Okay, if you LIKE that song, but you've already heard it just way too much, here's an alternate bardcore version from Aaron Shows. It's the Mariah Carey song sung by medieval monks. This is the kind of thing the internet was made for.
Saturday, December 06, 2025
All I Want for Christmas is Thee
Santa Clara
Emily Roberts tells it like it is. Women do all the work to make Christmas what it is, yet a fat guy in red gets all the credit.
Bongo
— Mr. Joshua (@pantspants.bsky.social) October 24, 2025 at 11:59 AMBongo doesn't look like he cares. (via Everlasting Blort)
Friday, December 05, 2025
Go, Santa, Go!
Here comes Santa Claus, here comes Santa Claus, right down I-75!
They are making inflatable decorations a lot better than they used to. When people first started using them, you had to attach a blower and leave it on, and they would still deflate by morning. Now they are cheaper and tougher, and they are everywhere, even on the highways. (Thanks, WTM!)
The History of Chick-fil-A
The history of Chick-fil-A goes back to Atlanta in 1946. Truett Cathy was searching for the secret of the perfect chicken sandwich, which turned out to be cooking the chicken in a pressure fryer. Then he licensed the method to other restaurants before going into the franchise fast food business. You might recognize this as the story of Harland Sanders, the founder of KFC, except he did it with bone-in chicken. The difference is that Sanders just wanted a faster way to prepare chicken, because his was already pretty good. Anyway, that's just the beginning. Today Chick-fil-A is known across the US as the chicken outlet that advertises with cows and is never open on Sunday. Tom Blank of Weird History Food goes through the history of Chick-fil-A, including the chain's controversies.
Forks Out
Cookie Monster baked a triple berry pie, but it's all gone! Who could have helped themselves and left none for the monster himself? Oscar the Grouch baked a garbage pie, but for some reason, no one ate his. It's a mystery that none other than the world's greatest detective, Benoit Blanc, can solve.
'Forks Out': A Benoit Blanc Sesame Street Mystery is a Muppet take on Rian Johnson's Knives Out murder mystery movie series featuring Daniel Craig as investigator Benoit Blanc. You can see Craig's reaction to this parody here. Sure, it's an ad for Netflix, which is now a distributor of Sesame Street and the owner of exclusive rights to two of the Knives Out movies. But it's the Muppets, so you know it's funny. (via Metafilter)
Miss Cellania's Links
That Long-Haired Radical Socialist Jew. (via Memo of the Air)
Eugene Lazowski and the Truth Behind the Fake Epidemic That Saved a Polish Town.
If you don't have your own doorstop with a spring, you can play with this. (via Metafilter)
Did I speak out? Not me. The latest from Tom the Dancing Bug.
50 Adorable Photos Of Tiny Cats Who Seem Confused By How Big Everything Is.
The account of Elsie Ott's first airplane flight is one for the record books. More flight nurse stories here. (Thanks, WTM!)
Donald Trump wax statue pulled from museum after being punched too many times. (via Fark)
When (And Why) Did People Start Leaving Out Cookies for Santa? Other countries do it differently.
Carol of the Pugs
We can't expect dogs to appreciate the holidays as much as we do, or even the way cats do. Dogs appreciate everything we give them, every day, so the holidays are just another time to be their joyful, wonderful selves. Still, we share the holiday spirit with our dogs because they are good dogs.
Maggie Smith Kühn wrote a song about her little pug Lucy, set to the tune of "Carol of the Bells." From the YouTube page:
Lucy the pug would like to wish you a very merry Christmas. This is the dumbest video I have ever made, and was also a ridiculous amount of fun. What can I say, I'm obsessed with this dog.You can see more of Lucy at Kühn's Instagram page. (via Tastefully Offensive)
Pizza
This dog was spotted politely waiting by a pizza truck. He doesn’t have to say what he wants. They already know his order. It is pizza. 13/10 (IG: lauren.bardini)
— WeRateDogs (@weratedogs.com) December 2, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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Thursday, December 04, 2025
A Stopped Clock
From 1885. Just think, they eventually got all the clocks and watches going again, but they still didn't know what time it was. (via Undine)
Secret Santa
Teddy takes his role as a secret Santa seriously. He entered the house through the chimney to bring gifts for Simon's Cat and the kitten. But he's still a cat, and manages to cause chaos, along with plenty of evidence that Santa Claus has been there.
"Live and Let Die" Captured by Drone Camera
The 1973 song "Live and Let Die" by Wings was commissioned for the James Bond film of the same name. Now 52 years later, Paul McCartney still performs the song in concert, often with spectacular pyrotechnics. When he played in New Orleans recently, JayByrd Films deployed a drone camera to catch the fireworks in all their glory. This clip doesn't have the entire song, but you know it. When the drone flies over the crowd, you realize that the venue is so big that there's no way you could see the show from the cheap seats, even though they weren't at all cheap.
Our Favorite Peanuts Characters
The comic strip Peanuts debuted 75 years agos. We all know the Peanuts gang and we all have our favorite characters. The core group of Charlie Brown, Lucy, Linus, and Snoopy are augmented by a group of children and animals (but no adults) who each had their own unique personalities.
This video is set up to rank seven (actually eight) of these characters from "criminally overlooked" to "global icon," but we know how such rankings can rankle. It's better to look at it as an explanation of their personalities, and how each one plays a role in providing someone we can relate to, or maybe even aspire to. That said, I am disappointed by the absence of Pigpen. (via Laughing Squid)
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