I love posting this parody every year.  Lots of people don't know that Rudolph was a coke addict, and his original song the record companies passed on. He did clean himself up but this was the original song he submitted that got rejected.

Rudolph the coke nosed reindeer

Had a very bloody nose

His cartilage disintegrated

From snorting all the blow

All of the other reigndeer

Stole poor Rudolph's stash

Snorted all the blow

And threw the zip lock in the trash

Then one feemen winter's eve

Rudolph needed a fix

He said, "Where the hell's my f ing coke"

So they gave him a baking soda mix

Rudolph started to snort it

Not knowing what it was

Then he tried to go out flying

Without his usual Buzz

That damned sleigh

Started losing altitude

Santa exclaimed "What the f

That was rather rude"

All of the other riegndeer

Were impaled upon a tree

And Rudolph kept on shouting

"Never f with me!"

(END)

Like I said, he got help and is clean now. But people don't know his prior addiction.

Got your Xmas parody here. Have a Merry Sunday.

 From Mark Mythos on Facebook...

I knew I'd get drawn into this. Burt, there are many academic who doubt the existence of a historical Jesus and for good reason. I could name names but you should be able to find good info w/ a Google search for 'Jesus never existed'. The creation of the Chris myth is complex and stems from Jewish messianic expectations, Greek and Babylonian mythology that was instilled into the Jews during the Diaspora, Mithraic elements (sacrament, resurrection, virgin birth, etc) from Persia, and so on. Here's an extensive site on the topic that'll take some days to get thru: http://www.jesusneverexisted.com/time.html

Start there, then go here: http://www.jesusneverexisted.com/hero.html

After years of studying this topic, my personal opinion is that there were probably many 'Joshua/Jesus' characters in Israel at the time who rebelled against Roman occupation, who had followers (we'd call them 'homies' today), who lived communally with their followers (some parts of the canonical and non-canonical gospels indicate that Jesus and his disciples were thugs, bent on removing the Romans from Jerusalem.), and who were betrayed by someone in their inner circle, captured and crucified by the Romans, etc. That wouldn't be an unusual story at all. What would be unusual (in literary studies, stories about people doing things that are physically impossible are considered fiction and indicate a break from what could be considered a historical story into a fictional story, a 'historical docudrama.), but what would be unusual are the miracles.  That's where the authors of the Gospels go from history into fiction.

Also note no autographs from Jesus about his life, no contemporary historians mention Jesus at all (and some of these historians documented much of the mundane but somehow miss Jesus. Hmm...), no firsthand eyewitness accounts, no knowledge of the birth date of this, the most important person in history, etc. I could continue but suffice it to say the Jesus story fits the mythical hero motif that has been made up using some of the same appellations by many cultures all over the world at nearly the same time in human history, but somehow, we're supposed to believe the story of Jesus (an Aramaic word) Christ (a Greek word) was unique. Even his name indicates the syncretic nature of this fictional character.

I never really get into this. Simply because I think the christians already lost christmas. Now it's a commercial holiday more than anything. One that starts around mid October and ends on the 2nd or 3rd of January.

Since I was about eight, I've known that X-mas was more commercial than spiritual in nature.  I mean, a jolly old fat guy with a snowy white beard comes into your house, eats your cookies and leaves you presents under a poor, mutilated pine tree that will see the business end of a dumpster in a month?  Cmon!  I still do the gift exchanging and what not.  However, this is the only year that I didn't put up a tree.  It's usually a family thing that I do that, but not this year.  Didn't see the point.  We have an artificial tree so it's not like it would go in the trash, but it seemed like a pain in the royal ass.   

Oh, and this parody I'm posting is one of the most "obscene animations ever created" and it lives up to it.  You were warned.  Enjoy!  vimeo.com/33893001

No shit on the tree thing. When I was a kid, just like sweeping of the concrete outdoor  steps to the basement of wet leaves in the winter, cleaning up after the real tree was a bitch. I like the presents and the time with my family but the clean up was a royal pain in the ass. Did my parents help me? No.

You had to put the lights away, the tinsel was the worst, and the pine needles the vacuum wouldn't pick up.

Don't get me started on that FUCKING tinsel or the years we got a frocked tree...