***The Official Friday Silliness Thread****

[Lucky9teen]

Get ready to send out those Christmas cards (and letters)....

The first commercial Christmas cards were commissioned by Sir John Callcott Horsley in London, 1843, and featured an illustration by Henry Cole. The picture, of a family with a small child drinking wine together, proved controversial, but the idea was shrewd.

Early English cards rarely showed winter or religious themes, instead favoring flowers, fairies and other fanciful designs that reminded the recipient of the approach of spring. Humorous and sentimental images of children and animals were popular, as were increasingly elaborate shapes, decorations and materials.

The production of Christmas cards was, throughout the 20th century, a profitable business for many stationery manufacturers, with the design of cards continually evolving with changing tastes and printing techniques. The World Wars brought cards with patriotic themes. Idiosyncratic "studio cards" with cartoon illustrations and sometimes risque humor caught on in the 1950s. Nostalgic, sentimental, and religious images have continued in popularity, and, in the 21st century, reproductions of Victorian and Edwardian cards are easy to obtain. Modern Christmas cards can be bought individually but are also sold in packs of the same or varied designs.

In recent decades changes in technology may be responsible for the decline of the Christmas card. The estimated number of cards received by American households dropped from 29 in 1987 to 20 in 2004.[1] Email and telephones allow for more frequent contact and are easier for generations raised without handwritten letters - especially given the availability of websites offering free email Christmas cards. Despite the decline, 1.9 billion cards were sent in the U.S. in 2005 alone. [2] Some card manufacters, such as Hallmark, now provide E-cards.

[Lucky9teen]

[captjanaway]

I’m sending Rudolph with the lawyer to every trucker I know... these are cute!

[Lucky9teen]

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Are you sending out cards this year?





And something a bit off topic, but fun....

What is your favorite movie chase scene (preferably pre-CGI) - car or foot?

[exile]

What Holiday are Fidel, Worf and the brats celebrating? Is it’s Stalin’s birthday already?

[Dallas59]

[DooDahhhh]

This is not cute

[JoeProBono]

[JoeProBono]

[4yearlurker]

I remember the Dancing Chicken! Back in the late 60s The Steel Pier in Atlantic City had The Dancing Chicken,The Chicken that played baseball and the Kissing Bunny. Just 10 cents apiece for such enthralling entertainment.

[JoeProBono]

[Dallas59]

Last one I saw was at the Fort Worth Zoo. I was 6 or 7.

[fredhead]

What is your favorite movie chase scene (preferably pre-CGI) - car or foot?

You left out horseback.....

I don’t remember the movie title, but in one of John Wayne’s early “B” movies, there’s a chase scene (wasn’t there always?) where the camera zooms out to a panoramic shot, and the audience can see the high tension electrical wires in the background.

Also, the scene in “McLintock!” where John Wayne chases Maureen O’Hara through the town, finally catching her and administering a spanking with an ash shovel.

[JoeProBono]

[Eagle50AE]

>What is your favorite movie chase scene (preferably pre-CGI) - car or foot?<

Steve McQueen - Bullitt

close 2nd Ryan O’Neil - The Driver

[fredhead]

I guess he'd rather hear Bob Dylan singing the Christmas carols.

[Daffynition]

Season's Greetings to All ...Walken in a Winter Wonderland

[upchuck]

What is your favorite movie chase scene (preferably pre-CGI) - car or foot?

Yeah, screw all that CGI fake crap.

Bullitt!

[Doogle]

without doubt Bullitt
little known fact, same driver Bill Hickman(bad guy) drove the charger in bullitt as well as the pontiac in another great movie chase scene Seven Ups...and another vehicle in yet another great chase scene in The French Connection.

[rockabyebaby]

Woooooooooooooohooooooooooooooo! In the top 20!!! Happy FRIDAY!

[Drawsing]

Favorite chase scene?

Wallace and Gromit in "The Wrong Trousers"... Chasing the evil penguin on the train tracks.