Jingle Bells is NOT a Christmas Song (5 Good News Christmas Stores)

0:03 Callaroga Shark Media. Hi there, I'm Johnny Mack with five good news Christmas stories. If you think I started with Christmas early this year, how about Bridlington. They started on August seventh with Bridmass Day. They included a screening of Will Ferrell's Elf. They also had Jack and the Beanstalk appearing around town. They had a holiday train. They tressed up the town for Christmas. Counselor Nick Coletisch told the BBC certainly unusual bringing Christmas to the seaside in the height of summer, but we really hope people will join in the festive fun. Counselor Barbara Jefferson said brid Miss Day is all about promoting the many fantastic events and activities we offer over the holidays. It's going to be a cracker of a day. One recent visitor gave Bridlington a one star rating, saying I could see why it's called the old town. Now no one's bothered about going.

0:57 A three star review described it as a little sad moments. However, a recent five star review has called it absolutely stunning. Christmas is where it's at. Hey, here are some fun facts about Christmas. Jingle bells is not a Christmas song, it's about Thanksgiving. The song was written in eighteen fifty seven by James Pierpont, and nowhere in the lyrics as Christmas mentioned. Wow, did you know that Xmas is not a modern thing? People think we just got lazy over the years. Oh no, no, no. People have been using the letter X to represent Christ for hundreds of years and that's where the Xmas comes from. And now about the myth that the reason Santa Claus wears red is because of Coca cola. Coke has portrayed Santa wearing red in their advertisement since nineteen thirty. However, depictions of Santa show him and read back to the nineteenth century. The contemporary image of Father Christmas that we all know in love was created by American cartoonist Thomas Nast in the eighteen seventies, so by the time Coke started with it, he was already wearing red and had a beard. A man has decorated an entire street early as a Christmas game for his wife. She has degenerative Breen disease. John has been assembling Christmas to corner garage sin September. He recently put the final lawn ornament onto his neighbor's grass, completing the display spanning more than twenty lawns. If you're driving down East Franklin Avenue, you'll see this. John says.

2:16 If one person drives by and feels happiness in their heart, you know I've done my job just hearing the kids walk down the street and yell at their mom or dad. Look at this. Look at this. Let's go look at this. You see the kids go from walking to slow jog, so then get from one house to the next. He's glad it brings joy to the kids. But the person he hopes to please is his wife. She now has Alzheimer's disease. John says she'll remember this. She wanted Christmas, so I gave her Christmas lights turn on after sunset and stay on it't till eleven pm through the end of the year. Let's follow up that heartwarming story with an anti Christmas wish list. This did not go over well on social media. Some people are calling it rude. A thirty three year old was on Reddit and said, I admit I'm difficult to buy gifts for. She elaborated, saying, I really don't want more things than I have. I have so much and nowhere to put it. Plus, I'm financially stable enough and I have cheap enough hobbies that I can usually just buy myself something when I want it.

3:06 Her mom asked her for a Christmas list, and she said, I decided to include a list of things not to buy me, figuring that might be helpful. One thing I put on the list. I don't want fun socks, no Funko pops, nothing I have to symble aka, Merry Christmas. I gave you a chory you have to do now, as I turn into Bill Burr here, Merry Christmas. I gave you a chore you have to do now. Throw blankets, throw pillows, decorations, et cetera. She says, my mom called me, asking why I did that and complaining that I never liked the gifts she gives me. I told her in the past I don't want stuff, and she'll remember for a year and then she'll buy me a pair of slipper socks, which then joined the four other pairs that I don't wear one ready. User said, you know, you could have just said you have enough stuff and don't need any more, rather than making your mom feel bad for buying them. Previously and maybe look a little more grateful.

3:51 Who put the show together today? I did? I thought this was five good news Christmas stories. Joan, why are you telling us about Satan? Well, there's a new movie out November twenty fifth called Dear Santa. Okay, what's the problem? That sounds pretty good stars Jack Black. Okay, he doesn't like Jack Black movies. This Christmas movie untangles what happens when a boy writing a letter to Santa makes a typo oh oh and accidentally addresses the letter to Satan. Jack Black as Satan appears and hilarity ensues. That actually sounds like a pretty funny plot. The Farly Brothers said when they cast Jack Black in the role, they wanted somebody who could play diabolical but in a fun way, adding that Jack Black was the first and only choice. Bobby Farreley said, there's a little bit of mischievous to him at all times, but he's eminently likable, and that's just Jack. We never wanted to make it a horror movie or something like that. We wanted it to be comical and Jack was the perfect guy. Dear Santa, which is different than Dear Satan. Dear Santa on Paramount Plus November twenty fifth, And those are your five good news Christmas stories, or at least three. I guess three of them were good news. Actually two of them were good news, one was fun facts, and two were kind of negative.

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