CLAAAARK? It's time for seasonal clickbait lists, so you'll get "10 Creepy Santas Whose Laps We Want Nothing To Do With" and the like. (More unpleasant Santas here, by the way.) Mental Floss also has 27 facts about "National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation" that could have been molded into an essay, but it's easier to bulletpoint the facts and slap a number on it. This is my favorite:

The backlot can be toured here, and a website that lists all the movies shot at the individual houses can be found somewhere on the internet. Or so I assume. If I had the time I'd try to find it. Actually, I do have the time. I just don't care.

It's a funny movie, and compared to some modern comedies it seems almost leisurely and intimate. The name is peculiar, but accurate: it's based on a story that appeared in National Lampoon, but audiences at the time just figured "National Lampoon" meant "A good Chevy Chase movie," as opposed to the others.

It also had Brian Doyle-Murray, who always made you think of Jim Belushi, aka America's Backup Belushi.

VRRRMM Montana might raise the speed limit to 80 MPH. If you think think is too fast and unsafe, spend some time in the middle of the state on I-94, where the average speed sometimes is, well, 94.

Seventy is too slow if conditions are good and you know what you're doing. For fun sometimes if you have the kids along, and there's no one around, drop down to 55 and let them know what it was like in the dark ages. You feel as if you'd get there quicker if you slapped some stamps on the car and pulled up at a mailbox.

VotD Somehow, I think this was avoidable.

GO HERE NOW Best story of the day so far: the mystery of the cryptic rubber slabs washing up on the beaches of Europe. Not so much a mystery any more, thanks to the internet.