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  1. well it isnt a xmas memory , but when i was about 10 we went back east and there was a huge family picnic hundreds of relatives, my grandma had given me a bunny (they were all farmers lol ) and i let it get loose and all the aunts started trying to chase it around and under the big long tables, and these were not small women lol alot of big butts bending over and crawling around the ground,and alot of noise, it was too funny
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  2. I collected stamps and one day my aunt came visit with her children and they actually used them to send letters and when i found out I should've been mad but they were so cute in their apologies I couldn't be mad at them.

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  3. I don't really gather with too much of my family, especially during the holidays. Most of them are unpleasant lol. With the exception of my parents. A funny holiday moment last year though, was when my parents, brother, and I decided to take my niece to a nearby farm that has special attractions during the Christmas season. They have snow, tubing, and ice skating, etc (we live in California, so this is exciting for us that all this is local lol). My brother took her ice skating while we watched. And he was trying to be extremely careful with her, making sure she didn't fall, as she was only 4 and had never been. He himself had never ice skated before, so he was really unsteady out there. He ended up being the one to fall, but it was a loooong comical fall. He couldn't stop himself (though he tried desperately) as he continued in a long forward stumble with his arms flailing about, did a huge twirl- which almost looked intentional, as it impressed people around us who were watching. At the end of the accidental twirl he stopped for about 15 seconds, teetered backwards, arms making wild circular motions, and then resumed his forward stumble til he got to the opposite end of the rink and finally landed sprawled out on the ice face down lol.

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  4. When I was 16, it was MY turn to hand out the presents. I reached back to get the last gift and toppled over the tree! Not my most shining moment but it made everyone laugh!

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  5. A couple of years ago I showed up at my grandparents house for Christmas and discovered my aunt had gotten a GIANT chest tattoo. I mean, massive. It was a huge shock, because she's kind of a straight-laced 50-year-old mom! But oh well, more power to her. The hilarity happened when I was talking to her sister about it. The conversation went something like this:

    Me (whispering): Can you believe that tattoo?!

    My aunt (at the top of her lungs): WELL AT LEAST IT'S NOT ON HER VAGINA.

    Everyone stopped. I guess yelling vagina at Christmas will do that. After a few long moments, everyone just went back to normal and never asked what we were talking about.

    By far my most memorable family moment ;-)

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  6. My funniest memory is my Husband baking cookies but using salt instead of sugar accidentally. It was only when everyone was biting into them his mistake was identified.

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  7. When I was little we would always get a real Christmas tree and it seemed like every year there would be a mouse in it when we brought it home. We just started calling them our Christmas mice.

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  8. One thanksgiving the guys in the family tried to see who could hike a turkey the furthest.
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  9. Our funniest is when the kids were decorating our tree and the tree started moving. The kids started yelling that the tree was haunted but come to find out it was our little kitten, he stuck his head from the tree it was so cute and funny

    Kristie Betts
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  10. I love putting the tree up with my mom on black friday

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  11. my brother catdching his future wife under the mistletoe

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  12. My daughter's expression on her first meeting with Santa Claus will forever be imprinted on my memory. She was NOT happy! LOL

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  13. Our funnest memory is ALWAYS getting together to unwrap presents. It always is fun, and the cats always play with the wrapping paper!

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  14. My funniest memory was when our youngest opened a toy that I had wrapped in a coffeemaker box and was then upset that it was not actually a coffeemaker.

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  15. When as kids in a rush to open presents we knocked over the tree
    Sylvia White
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  16. My funniest memory is when I seen my cat attack the Christmas tree knocking ornaments down
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  17. We used to love wrapping a tiny gift in a huge box. The kids would have such a shocked faced. lol

    Jennifer Rote
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  18. When our electricity went out. We lit candles and broke out the instruments. i was a teenager and had a little toooooo much sugar. I started bouncing off the wall and ended up smacking real hard into the wall and fell over

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  19. I dont really have any funny memories of Christmas... how sad is that :S But rest assured the ones I do have are all good!

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  20. My then 4 year old went Christmas shopping with his dad for me. He came home and said mommy we got you perfume and clothes and proceeded to list all my gifts. He was so excited we couldn't be upset with him.
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  21. I think my funniest memory was when my mom told me she set out traps to catch us if we tried to sneak out to Santa Claus.

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  22. Okay this one goes back a few years. When my Dad turned 21, his younger brother got him a coke truck for Christmas. Of course he didn't want it and it went to the younger brother. SO the tradition in our family is that whenever you give a gift to someone that you really want for yourself, it's called a coke truck. We even had a toy coke truck that traveled the family for a while being awarded to the best "coke Truck" gift of the year. Seems like someone liked the truck a little too much and it hasn't been seen in a few years. =)

    Valerie
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  23. My favorite Christmas memory if of waking Christmas Ever because my Dad was putting together a Barbie Dream House for my sister and I and had decided to use power tools. The best part is how he tried to explain that Santa came but didn't have time to put the toys together so he had left it up to my Dad.

