Funny, my mother and I hasd a whole conversation over lunch yesterday about the NPR bit... Hee! (and she is much more militant about it than I am... We visited my grandfather and the TV was on and droning in the backgound and the Little Drummer Boy came on and she turned to us and said, "I almost got through the season without hearing that." she couldn't even turn it off as we were in the dayroom, and not in his room.)