Least Popular Christmas Present
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From the University of Chicago Press, Religion and Postmodernism Series:
The Gift of Death, |
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Russell Berrie, toy maker, dies on Christmas Day. (AP photo) |
See also my note "Last-Minute Shopping"
of December 20, 2002, and my note
"An AntiChristmas Present" of June 25, 2002.
On the bright side: Berrie joins comedians
W. C. Fields and Charlie Chaplin,
who also died on Christmas Day.
"Dying is easy; comedy is hard."
— Unknown source.
See my note on Santa's last words.