a local scaffold company always does a really cool and really big (3 stories) lit piece on their front lawn. usually a christmas tree or something like that. last year it was the abominable snow monster from Rudolph. this year!!!...well...its a major award!!
It's a takeoff on the movie "a Christmas story" where the dad won a lamp that was a scantily clad woman's leg. It came in a box marked "fragile" which he pronounced fra-Jill-wee, like it was some foreign word. It's a great movie. I think it was made in Canada in the '80's. I'm pretty sure they drive an old woody wagon to pick up their Xmas tree. This year, I'll be watching to see if I can identify the make and model. Maybe someone out there already knows? Every year it plays all day on TBS if you haven't seen it before.
It's a leg lamp! And it's frageeelay! Or a bowling alley. I thought the car was a 40 or 41 Chrysler. Maybe?
IMDB is wonderfull! The movie was released in 1983. The car was an Olds sedan, but I'm not sure of the year. I'm sure somebody out there knows exactly what it was.... You can get your very own "Major Award" leg lamp here: And a cute "taking home the tree" ornament, too!: And, for only $64.95 plus shipping, you can get - or give - your very own Red Rider BB gun..... It's all here, at the gift shop of "The Christmas Story House" http://www.achristmasstoryhouse.com/ Too funny!
I recognized it right away... Great movie. We watch it every year. Just a few years before my time, but I can still relate to most of it (although growing up in SoCal, I never experienced freezing my tongue to a light pole).
KK wrote: "I never experienced freezing my tongue to a light pole". \When i was growing up in Canada, there was a mean trick the "big kids" would play on little tykes.... They would try to get the little kids to lick the bottom of their ice skate blades. They would tell them the ice shavings tasted like peppermint, or whatever it took to get the little ones to try it. Ugly...
Our local Walgreens has that leg lamp in about 18" size for sale. Probably other places too. But as we pass to the drug counter I see those. First one I ever saw was several years ago in a store front window downtown Memphis. I wanted it badly! Wife mentioned something about breaking my leg if I came home with one.
