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Boy's Tongue Stuck to Frozen Pole After 'Christmas Story' Dare

By Hugh CollinsJan 12th 2011 – 3:11PM
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You've seen this scene before -- every Christmas. An 8-year-old Oklahoma boy got his tongue stuck on a frozen stop sign pole after his brother dared him to lick it. "The first thing that come to my mind was the movie 'A Christmas Story,'" responding Woodward firefighter Shane Pringry said, according to News Channel 4 in...

Attend the 'Christmas Story' Convention, but Beware!

By Chris EptingNov 26th 2010 – 4:42AM
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(Nov. 26) -- It's become one of the most beloved holiday exclamations, a gleeful cry of warmth and tenderness that evokes so many cups of hot chocolate around a cozy, stocking-draped fireplace: "You'll shoot yer eye out!" In 1983, the movie "A Christmas Story" roughly elbowed its way into our Christmas consciousness. A...

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A Christmas Story is a 1983 American Christmas comedy film based on the short stories and semi-fictional anecdotes of author and raconteur Jean Shepherd, including material from his books In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash, and Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories.

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