The Big DumpTruck

Okay, there's a new contender for best headline of 2005. I don't know what the other contenders are, but Reuters gave us this beauty today: "Violent, Drunken 'Bad Santas' Wreak Havoc Worldwide". I mean seriously, does it get any better than that? It's a story about bad guys dressing up in Santa Suits. The highlight of the story, in my eyes, was "in Auckland on Saturday ... 40 drunken Santas rampaged through the city center, stealing from stores and assaulting security guards in a protest against Christmas becoming too commercial."

Well, that'll show 'em, eh? I wonder what they serve for Christmas dinner in the slammer?

I also wanted to update the bad Christmas Special entry from the other day. Sure, Grandma Got Run Over by A Reindeer was a horrible mess of a cartoon, but for some reason, a show we caught later that same day was much, much worse. Much worse. Did anybody but me see "A Christmas Dinosaur?" See, this little kid snuck a peek at the present from his aunt, a petrified dino egg, that happened to hatch and then they had to hide this thing (which understood English pretty well, by the way) until Christmas morning, when they finally admitted there was a pterosaur with a 20+ foot wingspan living in their treehouse but luckily, somewhere in the Rocky Mountains there is a colony of dinosaurs who came back to claim this one. Holy crap. Accent on crap. I just tried to look it up, and anyone who doesn't believe me can try to catch one of the following showings on Cartoon Network: "A Christmas Dinosaur" - December 20, 9:00am - December 22, 10:00am - December 24, 1:00pm - December 25, 7:00pm