12/4/25 - Full Moon, Holiday TV Specials, and Christmas Cookies
- bribriny
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Thursday 12/4/25
Celebrate:
Cabernet Franc Day
Extradentary Work Team Recognition Day
International Cheetah Day
National Cookie Day
National Dice Day
National Sock Day
Santa's List Day
Wear Brown Shoes Day
Wildlife Conservation Day
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It’s the Cold Supermoon! The final full moon of the year is at 6:14pm. Because it occurs just 12 hours after perigee (the point where the moon is closest to Earth), it will appear larger and brighter than usual in the sky tonight.
Which is really fitting today. Also called the Long Night Moon, Moon of the Popping Trees (because of the frost), Snow Moon, Moon When the Deer Shed Their Antlers.
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ScreenCrush.com has ranked the best holiday TV specials.
Rankin/Bass have 6 of the top 10.
10. Nestor, The Long-Eared Christmas Donkey (1977)
9. Jack Frost (1979)
8. The Little Drummer Boy (1968)
7. Frosty The Snowman (1969)
6. Mickey's Christmas Carol (1983)
5. The Year Without A Santa Claus (1974) The one with Heat Miser and Cold Miser.
4. Santa Claus Is Coming to Town (1970) With Burgermeister Meisterburger
3. Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964) The first Rankin/Bass specials.
2. How The Grinch Stole Christmas (1966) With Boris Karloff no less.
1. A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965) All hail the Christmas King of Specials!
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What are the most popular Christmas cookies?
According to Allrecipes, it's:
The Big, Fat, Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookie! The #1 cookie all the time.
2. Rolled Sugar Cookies
3. Easy Sugar Cookies
4. Snickerdoodles
5. Ginger Cookies
6. Oatmeal Raisin Cookies
7. Linzer Tarts
8. Raspberry and Almond Shortbread Thumbprints
9. Chocolate Crinkles
10. Cranberry Pistachio Biscotti (over Gingerbread? Coconut Macaroons, Buckeyes (which aren't really a cookie), and Peanut Blossoms (the ones with the Hershey Kisses)????? Travesty!!!!!
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Ran across this meme on Facebook.
How would your brain automatically finish the phrase "If you..."
multiple choice answers
a. Wanna be my lover
b. like pina coladas
c. don't know me by now
d. 're happy and you know it
e. want to call me baby
f. wanna be with me baby there's a price to pay
g. want me to stay
h. give a mouse a cookie
i. could read my mind love
j. other
comments included:
….'ll be my bodyguard, I can be your long lost pal. I can call you Betty, and Betty when you call me, you can call me Al!"
“…'re blue, and you don't know where to go to
Why don't you go where fashion sits?
Puttin' on the Ritz!!”
…change your mind I’m the first in line!
ABBA!
…could see me now.
…don't know me by now, you will never never ever know me
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What Celebrities have a generally favorable opinion and trustworthiness among Americans?
1. Morgan Freeman 88%
2. Keanu Reeves 84%
3. Betty White 83%
4. Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson 82%
5. Samuel L. Jackson 80%
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Today's Useless Fact of the Day - The oldest continuously running Christmas commercial is, Hershey's "Christmas Bells," that first aired in 1989 and has run every year since.
The one where they are like handbells.
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