Our Halloween thrill for the day: Special Guest Jimmy Bear reads, “The Cremation of Sam McGee”!
The Cremation of Sam McGee is among the most famous of Robert W. Service’s (1874–1958) poems, published in 1907. It concerns the cremation of a prospector who freezes to death in the Yukon, as told by the man who cremates him.
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October 22, 2016 at 7:10 pm |
My guess this show is about how the tooth fairy leaves money and the Easter bunny leaves candy. Which then rots the teeth.
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October 23, 2016 at 11:16 pm |
My only Halloween “thing” is to buy a small quantity of candy corn and stuff it down my pie hole. That’s all I need for Halloween! 😀 😀
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October 23, 2016 at 1:17 am |
In the Yukon??? I have a Yukon!!!!
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October 23, 2016 at 11:16 pm |
HARRR! You do??? What kind of Yukon do you have???
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October 24, 2016 at 7:56 pm |
It’s a GMC Yukon.
I have totally resistant the candy corn all year.
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October 25, 2016 at 4:22 pm |
I hope you get just a small bag for Halloweenie. 🙂 And now I have to ask… what’s a “GMC Yukon”??
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October 27, 2016 at 10:48 am |
Hmmm. It’s a car but not a car. It’s Billy Big Rig. Okay – you’ll get this ~ Chevrolet has the suburban ~ well GMC has the Yukon. You know like the Ford Expedition is the big daddy to the Ford Escape that farty used to have.
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October 27, 2016 at 4:36 pm |
OOOoooohhhhh! That’s right, its the name of a car!!!!!!!!! I forgot!
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