THE PUZZLE CORNER: DECEMBER 20, 2025

 😎FUN FACT

10 year old Gayla Peevey of Oklahoma City first performed ♫I Want A Hippopotamus🦛 For Christmas♫ in 1953, but NOT as an effort to raise money for a local zoo. However a hippo was later donated to that facility.

REBUS

Something familiar is represented in the image below. Do you know what it is?

REBUS IMAGE

THE LETTER SHUFFLE

How many new words can you make out the letters in CHRISTMAS?

We’ll reveal all next weekend but for now, let’s open up THE ANSWERS BOX🎁 and discover the results from the December 13, 2025 Puzzle Corner.

HOLIDAY SPECIAL QUIZ

There have been a lot of Christmas specials over the years. Many produced by the Rankin-Bass Studio.

Can you match the Narrating Host to their classic Rankin-Bass holiday special?

Note: Since not every narrator was actually a character within the story, some of them either appeared as "themselves" or did not actually appear on screen at all.

THE NARRATORS

a. Fred Astaire

b. Shirley Booth

c. Jimmy Durante

d. Greer Garson

e. George Gobel

f. Andy Griffith

g. Buddy Hackett

h. Burl Ives

i. Roger Miller

j. Red Skelton

k. Jonathan Winters

THE SPECIALS

01. Frosty The Snowman⛄ (1969)

02. Frosty Returns (1992)

03. Frosty's Winter Wonderland (1976)

04. The Little Drummer🥁 Boy (1968)

05. Jack Frost (1979)

06. Nestor, the Long Eared Christmas Donkey🫏 (1977)

07. Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer🦌 (1964)

08. Rudolph's Shiny New Year (1976)

09. Santa Claus🎅 Is Coming To Town (1970)

10. Twas The Night Before Christmas (1974)

11. The Year Without A Santa Claus (1974)

THE MATCHES

Jimmy Durante was the unnamed host of Frosty The Snowman.⛄ (C-1)

Jonathan Winters was the unnamed narrator of Frosty Returns. (K-2)

An otherwise unidentified Andy Griffith escorted us through Frosty's Winter Wonderland. (F-3)

Greer Garson narrated The Little Drummer🥁 Boy off screen. (D-4)

George Gobel as Father Mouse told the main story, but Joel Grey recited Twas The Night Before Christmas. (E-10)

Buddy Hackett as Pardon-Me-Pete the Groundhog told the story of Jack Frost. (G-5)

Roger Miller as Spieltoe, a donkey belonging to Santa Claus, told the story of Nestor, the Long Earred Christmas Donkey.🫏 (I-6)

Burl Ives as Sam the Snowman related the story of Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer.🦌 (H-7)

Red Skelton as Father Time told us of Rudolph's Shiny New Year. (J-8)

Fred Astaire portrayed S(pecial) D(elivery) Kluger, a busy postman, because 🎅 Santa Claus Is Coming To Town. (A-9)

And Shirley Booth as Mrs. Claus told the story of The Year Without A Santa Claus.

SUNDAY FUNNIES: THE 2020 OFFICE PARTY! (Christmas jokes)

Autumn, out in the field

Hello Everybody! Autumn the Puppy here!

Because of current events 😷, through the magic of the Internet we've got the whole gang here today via different telecoms.

So without further adieu may I present my co-hostess Piper D. Katt and our esteemed Editor-In-Chief Lee Houston, Junior as we sit in front of our respective computers and tell Christmas jokes. Ready?

Piper's 1st E-zine Christmas!

Yes, I'll say we are.

OKAY! Let's do this!

When he's not wearing his red suit, does Santa🎅 keep his uniform in the Claus-et?

Shouldn't that be CLAWS-et?

What do pirates say to Santa when they see him?

YO HO HO HO!

Is Santa rich because he invests in the stockings market?

Well, he's got to make money somehow. He only works one day a year.

Is it true there is only one fruitcake in the world and it's been in circulation since first baked?

I don't know about that, but it'd be WAY too easy to go political with this joke, so moving on...

