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From the Secret Santa episode of Castle, "Deck the Halls" by Barry-Phillips. And for another variant on the theme, "Deck the Halls" by Helen Reddy for Mixed fandoms - Starsky & Hutch, Due South, Man from Uncle, Boston Legal, Forever Knight, Star Trek, Sherlock Holmes, House, Buffy, Lord of the Rings, Quantum Leap, and Blake's 7.

Hallmark, the Kansas City greeting card company, edited the lyrics of "Deck the Halls" on one of its 2013 ornaments to omit the word 'gay' and has received criticism on its Facebook page that puts the company in an unfamiliar position of defending a product. The original carol verse goes: "Don we now our gay apparel." But Hallmark's version, which appears on a Christmas ornament designed as an ugly Christmas sweater goes: "Don we now our FUN apparel."

The MBTA dispatcher who added some unauthorized holiday cheer to Park Street Station by programming the message boards to display the lyrics to “Deck the Halls” will likely receive the T’s most modest form of discipline when he returns to work this afternoon. “While I appreciate what they were trying to do, we’ll just remind the employee that in the future we’ll expect that he’ll resist the temptation to use the signs in that way,” state Secretary of Transportation Richard A. Davey said in an interview this morning. The unnamed employee has become a hero on Twitter since the Globe...

It looked like the gentlest MIT prank of all time: The lyrics to “Deck the Halls,” dancing across the digital message board at Park Street Station, to the delight of Red Line riders on Christmas night. It was not an outside hack, though, but an inside job. An MBTA dispatcher working the holiday shift injected a bit of unauthorized whimsy into the normally staid LED signs at Park Street. He programmed them to scroll the lyrics to the carol four times in five minutes Sunday night, before, mirage-like, they resumed their ordinary display of date, time, and the T logo....

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CASTRO VALLEY - At least one night a year, both the gifts and the nudists come wrapped at the Sequoians Clothes Free Club. "Honestly, there are some members who aren't happy we have clothed events," said the club's vice president, Bill Hendricks. The Sequoians' annual Christmas potluck and gift exchange is a strictly fabric-required event."But we do it so our members can bring their family and friends and everyone can feel comfortable," Hendricks added. "Usually when these people come to an event like this and see what this place is all about, they're much more accepting of the club."Apparently a...

Just heard this on FNC...the DHS is saying that attacks are possible in other cities and everyone should be especially vigiliant and that transit is not the only target ...More info soon.

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