# Well, my grandmother dropped acid, and freaked out and hijacked a schoolbus full of.. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 24, 2005, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-my-grandmother-dropped-acid-and-freaked-out-and-hijacked-a-schoolbus-full-of/337104 "2005-12-24T19:59:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/bc8723/32.png) [@Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unauthorized_Cinnamon)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2005, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-my-grandmother-dropped-acid-and-freaked-out-and-hijacked-a-schoolbus-full-of/337104/41 "2005-12-29T18:08:53Z")
> [@jrfranchi](#): > > I do love Better of Dead but I have never associated it with Xmas. Why, don’t they have Christmas in France? Chriiiiiiiist-maaaas! My favorite is **The Ref** , which I’m sure has the most incidences of the word “fuck” of any Christmas movie. Nevertheless, it is a classic. This year my sweetie got it for me on DVD, and we watched it while wrapping presents. Seriously, check it out. It’s got Kevin Spacey, Judy Davis, Christine Baranski, and Denis Leary. It’s all about a bickering family on Christmas Eve, and what happens when they get taken hostage by a burglar. I laugh my butt off every time I watch it. ---
**Author:** ![supervenusfreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@supervenusfreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/supervenusfreak)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2005, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-my-grandmother-dropped-acid-and-freaked-out-and-hijacked-a-schoolbus-full-of/337104/42 "2005-12-29T18:22:56Z")
I have to mention with a few more of my holiday favorites **Toys** - Just for the opening sequence and the terrific Joan Cusack. **Batman Returns** - It has to be the whip scenes **The Homecoming** - I was never really much of a Waltons fan as a kid, but I caught this one Christmas morning, and fell in love with it. **A Wish For Wings That Work** - I wish I could find this one on DVD. ---
**Author:** ![Airblairxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Airblairxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airblairxxx)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2005, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-my-grandmother-dropped-acid-and-freaked-out-and-hijacked-a-schoolbus-full-of/337104/43 "2005-12-29T18:55:37Z")
> [@supervenusfreak](#): > > **A Wish For Wings That Work** - I wish I could find this one on DVD. DAMMIT! I scrolled all through this thread, hoping to be the first one to mention this!!! (BTW, we only have it on VHS, too.) ---
**Author:** ![Scubaqueen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@Scubaqueen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scubaqueen)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2005, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-my-grandmother-dropped-acid-and-freaked-out-and-hijacked-a-schoolbus-full-of/337104/44 "2005-12-29T19:12:26Z")
:::the diva at last delurks after 11 months of studying the inmates. or should i say dopers:::: bad(der) santa (to my undying shame) white christmas (sheer, unadulterated, irreplaceable corn with bob and bing) ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2005, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-my-grandmother-dropped-acid-and-freaked-out-and-hijacked-a-schoolbus-full-of/337104/45 "2005-12-29T19:34:18Z")
Superman I and/or II. I’m not sure why, but we’ve always done it. It’s ingrained into me enough that when they came out on DVD, I headed for the “holiday movie” section of the store to look for them. Then I felt really stupid. ---
**Author:** ![supervenusfreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@supervenusfreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/supervenusfreak)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2005, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-my-grandmother-dropped-acid-and-freaked-out-and-hijacked-a-schoolbus-full-of/337104/46 "2005-12-30T03:26:25Z")
> [@Airblairxxx](#): > > DAMMIT! I scrolled all through this thread, hoping to be the first one to mention this!!! > > (BTW, we only have it on VHS, too.) LOL. Lucky you! That’s all I could find anywhere. ---
**Author:** ![susan\_foster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@susan\_foster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan_foster)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2005, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-my-grandmother-dropped-acid-and-freaked-out-and-hijacked-a-schoolbus-full-of/337104/47 "2005-12-30T04:22:38Z")
> [@AerynSun](#): > > Why, don’t they have Christmas in France? Chriiiiiiiist-maaaas! One Christmas my family wrapped a frozen dinner for my brother. Susan ---
**Author:** ![Translucent\_Daydream](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/translucent_daydream/32/16170_2.png) [@Translucent\_Daydream](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Translucent_Daydream)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2005, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-my-grandmother-dropped-acid-and-freaked-out-and-hijacked-a-schoolbus-full-of/337104/48 "2005-12-30T04:28:27Z")
For me it is **Donnie Darco**. Love the bunny. And I always watch **Braveheart** , because I am cooking and I can see the television from the kitchen at my brother’s house. My favorite movie of all time. Especially in 5.1 Dolby Surrond… _manly grunts_ ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2005, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-my-grandmother-dropped-acid-and-freaked-out-and-hijacked-a-schoolbus-full-of/337104/49 "2005-12-30T06:28:24Z")