A 4-year-old boy gave his dad a handmade card for Father’s Day. The guy seriously considered only

drawing the kid a picture of some toys for Christmas until his wife talked him out of it.

Good for her!

Yeah. What kind of joke is that, anyway?

Better than going back to the political fruitcakes. Moving on...

How come all we ever sing are Christmas Carols? What about Jill? And Lisa? And—

What do you call coffee loving reindeer?🦌

Star bucks!

I love Frosty the Snowman.⛄ He's so cool!

And on that note♫ everybody, please have a great week.

We know you may not get to physically travel to see your loved ones, but there's always Skype or Zoom!

Take Care.

STAY SAFE!😷

And please be back with us next weekend for more Sunday Funnies!

AtP, PDK, lhjr.

SUNDAY FUNNIES: CELEBRITY CHRISTMAS CITINGS (Christmas themed celebrity quotes)

Hello Everybody! Autumn the Puppy here.
Yes, that's an old, but appropriate picture of me, because thankfully we've yet to receive any snow in my neck of the woods, despite it being that time of year.
I've yet to do any celebrity quotes  of late, so let's see what they think of the holidays...

"Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful."—Author Norman Vincent Peale.
Considering some of the headlines of late, that's a very nice thought sir.

"Christmas is the spirit of giving without a thought of getting. It is happiness because we see joy in people. It is forgetting self and finding time for others. It is discarding the meaningless and stressing the true values."—Thomas S. Monson.
A beautiful thought, but most retailers have other ideas, I'm afraid.

"I love the excitement, the childlike spirit of innocence and just about everything that goes along with Christmas."—Singer Hillary Scott of Lady Antebellum.
"It's the most wonderful time of the year!"—Singer Andy Williams.
That it is, no matter how much they try to commercialize it!

"He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree."—Roy L. Smith.
"When there's that forgiveness present and compassion, it just helps you give so much easier."—Actor Craig T. Nelson.
True. I even bought a present this year for my rotten brother, who always digs up my bones whenever he visits, no matter how well I bury them!

"Before we took down the tree each year, Dad would always say a prayer that we would be together the next Christmas. I cling to that prayer, which serves as a reminder that it's important to be grateful in the present for the people you love because, well, you never know."—Actress Catherine Hicks.

Well... he is family.

"Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone else."—Peanuts creator Charles M. Schulz.
"No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another."—Famous author Charles Dickens, from A Christmas Carol.
Despite how much he ruffles my fur, I do love my brother. After all, we have the same parents.

"Every gift which is given, even though it be small, is in reality great, if it is given with affection."—Pindar, lyric poet of ancient Greece.
Good! So he won't object to the new flea collar I got him.


Folks, no matter how many jokes we tell in the course of this column or whatever happens this holiday season, please remember to be kind and love one another. After all... regardless of your personal beliefs, we are ALL members of the family of mankind!—AtP.

The Sunday Funnies will return next weekend. Take care everyone!

THE PUZZLE CORNER: DECEMBER 20, 2014

FUN FACT
Despite the fact that most businesses already close on December 25th, Christmas didn't officially become a Federal holiday in the United States until June 1970!

TRIVIA TIME
If you've been following The Puzzle Corner this holiday season, you know there are 4 animated specials that have been continuously shown on TV annually since their debut.
Besides listing what the 4 are, can you also name the year each one debuted?

FAMOUS FIRSTS
Although it unfortunately hasn't gained the renown of the quartet above, there is one animated TV special that debuted before all the others. Do you know when and what it is?

We'll reveal all next weekend.
Now, let's open the festive holiday ANSWERS BOX and discover the results from the December 13th, 2014 Puzzle Corner.

TRIVIA TIME
What does "Mele Kalikimaha" mean in English?
That is the closest Hawaiian translation for Merry Christmas, as first sung by Bing Crosby and the Andrew Sisters in 1950.

Video courtesy of YouTube.

REBUS
We've decorated The Puzzle Corner Christmas Tree for the season, but something is missing. Or is it?

There is No L for Noel.


We'll be back next weekend. In the meantime, keep your wits sharp and MERRY CHRISTMAS!