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A malapropism (/ ˈ m æ l ə p r ɒ p ɪ z əm /; also called a malaprop, acyrologia or Dogberryism) is the incorrect use of a word in place of a word with a similar sound, either unintentionally or for comedic effect, resulting in a nonsensical, often humorous utterance.
A Wish for Wings That Work: An Opus Christmas Story is a children's book by Berkeley Breathed that was published in 1991. It was made into an animated television special that same year. The book and special feature characters from Breathed's comic strips Bloom County and Outland.
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever (titled The Worst Kids in the World in Australia, New Zealand and the UK) is a children's novel written by Barbara Robinson in 1972. It tells the story of six misfit children who volunteer to star in their town's Sunday school Christmas pageant , and end up teaching the town the true meaning of Christmas.
Summary: As Norway's worst postal student, Jesper (Jason Schwartzman) is exiled to Smeerensburg and instructed to deliver 6,000 letters within a year.Through befriending a carpenter named Klaus (J ...
The book offered a depiction of a ghetto, a deportation, a death camp, and a death march, from the perspective of a Jewish survivor with an instinct for literary framing. Night became a mainstay ...
The 1993 stop-motion musical is firmly a Christmas movie as Jack Skellington — voiced by Chris Sarandon, and his songs performed by Danny Elfman — tries to transform the spooky Halloween Town ...
The story of what Father Christmas does the 'other' 364 days a year. The First Christmas: The Story of the First Christmas Snow: 1975: Stop Motion special. A Flintstones Christmas Carol: 1994: The Flintstones version of Charles Dickens' 1843 novella A Christmas Carol as a play with Fred as Scrooge and everybody else in respective roles. The ...
Switchmas (earlier titles Ira Finkelstein's Christmas and All I Want Is Christmas) is an American musical comedy film directed by Sue Corcoran. It tells the story of a Christmas-obsessed Jewish boy on his way to sunny Florida who figures out how to get the Christmas of his dreams by trading airline tickets and places with another boy on his way to snowy Christmastown, Washington.