text: Ralphie is the name of the lead character in the movie "A Christmas Story", a film about a 10 year old boy who wants a Red Rover BB gun for Christmas, but everyone tells him "you'll shoot your eye out, kid!"  It's a great movie and I watch it every Christmas.  TBS runs a marathon every Christmas of the movie for 24 hours.  The time era is about 1940s in surburban Chicago.