from the soft glow of electric sex gleaming in the window.

You’ll shoot your eye out, kid

I double dog dare you!

I listened to WOR in the middle '70s when Shep was still on the radio in New York. I hear all of this in his voice, and he was the narrator of the movie, much to the movie-makers' credit.

Oh FUDGE!!!!!

Only I didn't say "Fudge."

Thief swipes ‘Christmas Story’ leg lamp from WA plumbing store

Updated Dec. 5, 2024 at 6:00 am
By Caitlyn Freeman
Seattle Times staff reporter

Marysville police are on the lookout for a 45-inch-tall lamp with fishnet stockings, a black stiletto heel and tasteful black fringe around the shade.

Erich Klemp, owner of Larry’s Plumbing Supply, was getting ready for work around 5 a.m. Monday when he got the call from police and the store’s security company. They weren’t pulling his leg.

A burglar had smashed a display window and taken his “coveted” $245 lamp — a replica of the “fra-GEE-leh” lighting that Ralphie Parker’s dad won in the 1983 cult classic “A Christmas Story.”

In the movie, Ralphie’s mom describes the lamp as “the ugliest lamp (she had) ever seen in (her) entire life...”

Complete article with photo:

https://www.seattletimes.com/s...m-wa-plumbing-store/

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That son of a bitch would freeze up in the middle of summer, on the equator!
When I heard this line in the film, it instantly reminded me of my father!

He looks like a deranged Easter bunny!

Oh, for cripes sake, open up the damper will ya? Who the hell turned it all the way down? AGAIN! Oh, blast it! Poop flirt, rattle crap, camel flirt! You blunder frattle beak struckle brat! Of a womp sack butt bottom fodder.

My kids gave this to me for my birthday

It's smiling.