My miraculous Christmas vision
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I've experienced my own Christmas miracle, the kind of vision that can only come from the Christmas spirit, along with a twisted sense of humor and a severe lack of sleep.
This morning I was half asleep, baking pigs in a blanket for my kid's class and listening to a Christmas CD. A steel drum band was playing an instrumental version of God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen when I realized that it sounded amazingly like the theme from Gilligan's Island. This could only mean one thing: Gilligan's Island was popular even in 15th-century England.
On the way to work, all I could think of was the cosmic intertwining of the lyrics of the two songs. Here are the lyrics I envisioned:
God rest ye merry gentlemen,
a tale of a fateful trip,
Remember Christ our savior
aboard this tiny ship.
The mate was a mighty sailin' man,
when we were gone astray
O-oh tiding of three-hour tour,
a three-hour tour
O-oh tiding of a three-hour tour
I hope my miraculous vision gives you a little joy during the season. Happy Holidays! xhugs
James Sokolowski
HRhero.com
This morning I was half asleep, baking pigs in a blanket for my kid's class and listening to a Christmas CD. A steel drum band was playing an instrumental version of God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen when I realized that it sounded amazingly like the theme from Gilligan's Island. This could only mean one thing: Gilligan's Island was popular even in 15th-century England.
On the way to work, all I could think of was the cosmic intertwining of the lyrics of the two songs. Here are the lyrics I envisioned:
God rest ye merry gentlemen,
a tale of a fateful trip,
Remember Christ our savior
aboard this tiny ship.
The mate was a mighty sailin' man,
when we were gone astray
O-oh tiding of three-hour tour,
a three-hour tour
O-oh tiding of a three-hour tour
I hope my miraculous vision gives you a little joy during the season. Happy Holidays! xhugs
James Sokolowski
HRhero.com
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Kind of reminds me of my high school days when we were going around singign "Amazing Grace" to the tune of "There is a house in New Orleans". Give it a try, it fits perfectly.
However, the theme music for the Twilight Zone was much better than that of The Outer Limits. Surely there are a few others on this site that have been around long enough to remember both TV shows, and I do not mean the re-runs.
It's from a Twighlight Zone episode that has haunted my pea-brain for decades
About all I can recall from the Outer Limits is at the beginning of the show your TV screen would go all snowy with lots of static and a voice over would come on telling you, Do not to attempt to adjust your sets, that they now had control of your TV. And most certainly the poor make up and special effects. I guess many of the younger forumites have no frame of reference to a snowy, static filled TV screen that you had to get up and adjust the vertical and horizontal hold every time you changed channels, which you also had to get up to do.
Speaking of poor special effects, any fans of the ole Dr. Who BBC series out there? Where they would use painted pasta strainers for space helments. My teenage boys are hooked on the new Dr. Who TV series on the SciFi network. Tonight is their special two hour season finale so I know where they will be.
Speaking of Shatner, I loved the original Star Trek shows. The Trouble With Tribbles was a favorite. I hate all the other Star Trek stuff.
This also reminds me of watching TV until they played The Star Spangled Banner, then nothing but static.
More recent history, but still applies to our employees seeming to be younger and younger: at Orientation this week, we had a really "dead" group. We had a really hard time getting them involved - they just kind of sat there listening to us.
Another trainer joked about the movie Ferris Bueller's Day Off. "Bueller? Bueller? Anyone?" It went completely over their heads. It occurred to me that they may never have seen the movie - it came out 20 years ago.
HRQ, it really gets weird when you start hiring people several years younger than your kids.
The boys are 5 and 6. x;-)
As for Bueller - "Where's your brain? Why'd you kick me? Where's your brain? Why'd you kick me?"
Pure genius.
As mentioned by Dutch2, watching Burgess Meredith in his bomb shelter full of books and a set of broken glasses, realizing he kept people out to make room for his books, which he could no longer read -- superb! And my favorite Star Trek remains "City on the Edge of Forever" with Joan Collins playing a well meaning Passivist who runs a homeless shelter in the late 1930's. She hates war & wants to keep America out of WWII, but she is suppose to die which prevents her from furthering her antiwar agenda. Kirk, who has gone back in time to save Dr McCoy, falls in love with Joan, but has to let her get hit by a truck or else she lives & history is changed as she leads an antiwar movement that keeps America out of WWII and Hitler wins. Love it! The "...Ugly, ugly,..." episode from Twilight Zone is also one of my favorites.
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One of my favorite episodes I think either from the Twilight Zone or the Outer Limits was when an alien came to earth and befriended the world leaders. Then the alien and his companions worked the the world leaders and scientists exchanging information.
The alien brought a gift to the humans, a book called "How to Serve Man". However, the contents could not be interpreted immediately. After some time the humans were also offered travel to the aliens' planet as the aliens had free access to earth. By the time it was discovered that "How to Serve Man" was a cookbook, it was too late.
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