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I love novelty songs and used to stay up late listening to the Dr. Demento show on the radio on Sunday nights. I have a deep and abiding affection for Weird Al Yankovic because of this.

I love cheesy old horror movies, and good old horror movies, too. And movies about old horror movies. I just watched Ed Wood again last night.

I love shaped holiday candy. Not just chocolate Easter rabbits, which are a wonderful tradition, but anything in a novelty shape, like the Reese's Peanut Butter Pumpkins out right now, and the York Peppermint Batties. They make me very happy!

Amy Grant's music from here heyday.

I love the movie "Elf". It used to be a family tradition to watch it the night of Thanksgiving. Now my kids say, "Dad, can we watch something else?"

Sigh.

Mary Poppins. Gnomes. LOLcats.

Oh, I remember Dr. Demento from college. That was great stuff. And that Weird Al is still around - I just love Hardware Store. :)

For some reason I'm really amused by the FreecreditReport.com commercials. Even after learning that the guy singing in them has actually been "voiced over". He's not really the one doing the singing.

I really love Jane Austen novels, and they're just about the stupidest thing ever invented.

I also love deleting comments on GoodReads that I don't agree with. It gives me an inflated sense of power.

Wait. We can delete comments?

Ok, who's pissed me off lately?

glares around the room

I tried to read Emma but didn't get very far. I've been told to try again. I think I thought Austen's work was going to be as good as Jane Eyre, but I haven't found that to be the case yet. I'll go back and give her another shot eventually.

Plus, I get the feeling women dig some of the guys from Jane Austen books, and I want to learn what I can.

Yeah, Sherri, I think it's me...I made the mistake of thinking one female author from that era was like another one...I'm serious, I should know better.

I really liked Jane Eyre, though.

I've never read Jane Austen.

You may hiss at me now.

Thanks for blocking me again, Sherri dear. I know I must be doing something very, very right.

Gus, IMO, you are not missing much.

Hiss at me too, people.

Yeah, lots of people like to dry-hump Austen, but it's mainly just comedy-of-manners porn for schlumpy housewives and pretentious Anglophiles.

Nothing wrong with a little comedy-of-manners porn, as long as long as there's some DPs involved...

I don't understand why the Brontes and Austen are so often compared. Just because they were all female? The Brontes wrote gothic romances in the 19th century. Austen wrote neoclassical romantic comedies in the 18th century and actually made fun of gothic novels in Northanger Abbey.

I love both authors but I don't think they're the same AT ALL.

Pens.

Jackie, re: message 2, have you seen these:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HE9OQ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0TYun...

Dave, those videos are awesome! THe A-Ha song makes so much more sense this way. Thanks!!!

"I'm singing in the library and trying to flirt..."

I'm so glad that you just mentioned Dickens because the stupid thing that I love is the musical version of Scrooge (with Albert Finney, 1970 I think) where they sing the ass off A Christmas Carol. Not what Dickens had in mind, I bet, but I still love it.

I love all those Rankin & Bass animated shows, such as:

- The Year Without Santa Claus. LOVE Heat Miser and Snow Miser.

- Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer. The Island of Misfit Toys! The elf who wants to be a dentist!

I was always partial to the Rankin & Bass Easter story, where the Easter bunny goes to a party the night before Easter and then oversleeps (failing to deliver the Easter eggs) and then has to go back in a time machine to make things right.

I loved Iron Tail :)

Jackie: The Island of Misfit Toys! That has to be the best christmas movie ever. That concept is absolutely wonderful. I don't remember the other ones, but that whole sequence can still dance around in my head on cue. Oh man, I want it to be christmas now! :)

Also:
That movie Center Stage. Oh God, is it stupid and badly acted, but I love it. And not just for Peter Gallagher, as I should.

"How would you like it if you were a water pistol...that squirts jelly?"

I could never figure out what was supposed to be wrong with the spotted elephant.

Elephants don't have polka dots...unless they're freaks!

I hate Dickens. But I love Wilkie Collins. So there!

OOH! Stupid things I love + Dickens + Christmas movies = THE MUPPETS CHRISTMAS CAROL!!

I love anything with Kermit in it.

I love the early dark in December because people don't close their blinds and I can get little glimpses of their homes as I drive by (or take a bundled up evening walk when it's not icy and dangerous for pregnant bellies to be outside).
I realize that I'm the only person who enjoys the winter solstice because of quasi-voyeuristic tendencies.

I like looking in people's houses, too, Sally. I also like going to open houses when a cool old house in my neighborhood is up for sale.

