Roger Moore at the end of his run.
Least Favorite of the Three Musketeers
The coconut-flavored ones they had back in 2011.
Least favorite “Die hard” movie
The first one, because it spawned the series.
LF place you’ve ever had a rash.
On my leg
LF of the Three Musketeers from the books or movies?
Aramis. He gives up the musketeer life to become a priest? Who does that?
LF product package
Kettle Chips-the bag either bursts open or tears down the side of the whole bag.
Least favorite small-batch beer
Incontinent Hobo IPA
LF movie you saw in 2017?
Trolls. Don’t ask.
LF Disney appropriation of a folk or fairy tale or character.
Their newest Disney Princess-Dr. Frank-N-Furter.
LF Disney ride.
Space Mountain. The lines, my God, the lines…!
LF Christmas song?
“The Little Drummer Boy”
LF fruit to juice.
Grapefruit. Bleccccch.
LF Christmas tune without words?
Jingle Bells sung by dogs
LF advertising mascot dressed up as Santa
Chuck E. Cheese; this has to be one of the seven signs of the Apocalypse or something: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Q-MW4DMEb60/maxresdefault.jpg
LF thing to do this weekend?
Last-minute shopping. Not looking forward to the crowds.
Least favorite relative you are bound to meet over the holidays at a family gathering? (Pseudonyms are fine, if you don’t want to name them.)
I’ll name the least favorite relative I saw over Hanukkah. My cousin Alex. I think I’ve mentioned him before. He works for the Illinois state’s attorney’s office, always gets drunk over the holidays, brags about his lawyering prowess, and complains about the idiocy of juries. He’s a jerk, but he’s our jerk, and we love him. Still, it’s a waiting game to see when he’ll fall asleep in his chair, and we can talk about something else. One year we had a pool.
There was much relief last October when he was too busy to come to my mother’s memorial service.
Oops. LF time you attended church on Christmas [eve].
When I was feeling really crappy but had volunteered to help usher and really felt obligated to go. I spent most of the next day in bed.
LF Christmas present you ever got?
Back when I was a kid, I had ask for a colecovision ('member them?) game console. What I got instead was 1 share of stock in coleco, which promptly tanked.
LF life lesson you were supposed to learn from a present
In addition to the fun presents I’d get on my birthday, my mother would always give me one package that had clothes. I’d get a lecture on how she got new clothes for her birthday, and was always glad to get them. That may have been true, but I was a kid (and teen) who couldn’t have cared less about clothes. Plus, my mother bought me clothes year-round. She enjoyed shopping for clothes, and every couple of months, I’d come home from school, to find a pile of new stuff she’d bought, that I had to try on immediately (couldn’t even have a snack of a glass of water first), so she could take back the next day anything that didn’t fit. I hated those days.
Somehow getting clothes as a present was supposed to effect some psychological trick of making me like them because they’d come as a gift. I just resented them, because they were one fewer fun present I could have gotten.
My mother always bought tons of clothes for my son (unsolicited-- like I said, she loves to shop for clothes), but she’d send them at the beginning of each school semester, and the summer: she didn’t give them for his birthday, Hanukkah, or Purim.
LF holiday thing your family makes you do.
Doing the dishes after our feast - but they’ve gotta be done.
LF way to spend Christmas afternoon?