> [@melondeca](#): > > I am a big fan of Claymation Christmas. The Carol of the Bells sequence cracks me up every time. _“I lost mine!”_😃 Heh. An old family favorite here, too. 'Just got the soundtrack this year. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Eonwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eonwe/32/240_2.png) [@Eonwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eonwe)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2005, 7:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-my-grandmother-dropped-acid-and-freaked-out-and-hijacked-a-schoolbus-full-of/337104/50 "2005-12-30T07:56:11Z")
> [@MacTech](#): > > Well, my grandmother dropped acid, and freaked out and hijacked a schoolbus full of…penguins, so it’s kind of a family crisis… … so that’s who almost hit me on 89 heading to Burlington from Montpelier. Get your grandma off the road! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Anastasaeon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2005, 8:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-my-grandmother-dropped-acid-and-freaked-out-and-hijacked-a-schoolbus-full-of/337104/51 "2005-12-30T08:28:06Z")
**Christmas Vacation** - now that I’m so far from home, the part where Clark (Chevy) is sitting up in the attic, with that get-up on to keep warm, watching old films, and Ellen comes upstairs and… well, you know what happens. That part slays my mother. She laughs until she turns pink and has tears in her eyes. She starts giggling just thinking about it. During the movie, her giggling begins as he’s going through the trunk. Now that I’m so far away from my dear mother at Christmas, I watch my copy of Christmas Vacation… and start giggling when he puts that turban on. I’m thinking of my mother, really, which to me, was _always_ the funniest part. \*\*A Wish For Wings That Work \*\* - “An _ALBATROSS_! SUCK UP AN _ALBATROSS_!” **Merry Christmas, Mr. Bean** - worth it just for the beginning sequence with the manger scene. And the sending cards to himself, the carolers, “BOOM.” All good. **Rocko’s Modern Christmas** - “Bring the children to fruitcake man. Go ahead. Take what you want. I feel nothing.” and, “Christmas?! What do you _want_?” Other classics like the Grinch (animated, Jim Carrey one is _okay_), Elf is okay if I inch past my loathing of Will Farrell (worth it for Zooey Deschanel, though), A Christmas Story (which I caught this year, thanks to the SDMB, during its 24 hour marathon on TBS), various incarnations of A Christmas Carol (Muppets being the best ever), It’s A Wonderful Life, Miracle on 34th Street, etc etc etc. ---
**Author:** ![F.U.Shakespeare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aca169/32.png) [@F.U.Shakespeare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.U.Shakespeare)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2006, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-my-grandmother-dropped-acid-and-freaked-out-and-hijacked-a-schoolbus-full-of/337104/52 "2006-01-01T12:01:12Z")
I can’t remember where I heard this: You can tell a person’s politics by their favorite Christmas movie. If you’re a liberal, your favorite Christmas movie is ‘Miracle on 34th St’. If you’re a conservative, your favorite Christmas movie is ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ And if you’re _really_ conservative, your favorite Christmas movie is ‘Die Hard’. ---
**Author:** ![DoperChic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9a28c/32.png) [@DoperChic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DoperChic)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2006, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-my-grandmother-dropped-acid-and-freaked-out-and-hijacked-a-schoolbus-full-of/337104/53 "2006-01-01T15:12:11Z")
> [@supervenusfreak](#): > > I have to mention with a few more of my holiday favorites > > **Toys** - Just for the opening sequence and the terrific Joan Cusack. > > **Batman Returns** - It has to be the whip scenes > > **The Homecoming** - I was never really much of a Waltons fan as a kid, but I caught this one Christmas morning, and fell in love with it. > > **A Wish For Wings That Work** - I wish I could find this one on DVD. I’m not sure if I’m the first to post this, but here’s a [link](http://product.half.ebay.com/_W0QQprZ3286300QQcpidZ4018735) to a [half.com](http://half.com) offering of the DVD - brand new at that! ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2006, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-my-grandmother-dropped-acid-and-freaked-out-and-hijacked-a-schoolbus-full-of/337104/54 "2006-01-01T16:46:24Z")
> [@F. U. Shakespeare](#): > > I can’t remember where I heard this: > > You can tell a person’s politics by their favorite Christmas movie. > > If you’re a liberal, your favorite Christmas movie is ‘Miracle on 34th St’. > > If you’re a conservative, your favorite Christmas movie is ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ > > And if you’re _really_ conservative, your favorite Christmas movie is ‘Die Hard’. Hah, as usual I defy classification. I listed earlier Miracle & Die Hard. I am a hawk, so that may cover the _really_ conservative but I am also an Environmentalist so that should cover Liberal. ---
**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2006, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-my-grandmother-dropped-acid-and-freaked-out-and-hijacked-a-schoolbus-full-of/337104/55 "2006-01-01T16:59:18Z")
> [@F. U. Shakespeare](#): > > I can’t remember where I heard this: > > You can tell a person’s politics by their favorite Christmas movie. > > If you’re a liberal, your favorite Christmas movie is ‘Miracle on 34th St’. > > If you’re a conservative, your favorite Christmas movie is ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ > > And if you’re _really_ conservative, your favorite Christmas movie is ‘Die Hard’. I’m libertarian, so I guess that’s Scrooged or Christmas Vacation. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-my-grandmother-dropped-acid-and-freaked-out-and-hijacked-a-schoolbus-full-of/337104.md?page=2)