Sally wrote: "I love the early dark in December because people don't close their blinds and I can get little glimpses of their homes as I drive by (or take a bundled up evening walk when it's not icy and dangero..."

Only one? No way, sister. My mom and I love doing this. :)

I like cheesy sci-fi movies (cheesy as in, old-school, not cheesy as in really-bloody-awful-new-ones) and I tend to like really stupid boys, does that count?

"Nothing wrong with a little comedy-of-manners porn, as long as long as there's some DPs involved... "
Hehehehe Gus, I think you're hilarious!

I adore all those Christmas stop-action movies, but my favorite is Santa Claus is Coming to Town. We just watched it this week with my daughter and she kept asking if that was the real story of how Santa became Santa. Sure! Why the heck not? I believed it when I was little. And, it makes me cry every time I see it.

I also love old kids movies - Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Sound of Music, Mary Poppins, Peter Pan, Dumbo, Bambi, Robin Hood, The Aristocats, Bedknobs & Broomsticks, Something Wicked This Way Comes

And our favorite cartoons are The Angry Beavers and Dave the Barbarian. Can't get much stoopider than that!

Oh man... Angry Beavers... I loved Rocko's Modern Life too. :)

Richard Cheese

We just got the DVD set of all the stop-motion animated Christmas movies. My daughter seems to dig Santa Claus is Coming to Town.

I love things that celebrate stupid, and not just stupid, but stoooooopid. Give me Aqua Teen Hunger Force or It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, and I get all stupid beside myself.

Heidi, I really like Richard Cheese's version of System of a Down's Chop Suey.

I loooove his version of Metallica's Enter Sandman.

The Three Stooges

Most anything to come out of Japan's Toho studios during the 1970's

Many, many 70's one-hit wonders (as anthologized by Rhino)

The special effects work of the master, Ray Harryhausen

Pre-1984 professional wrestling

"Green Acres"

"Get Smart"

The mindless thud of the Kiss catalog up to and including "Alive"

The smell of WD40

Anything ever released by Slade

Films about giant mutated insects, blundering mega-crabs, rudely-awakened dinosaurs, monsters from the deep, and aliens – both good and bad, but mostly bad – from distant galaxies

White Castle

"Cops"

Anything to do with La Cosa Nostra

Clark, have you read The Gold Coast or The Gate House by Nelson DeMille? Both are excellent reads. The audio books rock, too.

Heidi wrote: "Clark, have you read The Gold Coast or The Gate House by Nelson DeMille? Both are excellent reads. The audio books rock, too."


Heidi, no I haven't but I've added them both to my "to read" list. Thanks for the recommendations!

RandomAnthony wrote: "Amy Grant's music from here heyday.

I love the movie "Elf". It used to be a family tradition to watch it the night of Thanksgiving. Now my kids say, "Dad, can we watch something else?"

Sigh."

My 15 year old and 19 year old both watched it with me this year RA.

Clark wrote: "The Three Stooges

Most anything to come out of Japan's Toho studios during the 1970's

Many, many 70's one-hit wonders (as anthologized by Rhino)

The special effects work of the master, Ray..."

Geez Clark, I agree with almost all of these. I love the Three Stooges, but not the bug movies.

Clark wrote: "Heidi, no I haven't but I've added them both to m..."

To be honest, they are surprisingly some of my favorite reads. Nelson DeMille does social satire very nicely.

I just really like to be set outside on a nice, sunny, crisp Fall day.

Yeah, but that's not stupid.

The Ficus wrote: "I just really like to be set outside on a nice, sunny, crisp Fall day."

I really enjoy stupid things like reading comments from the ficus. I just smile.

Cosmic said: "I also love old kids movies - Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Sound of Music, Mary Poppins,..."

well, i def love Truly Scrumptious (and Julie Andrews was way hot in those too

I love Mystery Science Theater 3000, and all the movies they make fun of.
I love Weird Al Yankovic and novelty songs and Spike Jones.
And I like Robot Chicken in small doses. :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMP9Eo...

i love these hitler rants on youtube. here is a really funny one on santa. these make me laugh every time (although most are not suitable for children)

The Hitler Rants are the funniest thing to hit YouTube in a while. I love these to death.

I don't think I can ever watch that movie the same, after watching so many versions of his rant.

Gus wrote: "The Hitler Rants are the funniest thing to hit YouTube in a while. I love these to death."

I remember when they did a Harry Potter one a while back. I thought it was hilarious, but I was scared to post it anywhere because I thought it might be unPC.

I love autotune the news:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBb4cj...