that we could use to artificially maintain our Christmas spirit.
Jesus tries to fix everything that's wrong with today's commercialized Christmas.
SNL Real Audio - Jesus Today from David Daly on Vimeo.
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I represent the first generation who, when we were born, the television was now a permanent fixture in our homes. When I was born people had breakfast with Barbara Walters, dinner with Walter Cronkite, and slept with Johnny Carson. Read the full "Pre-ramble"
Tuesday, December 29, 2015
Your HOLIDAY SOR-BAY: SNL Real Audio - Jesus Today
Jesus tries to fix everything that's wrong with today's commercialized Christmas.
SNL Real Audio - Jesus Today from David Daly on Vimeo.
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Tony Figueroa
Your HOLIDAY SOR-BAY: IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE: THE LOST ENDING
that we could use to artificially maintain our Christmas spirit.
William Shatner introduces the never-before-seen lost ending of It's a Wonderful Life, where George Bailey (Dana Carvey) and the people of Bedford Falls take bloody revenge on Old Man Potter (Jon Lovitz).
Its-a-Wonderful-Life-Lost-End by y10566
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Monday, December 28, 2015
Your HOLIDAY SOR-BAY: TV Funhouse - Globetrotters' Christmas
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In Memory ofMeadowlark Lemon |
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Meadowlark Lemon
I want you to always remember that life’s most meaningless statistic is the half time score, and as far as I’m concerned it’s always half-time. I wish you joy, my friends. In the great game of life, Trust Your Next Shot.
- Meadowlark Lemon
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| Meadow George Lemon III April 25, 1932 – December 27, 2015 |
Meadowlark Lemon died yesterday, at the age of 83
Lemon was born in Wilmington, North Carolina and attended Williston Industrial School, graduating in 1952. He then matriculated into Florida A & M University, but was soon drafted into the United States Army, serving for two years.
Lemon made his first basketball hoop out of an onion sack and coat hanger, using an empty Carnation milk can to sink his first 2-point hoop.
Lemon first applied to the Globetrotters in 1954 at age 22, finally being chosen to play the following year (1955). In 1980, he left to form one of his Globetrotters imitators, the Bucketeers. He played with that team until 1983, then moved on to play with the Shooting Stars from 1984 to 1987. In 1988, he moved on to "Meadowlark Lemon's Harlem All Stars" team. Despite being with his own touring team, Lemon returned to the Globetrotters, playing 50 games with them in 1994.
In 2000, Lemon received the John Bunn Award, the highest honor given by the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame outside of induction.
He was inducted into the Hall three years later as a contributor to the game. On May 18, 2009, Lemon became a partial owner of the Smoky Mountain Jam of the American Basketball Association.
In the 1970s, an animated version of Lemon, voiced by Scatman Crothers, starred with various other Globetrotters in the Hanna-Barbera animated cartoon series Harlem Globetrotters. The animated Globetrotters also made three appearances in The New Scooby-Doo Movies.
Lemon appeared alongside Fred "Curly" Neal, Marques Haynes and his other fellow Globetrotters in a live-action Saturday-morning television show, The Harlem Globetrotters Popcorn Machine, in 1974–1975, which also featured Rodney Allen Rippy and Avery Schreiber.
In 1978, Lemon appeared in a memorable Burger King commercial by making a tower of burgers until he found a double-beef pickles and onions burger and no cheeseburger.
In 1983, Lemon appeared in a Charmin toilet paper commercial alongside Mr. Whipple (actor Dick Wilson).
In 1979, Lemon starred in the educational geography film Meadowlark Lemon Presents the World. Also in 1979, he joined the cast of the short-lived television sitcom Hello, Larry in season two, to help boost the show's ratings; in the same year, he played Rev. Grady Jackson in the movie The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh. It was several years before he actually became an ordained minister himself.
In 1982, Lemon was featured in the Grammy-nominated video Fun and Games, an interactive educational video produced by Optical Programming Associates and Scholastic Productions, on the then-emerging LaserDisc format.
