Is that a monkey stuffed in your stocking, or are you just happy to see me?

Along with everyone else, I get tons of spam. My spam filters are set pretty high, so they have to be pretty stealthy to slip through. Typically, I simply delete without ever opening them. This morning, however, I was tantalized:

From: Voted Stocking Stuffer of the Year
Subject: Amazing Flying Monkey- For under $10.

How could I resist?! I clicked through, and the page took a while to load. This hesitation immediately led me to start doubting the validity of this item.

I then started having blog déjà vu…

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Haven’t I previously written about flying monkeys?

A quick search of my posts revealed I had.

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I am now convinced it is a sign, and I am destined to have one.

In the meantime, a coworker appeared in my office to ask a legitimate question. Just as she was leaving, my computer suddenly started screeching at me. The page had finally loaded and there it was: The Amazing Flying Monkey in all its glory.

The video on the site provides good schlocky fun… little boys hurling flying, screeching monkeys over tall Christmas trees…

Rather than provide you with the link that came with the spammy email (especially since the source page was entitled Новый плеер! which I’m pretty sure translates to Spams R Us - neep! ), I went to YouTube and searched for “flying monkey” to try to find the video there. No luck. However, a link to InOnline.com’s page - the link in my spam email - appeared on the YouTube search results page. Also appearing among the results was this bit of inspiration:

I SOOOO want to do this. Who’s in?

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Nothing jejune about these cartoons

So, there’s this whole business about having a kid and how it leads to rediscovering elements of your own childhood. The joys… the toys… the trials… the tribulations…

Like, right now, Sofie is totally into A Charlie Brown Christmas.

Not that it ever dropped off my radar. But I am enjoying it more this year than I have in many years. Although, admittedly, it’s not as though I am once again seeing it through a child’s set of eyes. More like my current 40 year old eyes.

Lucy: Incidentally, I know how you feel about all this Christmas business, getting depressed and all that. It happens to me every year. I never get what I really want. I always get a lot of stupid toys or a bicycle or clothes or something like that.

Charlie Brown: What is it you want?

Lucy: Real estate.

Brilliant.

More cartoonish holiday fun… This is one of my favorite Calvin & Hobbes comic strips. I actually cut it out of the Sunday paper when it first appeared and still have it.

Click the image to enlarge and fully appreciate.

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