A Christmas Carol
Good quick Christmas read. Amazed by how closely A Muppets Christmas Carol followsmthe story
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Lisa Sanchez
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Charles Harris
The clerk in the Tank involuntarily applauded. Becoming immediately sensible of the impropriety, he poked the fire, and extinguished the last frail spark for ever.
Darkness is cheap
Andrew Doran
Indeed it is.
Scrooge had often heard it said that Marley had no bowels
Andrew Doran
Is this the same as having no guts, i.e. courage?
Jon Boyd
@Andrew: Not quite. "Bowels" is an archaic expression for compassion or pity (sort of how we might now say "he had no heart"). It's a strange expression, but it comes from an idiomatic usage in Greek, and so into English through the New Testament.
the candied fruits so caked and spotted with molten sugar as to make the coldest lookers-on feel faint and subsequently bilious.
Think of that! Bob had but fifteen “Bob” a-week himself; he pocketed on Saturdays but fifteen copies of his Christian name
Andrew Doran
I didn't realise this term was so old.
I love the comedy in this.