Richard's Poor Almanac by Richard Thompson for July 18, 2022
Transcript:
the story of christmas in this one, scrooge, the grinch & the abominable snowman plot to ruin christmas scrooge: with these stolen antiballistic missile plans we can blow that jolly old fool santa out of the sky! grinch: you're a mean one, mir. scrooge but tiny tim, cindy-lou who & rudolph join forces with santa to foil the evil-doers. there's a big chase. scrooges ammo dump explodes. santa: ho ho hold on kids! cindy-lou: we're losin' toys! thwarted, scrooge, the grinch & the a. snowman have a spiritual epiphany that restores their faith in humanity. snowman: barbie? scrooge: what's this? a teddy bear? i-i never got a teddy bear for christmas. only coal. oh, and that necktie grinch: playstation 2? so everybody sits down with the cratchits for a merry christmas feast, marred only slightly when mrs. cratchit serves that awful stuffing of hers with too much celery in it. snowman: bleah santa: ho ho ho tim: i can walk! look! look at me! c'mon look
Tiny Tim is an attention-hoarder, isn’t he?
But this story is a gem. Christmas re-enlivened!