Trivia Tuesday

~ It's, for some reason, endlessly amusing for the drunk girl (i.e. NOT me) to continually turn on the seat warmer of the driver (i.e. me) that drew the short straw and is now in charge of driving her butt home - laughing like a maniac each time she did it.

~ Turns out my particular niche in trivia - the one I've been trying to find for a while now - is Christmas.  I really should have known that.  Let me tell you, there are definitely worse niches to have.

~ Snowflakes traveling at 100 mph would decrease the magic of a snow storm for kids by quite a bit.  Black eyes, carnage, the works.  That's why it's good that snowflakes only travel at 2.7 mph as opposed to the 100 mph that a certain team member wanted to go with.

~ That I've never seen Charlie Brown's Christmas is apparently scandalous.  That I had no idea what Jen was talking about when she started Mr. Heat Miser was also scandalous but not nearly as much as the missing Charlie Brown.

~ Even when the drunk girl is completely drunk, I'm not the boss of anyone. (Apparently, everyone's the boss of someone else - except me who's never the boss of anyone.) Because of this, I was forced to listen to a Driving in a Truck playlist on the way home while I was going out of my way to drive her drunk butt home...

~ 25% of people use gift cards they've been given as gifts to purchase Christmas gifts for other people.  Why have I never thought of this scheme before?  It's genius!

~ Hanukkah does not mean to light or to endure.  It means to consecrate.  I'd very much like to know why it's the festival of lights then, instead of the festival of consecration...

~ Columbus's ship, the Santa Maria sank on Christmas Day 1492, which is just too ironic for us to not have known.

~ The fact that Santa in "I saw Mommy kissing Santa Claus" is actually the kid's father, is not something that is widely known.  Wouldn't this song just be a little too adult if Dad wasn't Santa?  I mean, really?  Did people think the Jacksons were singing about an affair?  That's not the happy Christmas I think they were going for...