Apparently miracles can happen.
Speaking of miracles, I had a song about them stuck in my head last night. It's the one from Christmas Eve on Sesame Street, "True Blue Miracle". Don't ask me how it got stuck there. The worst part was, I couldn't even figure out exactly
what was stuck in my head for about the first hour. There weren't even words, it was just a half-correct version of the tune combined with that smarmy sound that Gordon gets when he sings. It drove me nuts until I finally figured out what it was. Then I still couldn't remember any of the words. Eventually, after some serious mental aerobics, I remembered the first line:
"I believe in miracles, and I can tell you why."
Then a little while later, the song's punchline hit me:
"And if that isn't a true blue miracle, I don't know what one is."
But I couldn't remember anything else after that. Finally today I broke down and googled the lyrics.
The internet is truly a wealth of knowledge beyond anyone's imagination. I mean, I'm a child of the internet age, and yet even I sometimes forget that no matter what my question is, no matter who I ask, the answer is probably more quickly and readily and
exhaustively available online. An illustration:
When I googled the lyrics to "True Blue Miracle", not only did I find them in their entirety, but I also found out that what I had always thought of as "The 1993 Sesame Street Christmas Special" is actually a 1978 low-budget film called "Christmas Eve on Sesame Street". Granted, the only reason I thought it was 1993 is because it's on our family's series of VHS taped Christmas specials from that year. It never occurred to me that it could have been made a different year, because it was on
that year's tape, and who questions their childhood logic about such things?
Incidentally, my sisters and I still watch those tapes every year at Christmastime, if at all possible. It's become something of a ridiculous tradition. They're barely watchable now. I mean, they're over 15 years old! But still, Christmas doesn't quite feel like Christmas unless we watch hour after hour of ancient Christmas specials of the grainiest quality.
Anyway. Not only did I find out that the special/film is older than I thought, I also discovered the existence of
Muppet Wiki! I was amazed and thrilled. I mean, we're talking about the potential for endless hours of mindless clicking and poring. They have a "Random Muppet Character" feature, which you can just click and click and the fascination just goes on forever with characters like Minik Kus, a Turkish version of Big Bird, and Lenny the Lizard, who's sort of Kermit the Frog's sinister alter-ego.
Sigh. The genius of Jim Henson. Chronicled in exhaustive detail on a wikipage that has more than 19,000 articles. This, my friends, is the magic of the internet.
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