1. You don't recall that line from It's A Wonderful Life saying, "Every time a cash register rings, a customer enjoys never-before year-end savings at Try-N-Save!"
2. Your kid makes a fortune trading in "Elmo futures."
3. Salad Shooter in hand, Michael Jordan shows up as the honorary "4th wise man" in new nativity scenes.
4. The impossible-to-get "Tickle Me Jesus"
5. Santa's Coyote/Ford-powered sleigh came in second in this year's Indy 500.
6. Wise Men now arrive carrying Faux Gold, The Clapper and a Chia Pet.
7. WWF presents "Oh, Holy Night" Cage Match pitting The Three Wise Men against Jumping Joseph, Manic Mary and the Dangerous Manger Boy!
8. Santa goes to Yankees in blockbuster trade for the slightly heavier Cecil Fielder.
9. Rudolph demands Holiday Pay or he walks.
10. Santa's North Pole operation announces a corporate downsizing amidst rumors that the Elf Division will be sold off to Keebler.
11. Reindeer rights purchase by Disney results in odd-sounding, "On Doc, on Happy, on Grumpy, on Sneezy. Now Bashful, now Dopey, now Eisner and Sleepy."
12. $, the holiday formerly known as Christmas
13. Rather large Nike logo emblazoned across His Holiness's pointy hat during Midnight Mass at St. Peter's.
14. The Baby GAP's line of Swaddling Clothes(TM)
15. Michael Jackson buys all rights to the phrase "Ho, Ho, Ho" -- an injunction limits Santa to "a bemused facial expression and laughter not exceeding two syllables."
16. Image of Virgin Mary appears in Dennis Rodman's hair.
Attacks in Baghdad are down in recent weeks but still remain a deadly threat
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Bombs kill Shia pilgrims in Iraq
A series of bombings across Baghdad has killed at least 13 people, including six or more Shia pilgrims from Iran.
Five Iranians were killed by two bombs near a house used by pilgrims near an important Shia shrine in the city's Kadhimiya district, police said.
In the northern Shula district, a car bomb struck a coach of pilgrims, killing two people. Another car bomb elsewhere killed six people.
Correspondents say overall, attacks are down in Baghdad in recent weeks.
Police officials said more than 100 people were injured in the string of bombings.
The Kadhimiya district houses the Moussa al-Kadhim shrine, one of several Shia holy sites that attract hundreds of thousands of pilgrims, most of them Iranian, every year.
The pilgrims, as well as Iraq's Shia population, have been targeted in the past by insurgents in Iraq.
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