Hi, Mitch -- welcome to the Internet! Here's a tool you might find helpful, it's called a 'Search Engine'! ;) A quick google for a few bytes worth of shellcode returned a few pages of jinglebellz.c related discussion. http://www.jikos.cz/jikos/dev/shcode.asm for example.
They're obviously in on it too.
Between you and me Mitch, it's clearly a Communist plot to sap and impurify our bodily fluids.
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