Think you’re ready for Christmas?  Better read the FAQ at Norad’s official Santa Tracker site to be sure.  Did you know you can still call to get Santa’s location on Christmas Eve?

And a little tune from the Muppets will help get you in the mood (and remind everyone that some things are better off key…)

If you’re online because there’s just a little too much family and togetherness going on this Thanksgiving, then this video is probably going to hit the spot, that is if you haven’t already seen it posted in ten other places. It’s classic Muppets doing Bohemian Rhapsody although with one slight lyric change on the part of Miss Piggy “nothing really matters except moi”. There are singing chickens but no turkeys….

Statistically speaking it’s easier to get a Congressional Medal of Honor than to have a muppet named after you, and I bet the muppet party is a lot more fun too.  I figure I got lucky by having a minor muppet with my first name in a few episodes – pale blue fur and a fondness for worst case scenarios; it’s not a bad fit;-) In honor of Sesame Street’s 40th birthday here are ten muppets that parody ten lucky famous people:

Juliet the Muppet

1. Barbara Streisandwich
2. David Hoggselhoff – featured in Bay of Pigswatch
3. Gingrich the Newt
4. Jean-Dodd van Clamme
5. Placido Flamingo
6. Alistair Cookie in Monsterpiece Theater
7. Bruce Stringbean – see the classic Born to Add
8. Frank Lloyd Left
9. Ethel Mermaid
10. Howie Eatswell

On this day when we are all Irish (in the same way that we were once all Berliner jelly doughnuts) the Muppets always know how to get out of knowing the words.