SATURDAY SALUTE

It's finally arrived.

Oh, no, not Christmas.

You still are blessed with a few more days of the Catalyst's Christmas Comedy Cavalcade.

What HAS finally arrived is . . . (drum roll) . . . THE WINTER SOLSTICE!

The shortest day of the year.

Beginning tomorrow each day will have a little more sunshine!

I guess I'd better hurry out and water the cacti.

Oh and I'd better look for a job while I'm out there for once again the Lottery Gods looked down and decided I was not yet worthy.

I got zero numbers on last night's drawing for an estimated 862 million bucks.

Sigh.

But nobody else won it and the next jackpot is estimated to be 944 million dollars and the drawing is on CHRISTMAS EVE!

How can I miss, right?

While I'm counting the zeros in my next windfall, let's take a look at what the Comedy Elves have found for this 13th day of humor before Christmas.

Ho-Ho-Ho

THE FRIDAY FUNNIES

It's Friday again and Day Twelve of (will it never end?) Catalyst's Christmas Comedy Cavalcade.

This is the last Friday before the Big Day so you can expect to get totally inundated with holiday crassness and pseudo-hilarity.

But wait!

Santa is coming early to the Catalyst's humble abode.

In fact tonight, this very night!

For tonight is the night that I shall have the winning ticket for the MegaMillions Jackpot Drawing.

825 Million Smackeroos will be mine before the sun rises again!

Wait! You say you've heard this before?

Well that was just an error of accounting.

Either the people drawing the numbers or (perhaps) in my reporting the news.

But tonight, I am sure, will be different.

Then you'll see!

Whilst you wait, let's see what the Humor Elves have dredged up for this sunny Friday.

Phew!

Now that you've had that dose of dizzy, dopey daffiness, dine well this weekend and make it memorable.

Oh, and there are only five more shopping days until Christmas!!!!

And don't get the holiday blues . . . always remember to keep laughing!

Here kitty-kitty . . .

( . . . oh, I see the family has arrived for the holidays . . . )

TO CONTINUE

Today is Day Eleven of the now legendary Catalyst's Christmas Comedy Cavalcade for 2024.

As always the Humor Elves who supply my Amusement Bank with material have been keeping me well supplied.

So, let's see how that Grandma from yesterday did with that charging reindeer, shall we.

Ah, it looks like she got even and is now enjoying her Christmas cookies and hot chocolate.

You might be wondering where all those flying reindeer that Santa Claus employs originate.

You wouldn't be the only one.

Santa has confided in Oddball that he has to test them out before the big night.

And then they have to be trained.

So with all of that going on up at the North Pole, let's leave it there for today.

But remember, there are only 6 more shopping days until Christmas!

Ho-Ho-Ho!

'TWAS THE TENTH DAY

The Catalyst's Christmas Comedy Cavalcade continues.

But first a safety alert.

Ho-Ho-Ho!

I'll betcha we got ya with that one, didn't we?

Here in the Central Highlands of Arizona though there is no snow, it was 34 degrees when I rose at 5 a.m., and I haven't seen a sign of any reindeer.

Or reindeers.

But never mind that, shoppers.

Just be reminded that there is now only ONE WEEK UNTIL CHRISTMAS!!!

Now let's on with the regular silliness

Ho-Ho-Ho!

Don't worry.

Just remember we're only out for the cheap laugh here at Oddball.

See you tomorrow.

THE NINTH DAY

Yes it's day nine of the Catalyst's Christmas Comedy Cavalcade.

Since I'm up early today and still trying to make out the print on my computer screen, I'm going to keep this short.

Because my elves have been so busy, I have a plethora of funnies so you'll get some extra before the big day.

Which, may I remind you procrastinators, is now only 8 days away!

Here are your Holiday Howls for the day.

Ho-Ho-Ho

DAY EIGHT

Can it really be the eighth day of this interminable Christmas Comedy Cavalcade?

It can and it is!

But before we get to that, let me show you the pride and joy that lives at the home of one of my neighbors.

That's a sleigh that would awe even Santa Claus.

It's a beautifully customized 1950's era Chevrolet.

Notice, if you will, the special tires and the beautiful rear windows.

I commented to him on my first seeing it that he had even tinted them.

But he corrected me to say they were actually red glass he'd had made.

It's a gorgeous creation that he's made and the license plate and frame describe the pride he has in it.

But now let's get back to the business at hand and see what's going on with the holidays, shall we?

Ho-Ho-Ho!

Note: only nine (9) more days until Christmas!

DAY SEVEN

Oh my gosh, I almost forgot to post today and here I am counting the days until the Comedy Cavalcade can cease.

Well, forgive me, please and may your SUN-day truly be sunny with this small diversion before the humor.

Just to show you one of my latest experiments in the kitchen - - my breakfast/brunch the other day.

Two fried eggs, buttered toast and the epitome of long-ago Bachelor Food: fried Spam!

Go ahead and sneer but  . . . I. Like. Spam.

Whether fried as this is or just straight out of the can in a sandwich.

But now let me put that gagging sound I'm hearing out of my memory and give you what you really came here for.

Ho-Ho-Ho.