Posted on 11/19/2007 12:09:19 PM PST by OSHA
'Ralphies' gathering on Thanksgiving weekend
If you identify with Ralphie Parker, the 9-year-old Midwestern boy who longed for a BB gun, you may wish to spend Thanksgiving weekend in Cleveland with fans of the movie "A Christmas Story."
That's when your fellow "Ralphies" will meet actors who played in the 1983 cult classic, tour the restored Cleveland home used in the movie and enjoy a Christmas dinner, just like the Parker family, at the C & Y Chinese restaurant.
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How is that lamp of yours???
I heard all sorts of positive things about that movie, “it’s so funny!”, it’s heartwarming”, etc. I thought it the one of the coldest, most depressing Christmas movies out there. I won’t make the mistake of watching it again.
That and the 1952 version of A Christmas Carol are the best things on televsion during Christmas.
Stop blushing...:-)
I do have a soft spot for the movie.
Love your tag. Hey maybe you can go work for CBS I hear they have openings. Maybe you and buckhead can get a job in research for the writers.
“Life Buoy on the other hand...”
That must’ve been after I went off to college - I don’t remember flying tales on the radio but I did catch some of his PBS series, one episode related to plane ownership.
No, I never read any of his books. Any recommendations?
When I saw that movie the first time I almost fainted. I thought they had filmed my life as a child.
I was born in 1940, looked a lot like Ralphie, put my tongue on the school flag pole, our dogs got our Christmas turkey off the drainboard, and I wanted a Red Ryder BB gun so bad I can’t even describe it.
I still watch it every year. It’s like a memorial to my childhood.
Excelscior! You Fat Head.
Will do!
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