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  24. I've seen my little siblings dress up as elves (and look convincing as them) XD That always gets a laugh out of the family !

    Kara D
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  25. Not too many funny memories as such, although I do remember fondly watching the cat pull a decoration off the tree and run off with Santa's head in her mouth.

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  26. My funniest memory was when my stepmother was decorating the tree and she got behind it and it broke (it was fake). We ended up wrapping the pole with rope to hold it together and hiding the rope in the branches and ornaments. When my dad got near the tree on Christmas day he knocked it over and thought he was the one who broke it. We laugh about that Christmas all the time now.

    AndreaH
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  27. Nothing silly or funny comes to mind. I do recall that as a child, I crept into the living room under the cloak of darkness after "Santa" had come so I could take a peek at the stuff, when clatter-bang-bump-run..... I stumbled over the electric train that Dad had arranged all over the floor around, under, in front of, and to the side of the tree. Needless to say, I'd been had.

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  28. The funniest moment happened this year! We just celebrated because my husband is training for deployment. Well My daughter is 9 months old and grabbed our little tree and it fell over her! She started to giggle! Good thing it was a really small tree!


    Christyn Mckenna

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  29. My family is a little crazy. We can't just sit around doing nothing. One Christmas when I went down to visit, my four sisters and I were running down the hall and hurdling the doggie gate.

    That turned into getting out the mini tramp and jumping over the couch onto a air mattress on the other side. All the while we did this, the hubbies were sitting around wondering what they married into.

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  30. My funniest Christmas memory was when my husband went to Africa for the time between Thanksgiving and Christmas. He brought back traditional African clothing for everyone, so on Christmas morning my whole family sat around opening presents and having brunch while wearing African garb.

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  31. When I was little we would go see my grandparents in AZ. My grandpa would make fudge from scratch and it was the best! We would all sit around him when he was beating the fudge to get it to the right thickness. I loved it! :-)

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  32. When my daughters powered wheelchair got stuck on the tree and she took it for a ride.
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  33. A funny memory i have is taking a picture in front of my aunt's xmas tree. Later when i looked at the picture, somehow the star showed up right on the top of my head. It looked like i had a star coming out of my hair!


    jennifer k

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  34. We all gathered for Christmas. The turkey was in the oven and all, then my brother walked in and announced he was getting married. My mom burnt the turkey and we had sandwiches but it was great!

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  35. I'm the one how is in charge to sit next to the chrismas tree and give the presents to every one, 2 year ago there where alot of presents so there were gift on all the way on the back on the tree that was in to a wall, when i get under the tree i got stuck.

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  36. When I was 18 and my youngest sister was 3, my Dad came in from milking the cows and told my younger sister to look in his jacket. She did and squealed! Inside was a new puppy. She loved Groovy for many many years!

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  37. The funniest holiday memory was the year our fat cat decided he wanted to climb our decorated tree. He ended up breaking it and since we had spent hours decorating the tree and it was so close to Christmas day we decided to keep it but had to anchor it to the wall with a bungee cord so it wouldn't fall over.

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  38. My cat was hiding in the box under the Christmas tree, and my little nephew thought she was a gift.

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  39. Christmas day is also my husband's birthday so the first year we were married I tried to decorate my own cake. It looked horrible. It taste good at least. Now I just buy a cake from the bakery.

    Margaret
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  40. Last Christmas, I gave my mom a battery-powered pepper grinder. She opened it and thought it was an adult toy! :X

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  41. my funniest memory is when my dad was given this bow from a fancy home-goods type store where you had to pull the edges to make it bunch up and look pretty, but he had no idea what to do with it and when he gave a present to my mom (a bottle of wine) there it was, knotted and hanging around the neck of the bottle, looking awful. When we showed him how it worked his reaction was priceless

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  42. Funny... hmmm.... must have been the thanksgiving the water pipe burst in the basement. Yucky mess but we laughed so hard

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  43. We were taping my brother shooting fireworks and the bottle rocket fell over. On the tape you could hear everybody screaming and see us all running :).

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  44. We tried being sophisticated one year after going to a dinner party of our friends from Europe. So we tried roasting chestnuts. However my brother didn't score them and not long after they were in the oven we started hearing banging sounds. Those chestnuts exploded everywhere, including the ceiling!

