K.A.C. 2025 - T - 06 Days ... [2016]

 

     2016 - The biggest toy of the year was the introduction of Pokemon Go - load it on your phone, go walk around staring at your phone to get the critter ... walk into traffic ... and occasionally find DEAD BODIES! Oh, it happened - not just once or twice, but multiple times! Altas Obscura explained why:

     https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/why-pokemon-go-players-are-going-to-keep-finding-dead-bodies  

      Well, you can't top that, you say? Well maybe WE can't, but they had no problem doing so in Sri Lanka that year, when 'in a world-famous blunder, a Christmas carol service in Sri Lanka accidentally printed the lyrics to Tupac Shakur's "Hail Mary" in its program instead of the traditional prayer.' (Google) See it in all its unintentional glory below:

     https://www.instagram.com/p/DSJCKxAABub/?img_index=2  

     

     Time to play KAC Potpourri Catch Up! As we're running out time, we've still got a lot of items that don't really fit anywhere in our tales, so we're just going to throw them out here and like tinsel of old, see what sticks. 

     First up is this fine piece of animation Justin sent me about Scrooge's three spirits discussing the night, with Christmas Future getting WAY into his role:

     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlmWyd_XKqo 

     Next, the Observer (UK) examines the origin of an essential part of holiday parties this time of year, the Christmas Sandwich. Tell you what, go read the article first and come back - we'll wait:     https://observer.co.uk/style/food/article/the-christmas-sandwich-origin-story?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us       

       

     Looks and sounds delicious, right? Now let us tell you the story about our humble Curator's holiday sandwiches. Every year when he was young, one night during the holidays he was sent to a friend's place to stay overnight as his Mom had a party at her place. Let's say Mom's ideas of decorating on a budget were Out There - between the bizarre decor she would put up to DYEING her Teacup Toy Poodles BLUE for the season (pictures forthcoming as soon as we can find them) to the pièce de ré·sis·tance, the infamous egg salad sandwiches (as seen to your left). Again, think limited budget back in the 1960s. We're sure Good Housekeeping or Ladies Home Journal or some such magazine put a festive bee in her bonnet about 'how to entertain' and mentioned THESE Atrocious Appetizers, consisting of two loaves of bread, a mountain of Egg Salad and two LARGE bottles of food coloring. One loaf was dyed red, the other green (the CHRISTMAS colors, don'cha know), then slathered up with Egg Salad and left out for guests ... said guests who are crammed into a one-bedroom Boston apartment, drinking, smoking and sweating - heat cranked up until someone opens a window, wafting the scent of Egg Salad that's now been out awhile throughout, as ONLY THE BRAVE or polite take one and gamely wash it down, STAINING their faces and teeth into a GHOULISH mixture of blood red, gangrene green and noxious yellow ... and God help you if you got this on your best holiday clothing - just put it out of your misery, sir or madam, 'cause you're never getting that stain out!

     Any hope of hooking up with somebody at this Carnival of Souls reunion trainwreck, which has now spun COMPLETELY off the rails has been dashed as the participants are now having URGENT summons from their bowels to hit the bathroom STAT ... again, in a ONE BEDROOM, ONE BATHROOM Boston apartment. Hasty 'look at the time' excuses were made, the race for the door (and the bushes outside) was on and another 'much-talked-about' party was in the books!

     The worst part and why we bring this up? Someone's Mom didn't believe in wasting food and SAVED it for their latchkey son to eat through the New Year while she was at work! The son, being no fool, fed them to his Evil Blue Poodle Nemesis who, if we can be crude for a moment (hey, we're among friends after all and if you've come THIS far with the K.A.C., well, really, you only have yourselves to blame!), when taken on Walkies later, produced the most AMAZING TECHNICOLOR POOP that was the the TALK of the neighborhood! Your Curator, being a Boston lad, lived on Fluffernutters the whole time, until it was time to go back to military school - Win-Win! 

     And that's what we did for fun. Speaking of fun, come back tomorrow as we begin our final 5 day countdown. Where's that bottle of Fluff?