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December 24, 2025 (Gregorian calendar/Day 357)
Wednesday, 15 Tahsas 2018 (Ethiopian calendar/4th month)
Pagrīym (Pagrim) םירגפ 1 (Enochian calendar/10th month/Corpses of plants)
December 22, 2025 (International Fixed calendar)
Rhythmic Moon 6, Alpha 12 (13 Moon calendar/waxing crescent moon)
~ Rhythmic Lizard Moon of Equality, December 13th – January 9th
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Christmas Eve, Last Minute Shoppers Day

I want a hippopotamus for Christmas
~ the Ed Sullivan show ~

Gayla Peevey “I Want A Hippopotamus For Christmas” on The Ed Sullivan Show, October 18, 1953.

“The Ed Sullivan Show was a television variety program that aired on CBS from 1948-1971. For 23 years it aired every Sunday night and played host to the world’s greatest talents. The Ed Sullivan Show is well known for bringing rock n’ roll music to the forefront of American culture through acts like Elvis Presley, The Beatles, and The Rolling Stones. The entertainers each week ranged from comedians like Joan Rivers and Rodney Dangerfield, to Broadway stars Julie Andrews and Richard Burton, to pop singers such as Bobby Darin and Petula Clark. It also frequently featured stars of Motown such as The Supremes, The Temptations, Stevie Wonder and The Jackson 5. The Ed Sullivan Show was one of the only places on American television where such a wide variety of popular culture was showcased and its legacy lives on to this day.”
(The Ed Sullivan Show)

lyrics:

I want a hippopotamus for Christmas
Only a hippopotamus will do
Don’t want a doll
No donkey tinker toy
I want a hippopotamus to play with and enjoy

I want a hippopotamus for Christmas
I don’t think Santa Claus will mind, do you
He won’t have to use
A dirty chimney flue
Just bring him through the front door
That’s the easy thing to do

I can see me now on Christmas morning
Creeping down the stairs
Oh, a joy and what surprise
When I open up my eyes
To see a hippo hero standing there

I want a hippopotamus for Christmas
And only a hippopotamus will do
No crocodiles
No rhinoceroses
I only like hippopotamuses
And hippopotamuses like me too, swing it

My mom says a hippo would eat me up but then
Teacher says a hippo is a vegetarian

There’s lots of room for him
In our two-car garage
I’d feed him there
And wash him there
And give him his massage

I can see me now on Christmas morning
Creeping down the stairs
Oh, a joy and what surprise
When I open up my eyes
To see a hippo hero standing there

I want a hippopotamus for Christmas
Only a hippopotamus will do
No crocodiles
Or rhinoceroses
I only like hippopotamuses
And hippopotamuses like me too

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