Merry Christmas Weiners - plus a question...

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Poor old Geordie's array...
It's around 1am our time and I've finished wrapping my presents :so Christmas can officially start!

Question:
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is The Snowman animated short film a cultural thing in America?

Im streaming it with the David Bowie intro and I feel like I'm 7 years old again.

Gratuitous Christmas Tree shot. Have a great day when it comes to you lads.

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There is an animated movie called "The Showman" that they would show before Christmas break in school, but I don't remember a Bowie element. I think I'm a few years older than you--elementary school in the 1980s--so I'm not sure it's the same thing. I just remember a snowman flying around.
 
Chicken Man said:
There is an animated movie called "The Showman" that they would show before Christmas break in school, but I don't remember a Bowie element. I think I'm a few years older than you--elementary school in the 1980s--so I'm not sure it's the same thing. I just remember a snowman flying around.
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That's the one, there's a Bowie one and non Bowie version.
 
I looked it up--the one I know is British in origin, so I'm sure we're talking about the same thing. Might make my kid watch it with me tomorrow.
 
Merry Christmas, everyone!

I remember The Snowman:

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From wiki:

The film's executive producer Iain Harvey had received interest in the film from U.S. networks and for a VHS release. However, he noted that "in the US programmes were sponsored, and to be sponsored you needed a big name". Various names such as Laurence Olivier and Julie Andrews were suggested, but a request for a rock star led to David Bowie being involved. He was a fan of Briggs's story When the Wind Blows and later provided a song for its animated adaptation. In the sequence, Bowie was filmed in the attic of 'his' childhood home and discovering, in a drawer, a scarf closely resembling the one given to James towards the end of the film;[5] he then proceeds to narrate over the opening with his own small variation of Briggs' monologue.

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The Snowman - Wikipedia

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Gorgon90 said:
Too Much Turkey Day
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we did the big dinner last night. My grand daughter brought her boyfriend to meet the family for the first time.
I’m pretty sure he ate a whole turkey breast and 3 pounds of mashed by himself. LOL. It was kinda funny to watch. He just kept filling his plate and it kept getting cleaned off.
He was afraid of the pistachio marshmallow salad stuff, but he tried it. Good kid. Nice kid.

No turkey sammiches for me this week and that’s probably a good thing.
 
Without leaning too hard into the materialistic bent that happens this time of year, share something you received that surprised you in a nice way.
The thing that made you smile, not the “biggest” or whatever-est.

I got a bag of meat and a pack of butt wipes.

The neato thing I got is a guitar pick with a tuner built in.
My daughter got it from temu. Sooo…. Yeah.
But it works surprisingly well. The only compensation I had to do was use the harmonic on the low E. Otherwise, it was not bad speed-wise and I compared it to my headstock tuner and it was almost bang-on. Just a couple of cents out on just a few strings. That’s in comparison so no telling which one is off.
 
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