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  45. My nephew had gotten a Wii as a gift. My father said to him, "oooo, you got a W. I. I." (instead of 'wee') - that has always tickled me! Email: yona(at)pricelesswriters.com

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  46. Every year my grandparents would come to spend Christmas with us. My grandmother always put out a small dish of munchies for everyone to nibble on. This one Christmas, we got a puppy and so he wouldn't over eat, my mother picked up the cats food and placed it on the counter.
    Later that evening, my grandmother asked my mom what were those scrumptious new munchies she had placed on the counter. My grandmother had eaten the cats food mistaking it for some snack item! We all had a good laugh, and we wrapped a bag of cat food and placed it under the tree for a gag gift. We still talk about it every Christmas and laugh.

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  47. At a Christmas party, I once shoved a rectangle of Jello up my nose to impress my six year old daughter :D

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  48. As a child, every year I would mistake a gift I unwrapped at Christmas time as something it was not. I'd always make a big deal out of how excited I was to have a , and my family would have a good laugh. Good thing I didn't get disappointed once I figured out how off I was. Hahaha. I wish I could remember an example off the top of my head, they were pretty ridiculous.

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  49. Well, I think it's funny, but my sister doesnt even though its been 8 or 9 years ago. While my sister and most of kids were sleeping on Christmas Eve, my nephew and his cousin (then they were about 4 or 5, they are 14 now, having narrowly escaped this incident)were not asleep. The two boys unwrapped everyone's gifts, put the girls toys in the trash, broke some, lost some in the snow, and in general made a big mess.
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  50. We love unwrapping presents with our dog. He helps us & does it very gently. It's so cute. Thanks for the giveaway! Gloria

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  51. When I was a little girl I had a snowman jar full of candy that had a styrofoam top hat as the lid. A friend of my mother's came by with her children and the little boy took a bite out of the hat. He said it was so pretty that he thought it would taste good! lol He had green glitter all over his face and on his tongue.

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  52. I do not recall why most of my mom's side of the family was gathered together on my birthday (10th I think?)- but it wasn't to celebrate that really. They did celebrate it though, with a cake. My aunt carried it into the kitchen and was about to place it on the table when it somehow fell and landed on my shirtless uncle's lap! It was disappointing to not have cake, but it was the thought that counts.

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  53. One Christmas, my cousins put together a dance performance. When it was time for my cousin Roy to turn his sister, he fell on her instead. It was cute and funny because he was 5 and she was 7 and much taller than he was so he couldn't turn her properly.

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  54. A friend and I were outside playing in the snow and got to laughing so hard that she wet her pants

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  55. My funniest memory happened our family reunion Christmas party a few years ago. All the adults played a game of fruit basket and my husband grabbed onto the back of his brother's pants and they ripped all the way down to his feet!

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  56. Trying to cram a family of 40 into a small house.

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  57. My funniest memory was when my 2 year old came downstairs and saw all the presents, zoomed in on one stuffed animal, and wouldn't open anything else!!

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  58. My family is way too uptight to be funny!

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  59. Actually, MOST of my family gaterings turn out really bad, BUT I have one funny memory. We were having a Family reunion, and my Papa got really drunk and stole my Great Grandma's motorized Scooter, and her walking cane, and started driving it around and hitting random people with the cane. My mom was SUPER embarassed and made us leave immediately.

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  60. One of my memories is my brothers riding on a saucer sled behind a snowmobile...

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  61. Funniest was when our tree fell down cuz the cat tried to climb it :)
    marie h

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  62. I honestly can't think of one... all of my memories blur together (but they are all good!)

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  63. My mom wanted to make my first Christmas home from college special so she bought everyone in the family these fugly sweaters.

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  64. My funniest was three years ago when my children aged 9, 11, and 13 were at my in-laws and they were opening their gifts when my 13 year old son opened one of "his" packages and it was a nail polish kit. My Mother-In-Law snagged it up and then gave it to my daughter.
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  65. love Amazon. thanks for the chance to win!

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  66. Probably when my dog knocked over the Christmas tree during dinner! jessicapeeling@yahoo.com

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  67. My husband I were so excited to put up Christmas decorations outside of the house we somehow locked ourselves out. We enjoyed 15 minutes of watching the fruits of our labor till my in laws came with a spare key lol.

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  68. when my daughter (who was 4 at the time) told everyone at christmas dinner that she saw mommy and santa claus by the tree wiggling under the blanket.
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  69. I guess the funniest memory would be when my hubby decided to get our 16 month old a toy chain saw and Logan decided to cut down the Christmas tree and he copped till the tree hit the floor. lol...
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  70. Just this Thanksgiving a friend came in from smoking and happened to stand under the smoke alarm. It started beeping like crazy. We ending up changing the battery to get it to stop.

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  71. We had the tree all decorated and than all of a sudden it fell over. At least nothing was broken, it just made us all laugh.

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  72. I remember one holiday when my Aunt put this birthday cake on the back of an upside down glass tray and it started sliding off and almost set the house on fire. It wasn't funny at the time, but it sure was later.

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  73. I gave my brother one of those joke lottery tickets, he didn't think it was funny. I did though.