Meadowlark Lemon had 10 children: Richard, George, Beverly, Donna, Robin, Jonathan, Jamison, Angela, Crystal and Caleb.
Lemon's estranged first wife Willye pleaded guilty to simple assault after admitting to stabbing Lemon with a steak knife in 1978.
A born-again Christian, Lemon became an ordained minister in 1986 and received a Doctor of Divinity degree from Vision International University in Ramona, California, in 1988. In his last years, he took up residence in Scottsdale, Arizona, where his Meadowlark Lemon Ministries, Inc. is located. After his first marriage ended in divorce, Lemon married Dr. Cynthia Lemon in 1994.
The song says it all.
Good Night Meadowlark
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Your HOLIDAY SOR-BAY: Cartoon voice actors read Twas the Night Before Christmas
that we could use to artificially maintain our Christmas spirit.
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Sunday, December 27, 2015
Your HOLIDAY SOR-BAY: McHale's navy the day they captured Santa claus
Here is a "HOLIDAY SOR-BAY" a little spark of madness
that we could use to artificially maintain our Christmas spirit.
that we could use to artificially maintain our Christmas spirit.
Santa' McHale must practice some psychological warfare, when he, the crew, Binghamton, and a war correspondent are captured by a Japanese patrol, while on a mission to bring some Christmas joy to the children of a nearby orphanage.
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Tony Figueroa
Saturday, December 26, 2015
Your HOLIDAY SOR-BAY: B.J. and the Bear "Silent Night, Unholy Night."
that we could use to artificially maintain our Christmas spirit.
The 1979 Christmas episode of the B.J. and the Bear entitled 'Silent Night, Unholy Night.' "BJ helps a pregnant woman who has some very incriminating evidence against the evil sheriff on Christmas Eve."
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Tony Figueroa
Friday, December 25, 2015
Your HOLIDAY SOR-BAY: Crazy Ex-Girlfriend | California Christmastime
that we could use to artificially maintain our Christmas spirit.
California Christmastime" full music video from Rachel Bloom and the cast of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend.
Connect with Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Online:
Visit Crazy Ex-Girlfriend WEBSITE: http://on.cwtv.com/CrazyExGirlfriend
Like Crazy Ex-Girlfriend on FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/crazyxgf
Follow Crazy Ex-Girlfriend on TWITTER: https://twitter.com/cw_crazyxgf
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Tony Figueroa
Your HOLIDAY SOR-BAY: Happy Days - Christmas Time and Bing Crosby sings "White Christmas"
that we could use to artificially maintain our Christmas spirit.
It's Christmas, and Fonzie refuses to accept a Christmas gift that arrived from his estranged father.
December 25, 1941
Bing Crosby introduces "White Christmas" to
the world
"White Christmas," written
by the formidable composer and lyricist Irving Berlin receives its world
premiere on this day in 1941 on Bing Crosby's weekly NBC radio program, The
Kraft Music Hall. It went on to become one of the most commercially
successful singles of all time, and the top-selling single ever until being
surpassed by Elton John's "Candle in the Wind 1997."Stay Tuned
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Thursday, December 24, 2015
Your HOLIDAY SOR-BAY: Sanford And Son - Ebenezer Sanford
that we could use to artificially maintain our Christmas spirit.
It's "A Christmas Carol," Sanford and Son-style, as the friends and family of stingy Fred try to imbue our curmudgeonly hero with the Christmas spirit. Naturally, Fred is resistant to these efforts until he has a dream, replete with the ghosts of Christmases Past, Present, and Future (who look awfully familiar to Fred -- and to us). Former child actor Marc Copage (of Julia fame) appears as the younger "Fredsie."
Note: Eric Laneuville, who would later appear in the recurring role of Daniel Anderson, Esther and Woody's adopted son, appears as Ron, a helper hired by Fred in the junkyard. Adrian Ricard appears as Ron's mother, and Joe "Flash" Riley as Mr. Small, his father.
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Merry Christmas
Tony Figueroa
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