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621 – It’s a date
Dec03
Hey Readers,
Congratulations to those of you who took home spots on the XXXmas Party YCH!
Looks like our little mouse is tied up in knots waiting impatiently for the day to end and the night to begin. Then again also looks like Ceylon may be a little to sure of her abilities. We’ll have to wait and see!
This weeks ask the cast from KatneySK — Bella, what’s the one Christmas song that you want to avoid hearing the most? I’m sure…. most of you feel the same..
Till next week,
~Cheetah out
Bella, I am with you. *Brings more darts to throw*
I survived Wham-A-Geddon last year, but now that I’ve retired, it may be more difficult this year – so far so good! And, yeah – “All I Want for Christmas” should be followed by “my two front teeth.” also not fond of Springsteen’s Santa Claus is Coming to Town. Gimme the old classics any day! (looking for the old Bing Crosby records now).
I’m thankful that I haven’t heard “All I want for Christmas…” all the way through. I’m really getting into the Straight No Chaser Christmas songs. “Christmas Can Can” and “The 12 Days of Christmas” are my favorites.
Oh, I don’t know… The songs aren’t that bad to me. Beauty is in the ear of the beholder. Personally I am with omega; I am a great fan of the old Groaner.
That said, I’m also a fan of tongue-in-cheek songs and the sarcastic, cynical look at Christmas and commercialism. Jimmy Buffett’s ho ho ho and a bottle of rum_ comes to mind. 😁
But tonight I offer you a brilliant mathematician, a Harvard professor and the author of much music that went underappreciated in its day. Ladies and gentlemen I give you Tom Lehrer -his music, his piano, and his so-called voice! https://youtu.be/io4tepRYnXg
🎼🎶Christmas time is here, by golly
Disapproval would be folly
Deck the halls with hunks of holly
Fill the cup and don’t say when
Kill the turkeys, ducks, and chickens
Mix the punch, drag out the Dickens
Even though the prospect sickens
Brother, here we go again
On Christmas Day you can’t get sore
Your fellow man you must adore
There’s time to rob him all the more
The other three hundred and sixty-four
Relations, sparing no expense, ‘ll
Send some useless old utensil
Or a matching pen and pencil
“Just the thing I need, how nice!”
It doesn’t matter how sincere it is
Nor how heart felt the spirit
Sentiment will not endear it
What’s important is the price
Hark, the Herald Tribune sings
Advertising wondrous things
God rest ye merry merchants
May ye make the Yuletide pay
Angels we have heard on high
Tell us to go out and – buy!
So let the raucous sleighbells jingle
Hail our dear old friend Kriss Kringle
Driving his reindeer across the sky
Don’t stand underneath when they fly by!🎵