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  74. My funniest holiday memory was when I cooked or didnt cook my first prime rib. I set the timer to turn off way to early and we had nothing to eat but hot dogs

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  75. My family has a raunchy sense of humor at times. I was very young at the time, but one Xmas my parents gave my uncle a life-size blow up doll! LOL!!! I remember this, and I know it was a joke of some sort, but I never found out the details (and probably don't want to know!).

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  76. Funnest, maybe when we made a dish for our annual potluck Christmas dinner and that was the first dish to be finished! Is that counted as fun?

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  77. my funniest memory from christmas is when i was younger we had a video camera recording everyone opening gifts. my older sister got right in front of the camera sayin merry christmas and her snot dripped in my moms coffee on video!

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  78. Well it was funny when I picked out a watch that I wanted & let my boyfriend wrap it up for me. When I opened it on Christmas morning there was no watch inside. It was an engagement ring.

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  79. My husband and I had been dating for a few months and he invited me to spend Thanksgiving with his family. I was going to meet his parents...scary stuff :) I was sitting talking with his mother and we were munching on some raw veggies. She asked me a question and I had just taken a bite of a carrot stick. I didn't want her to think I was rude or that I was ignoring her question, so I answered with food in my mouth...and a little piece of carrot flew out of my mouth and hit her on the head. Yeah, not one of my shining moments :) She was a great sport and we all had a good laugh.

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  80. We have a tradition of giving an embarassing gift every Christmas in our family and one year I was the target by my sister who gifted me a gigantic bra I opened in front of everyone. It was funny though!

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  81. My dad always sang A Partridge in a pear tree as Porridge in a pear tree. It was always so funny.

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  82. I became a vegetarian when I was about 13 or so, the only veggie in my family. That year during the holidays, my family jokingly tried to get my little cousin, 2-3 years old at the time, to get me to eat a piece of ham. He didn't quite understand and instead put it on my head...gross, but everything thought it was hilarious!!

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  83. My mother made us all matching PJ's , we all were funny looking but It was grest fun.
    Terri M.
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  84. My moms pumpkin pie exploded in our basement - We thought a bomb went off

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  85. It was after Christmas dinner and my mom had put the dishes in the dishwasher and my sister had put the soap in, she put to much soap in and the whole entire kitchen was under suds :)

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  86. We were all eating at a McDonalds after Church and my Mom was sitting across from my Dad and something made her laugh, with a mouth full of strawberry shake that she spit it all over my Dad! We all died laughing, except Dad! lol Holly Hennessy Swint astroqueen67@hotmail.com

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  87. my sister first time cooking when the soup look like bridget jones' (emscout9 at hotmail dot com)

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  88. My Aunt peeing her pants watching Christmas Vacation. I know not funny, but it is funny.

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  89. Last thansgiving my brother decided he wanted to host so we all went over there for the meal- where he proceeded to burn the turkey, drop the potatoes on the floor and catch his shirt on fire! LOL!@
    cassandra@aubut.net

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  90. The Christmas just before my daughter was one She fell asleep under the tree. The Cat jump on her scared her, she scared the cat and together they knocked the tree over

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  91. Well, my family ends to be pretty entertaining, but I got one.

    My 20-year-old cousin has some weird neighbors, including an elderly lady that has a tendency to watch my cousin and his roommate from her window. Well, we spotted her watching our X-Mas party last year, for quite some time. So my cousin took a zebra tribal-looking mask that they had and taped it to his head, converted a brown towel into a loincloth, blasted some tribal music via YouTube, and started fake-tribal dancing in front of there glass sliding door.

    You know, as one does when they know they're being watched by creepy oggling old ladies. The whole family was pretty much rolling on the floor laughing.

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  92. When my neice was about two years old, when her dad came out dressed as Santa at the caroling party, she lost her mind. She cried out, "Santa ate my daddy." So when Jeff took the beard off and showed it was still him, she seemed okay. When he went to put the beard back on, she hugged his leg and sad, "Goodbye Daddy." She didn't understand that he was just pretending to be Santa. So very cute.

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  93. We spent Christmas in Disney World a few years ago. The entire family was there, and it was a blast!

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  94. Well the first thing I think of is last year's Christmas, when my then 2 year old was SO EXCITED about everything, and really wanted to "help" everyone open their gifts, so we had some good laughs over his overjoyed exclamations of things like, "Oh, SOCKS! I love socks!"

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  95. When the cats try to climb up the tree!!

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  96. Probably my sister and I play fighting to the point where I somehow managed to get rug burn on my face... yea. It was Christmas day and we were full grown... lol

    crystalmarieporter at gmail dot com

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  97. I loved when I was a teenager and my whole family would play board games after eating dinner

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  98. The funniest thing was my nephew screaming and jumping for a bowling set
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