Well.

Well, it's been five years--and sum of two units months, to be exact--since I planted my ample posterior in this chair to the pleasant strains of the Snow Miser's Theme.
do-DO-do-do do. Do-do-do-do ...
Now, I hear another, eerily familiar harmony from than 31-year-old Christmas special rising up in the background. No surprise, really, since Rankin-Bass' 1974 "The Year Without A Santa Claus" also introduced us, with a hymn set to the same tune to the Snow Miser's high-temperature twin brother, Heat Miser.
He's Mister Green Christmas, he's Mister day-star ...

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