Given the choice between the two of you, I'd take the seasick crocodile

bethje and I watched How the Grinch Stole Christmas! last night. Beth has Rudolph and Charlie Brown on tape, so we've already seen those this year. I haven't seen Frosty the Snowman in years, though. Granted, it's not as good as those other Christmas specials, but I still wouldn't mind seeing it again.

Speaking of the Grinch, when I was in ninth grade, all the homerooms had were supposed to decorate for holidays, and there was a contest for the best. Some rooms would come up with these elaborate decorations. For instance, on Halloween, one of them had "Pumpkin Pool," with the pumpkin decorated like an eight-ball. My homeroom, however, was very lazy when it came to these things. On the day of the December door-judging, we had absolutely nothing, and someone suggested we should put up a sign saying, "The Grinch stole our decorations!" I thought it was a clever idea, but the teacher vetoed it.

A Yahoo News article [EDIT: which no longer appears to exist] on Wikipedia mentions how someone added in some false information about the Kennedy assassination as a joke. I guess there's always this sort of danger on a site that anyone can update. I remember when Phil Hartman died, some jerk posted to the IMDB that he was in a movie called "Help, My Wife Is Crazy and Has a Gun," or something like that. The thing is, anyone can also edit or question problematic additions, so I would imagine that it usually balances out. It's probably a good idea to double-check information from Wikipedia with another source, but isn't that the case with ANY source?

Anyway, this morning, I finished with the first Phantasy Star game. I had to consult a walkthrough for quite a few things, because I suck at video games. Actually, I guess I don't suck THAT badly, because most of the battles that the walkthrough writer said were really hard weren't so much for me. When I'm close to the end of a game, though, I usually don't want to bother trying to find my way through dungeons. I just want to get it over with. I can only imagine how difficult it is for the people who actually write the walkthroughs. I ended up beating the final boss twice, because the Governor of Motavia asks you a yes/no question afterwards, and I wanted to see how he reacted to each response. For the most part, the ending is exactly the same either way. After a brief ending sequence, there are credits. Fish Man wasn't involved with this one, but the writer is identified as "April Fool." I wonder if that's like when they had Simpsons episodes credited to "Penny Wise" and "Pound Foolish."

( The good, the bad, and the ugly of the game )