick.

Defective Yeti said it best, especially the comments. Said one: "I still remember the "blizzard" of '96, when a whole inch of snow knocked Seattle out for a week. I wanted to write a letter to Bill Gates to ask him to please buy the city a second snowplow and some salt." And said another: "You forgot the part where no one is permitted to purchase anything but milk, bread and toilet paper."

And oddly enough, after book club tonight, I stopped by the store and two of the three things I bought were...milk and toilet paper. I swear! It wasn't snow-related!

Doin' the Courteney

Well, I never watched "Fresh Prince of Bel-Air," but apparently a character on that show had a horrible dance that was based on the little arm-swingy thing Courteney Cox did in Springsteen's "Dancing in the Dark" video. If that is true, it is just so awesome.

"Christmastown seems to be some sort of dictatorship,"

My pal Kim Reed has a very funny list of reasons why Santa, in "Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer," Is Kind of a Dick. Well, now that I think about it...

The Princess Diaries

You can bid on the copy of Princess Diana's famous wedding gown, apparently made in case someone spilled wine or tore the one she wore. (The copy has fake Queen Mary's lace, not that anyone but Queen Mary would know.)

I remember when she wed, so many of us thought that was the most amazing dress we had ever seen. It influenced thousands of weddings and brides for years to come, I'm sure of it.

Looking at the dress now, though, if I can mentally separate it from her sad life at all, I have to say, Fergie's gown was head and shoulders above Di's as far as conforming to my style.

You take the good, you take the bad

Placing odds on "The Facts of Life." Ah, if only there were to be a new season...

(Via Defamer.)

Heh

I love this Onion Wal-Mart Infographic. Best line: "Force any newspaper that depicts them in poor light out of business by opening larger, cheaper newspaper nearby."