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Dec 25, 2025 3:37 AM
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spinbutton3
Dickens had ghostwriters! TIL! Also I learned that my whole family and me may drop dead at any moment because my sister married a limey!
philipinoraven
There’s a great book called ‘Drood’, about Dickens and Wilkie Collin’s relationship and the Christmas stories play a small part in the story. It’s a fantastic read.
Tarmaccian
And today I’ve learned…
Not saying it’s necessarily something I needed to learn, but now I have.
bacononbacon
Now I want to read the chimes
circlebreaker
#10 I admire the pettiness of 1866's Mugby Junction in a way that's difficult to express (see also: The Melvins, a band named after a shit-ass manager that some of them used to work with and hated enough to make fun of for decades afterward).
xenjamin
Capitalism always be that way.
FermentTheRich3000
We do a public reading of a Christmas carol each December- costumes encouraged. We have enough readers now that I just do an intro about something related. Usually defining old English words or phrases. I am completely stealing this for next year and won't remember to give you credit. I'll probably credit 'random reddit post or something'. Thanks!
EarthDragon2189
I mean. Those aren't exactly "sequels."
KellyCrazyCatLadyinTraining
This is the type of thing I love to learn about and try to share with my family but… yeah…
drhobotron
[sticking to the theme] You married a foreigner and they disowned you?
dapeach666
"Chucky Dicks" killed me!
masterpainimeanbetty1
he murdered you on christmas?! that IS spooky!
MaverickTitan
Fascinating.
SophieClockwise
ThatOtherGirlYouKnow
TIL...
NorthernHalibut
TIL indeed…
TheFastpaws
Sounds like how early Hollywood tried to make actors crank out hundreds of films in a short span of time. The quality was always crap.
FermentTheRich3000
Frankenstein was like the 80th movie for Boris Karloff. The genre peaked with The Raven in 1963.
LathiArcanus
Lest we think Chuck got off scot-free - sometime during this period, he was afflicted with Hans Christian Andersen.
Spiffytown
I didn’t know Hans was Scottish
wadatahmydamie
Nah, he’s a Marmaduke