[CatherineofAragon]

I don't know if it's a regional thing, but to us, tinsel is the foil garland, and the silvery, shimmery strips we used to put on the branches were called icicles.

One year,when I was a kid, we found the cat scooting across the floor, trying to get an icicle out of his behind. He had ingested it and it wouldn't pass. That was the end of icicles on our Christmas tree.

[Slings and Arrows]

Poor baby! (Yeah, I’m giggling too, but after the fact.)

[Jack Hydrazine]