"Life is made up of meetings and partings. That is the way of it."
-- Kermit the Frog as Bob Cratchit in "The Muppet Christmas Carol" (1992)
The first Stocking Stuffer was scored on movie great Charlie Chaplin, and you will find many of the gamesters who scored still playing today. What an audience the Little Tramp drew: J. Batterson, Bubeenulis, D. Beach, Binky Brown, G. Conway, W. Dockum, Dopey, Donovan, L. Fuller, B. Hamilton, P. & E. Hepner, J. C. & E. Hoffmeier, R. Hunter, W. Krug, L. Lantz, D. McCarthy, Mort U. Airy, Mr. Clete, Mr. Debris, Mr. Goodvibes, D. Perriman Jr., D. Perriman Sr., B. Rounds, J. Schinto, J. Smoke, L. Smith, C. Tremper.
Ten decorative gamesters got surreal on painter Joan Miro. Donning beret and smock were: Bonedog, W. Dockum, Dupont Fluvius, D. Perry, D. Trageser, Ithaca Psychics, M. Hamilton, Pontius, Silver Tapps, Twinkie Defense.
Rumanian bad-boy leader Nicolae Ceausescu received the proverbial lump of coal from a firing squad as the Iron Curtain fell. The Merry Little Breezes, Perry Mason and the Sick Puppies scored.
Same day, Yankee legend Billy Martin died in a car crash, a passenger in a truck driven on icy roads by someone who'd had too much Christmas Cheer. Blunt Instrument, Deathwatch and Morituri te Salutamus fielded four points.
Present with drinks in their hands for his last concert were: Anubis, Bag of Dust, The Banshee, D. Beach, Body Parts, Boneyard Dog, Braindead, Breathless, Bury Pranksters, Club Dead, Daisy Pusher, Dead Guy, Death Warmed Over, Death's Doorstep, Demented Debutante, Demento Morte, Depopulators, W. Dockum, Dr. Tom(b), E. C. Spirit, Fade to Black, Flatliners, 40 Whacks, Frank Merriwell, Frozen Stiff, The Great Beyond, M. Hamilton, Harris Tweed, T. & J. James, I Mafiosi, Johnny B. Dead, Leroy Estmort, Lincoln's Brain, Lives in Jeopardy, Mac, Men of Steel, Mellow Gnomas,The Merry Little Breezes, Moorebids, Morituri te Salutamus, Mortis the Cat, Mr. Brink, Mr. Dit, Nanny's Dream Team, Necrophiliac Pimp, Nero Wolf, 911, Nostradumass, OPEC, Passing Fancy, Penguin, D. Perriman Jr., Persephone, Pine Boxer, Plug Pullers, Poker Club, Pontius, Pushing Up Prozac, Razor, Rig R. Mortis, Rosebud, Scorpio, The Sick Puppies, Skulls Away, SLY, L. Smith, Snakeyes, C. Stanley, Styx & Stones, The Surgin' General, Syd Lexic, Teen Angel, Toe Tag, Tomb Essence, Truck Savage, U 2 Brutus, Uncle Milton, Vega Ring, Wilde & Shaw, Winterkill, Women with Spurs, Worm Meat.
1997
December 25, Denver Pyle (3)
The first solo Stocking Stuffer, scored by The Great Beyond on this film and TV character actor.
1998
December 25, Mike McAlary (6)
The second solo Stocking Stuffer, six points for El Chileno on this Pulitzer Prize winning columnist.
2000
December 25, Joe Gilliam (6)
Boom, this former Pittsburgh Steelers QB had seen hard times, and his final completion was for six to Necrophiliac Pimp and Worm Feast.
The record for most Stocking Stuffers is held by W. Dockum, who has scored on three of these six hits.
2003
December 25, John Bissell Carroll (1)
Carroll, the noted psychologist, gave Final Curtain a nice solo as a present.
2006
December 25, James Brown (3)
Twenty Gamesters, too many to list for now, gave themselves the gift the keeps on giving (ok, it only gives once) and treated themselves to three points. Notably, it was the third Stocking Stuffer for Great Beyond.
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