The annual Yuletide PSA from the FBI

Transcribed verbatim from the FBI.gov website:

( Suspect was last seen wearing a bright red winter suit with white fur trim... )

Has Lucasfilm's licensing department finally gone too far?

From Gizmodo.com: Just in time for the Comic Book Guy on your holiday gift list—electric Star Wars bathtub rubber duckies! That actually swim!
Luke Duckwalker, Princess Layer, and look over there—it's Pondtrooper!

Apropos of the ongoing TV writers' strike

Courtesy of QuotationsPage.com's Quotes of the Day, from the late radio comedian Fred Allen:

You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.

This would have been the same Fred Allen who more famously said, "Imitation is the sincerest form of television." Of course, this could have been partly sour grapes on his part about his medium's being eclipsed as the primary form of home entertainment...but alas, we shall never know.

Another great gift idea for the holidays(?)

With thanks to my old pal redaxe for the tip: Here's something to blow away all those relatives and friends who propose playing tired old board games like Monopoly® or Scrabble© over the holidays:
Vatican: The Board Game