War on Christmas - 2012 edition

Discussion in 'Politics & Current Events' started by cleansheetbsc, Nov 20, 2012.

  1. Barbara

    Barbara BigSoccer Supporter

    Apr 29, 2000
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Little kids singing almost anything is awesome. Nothing will reduce me to a little puddle of tears faster than kids singing Christmas carols of any kind.
     
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  2. Barbara

    Barbara BigSoccer Supporter

    Apr 29, 2000
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    One of my favorite Christmas albums is Mojo Nixon & the Toadliquors Horny Holidays.

    The intro to this never fails to crack me up, even 20 years later.

    Happy birthday to you,
    You woodworking Jew...

     
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  3. That Phat Hat

    That Phat Hat Member+

    Nov 14, 2002
    Just Barely Outside the Beltway
    Club:
    Liverpool FC
    Nat'l Team:
    Japan
    Before there was South Park and before there was YouTube, people shared stuff via VHS, and this is what got shared:


    Seems apropos for this thread.
     
  4. bigredfutbol

    bigredfutbol Moderator
    Staff Member

    Sep 5, 2000
    Woodbridge, VA
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Fair enough. As far as why that particular bugs me so much, I think it's that kids don't need "cutesy" advice from adults on how be endearing. They do just fine without our help.

    PS My Mom was a grade school music teacher for years.
     
  5. Dead Fingers

    Dead Fingers Moderator
    Staff Member

    Jan 22, 2004
    St. Paul, Minnesota
    Club:
    Minnesota United FC


    The Devo way.
     
  6. DoctorD

    DoctorD Member+

    Sep 29, 2002
    MidAtlantic
    Club:
    Philadelphia Union
    Nat'l Team:
    United States


    The Weird Al Way
     
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  7. soccernutter

    soccernutter Moderator
    Staff Member

    Tottenham Hotspur
    Aug 22, 2001
    Near the mountains.
    Club:
    Tottenham Hotspur FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    First saw this in 1996. A friend from college got a copy sent to him from somebody at home (NYC) and showed it to me. I was on the floor. Seemed like most people on campus had it within the next 2 weeks.
     
  8. roadkit

    roadkit Greetings from the Fringe of Obscurity

    Jul 2, 2003
    Fornax Cluster
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    If you got up at the crack of ass this morning and went shopping, you are the spawn of the devil. :D
     
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  9. cleansheetbsc

    cleansheetbsc Member+

    Mar 17, 2004
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    --other--
    Meh, I got some Nike under layers for skiing (for me) at a good discount. Lucifer was out.
     
  10. TheSlipperyOne

    TheSlipperyOne Member+

    Feb 29, 2000
    Denver
    Club:
    Arsenal FC
    I always like the donuts afterwards.
     
  11. TheSlipperyOne

    TheSlipperyOne Member+

    Feb 29, 2000
    Denver
    Club:
    Arsenal FC
    What's really funny is that Adam Sandler is actually Iranian.
     
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  12. TheSlipperyOne

    TheSlipperyOne Member+

    Feb 29, 2000
    Denver
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    Arsenal FC
    I add "cha-cha-cha" to the end of every song.

    And she's buying a stairway to heaven...... Cha-cha-cha.
     
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  13. TheSlipperyOne

    TheSlipperyOne Member+

    Feb 29, 2000
    Denver
    Club:
    Arsenal FC
    Even with the fudge factor that's a 99% probability.
     
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  14. TheSlipperyOne

    TheSlipperyOne Member+

    Feb 29, 2000
    Denver
    Club:
    Arsenal FC
    Back in the dark ages of the internet I was the A&E editor for my college newspaper and I was able to find it on-line in 1997. The review I wrote was my most responded-to piece for the paper in my four years.
     
  15. Val1

    Val1 Member+

    Arsenal
    Mar 12, 2004
    MD's Eastern Shore
    Club:
    Arsenal FC
  16. Val1

    Val1 Member+

    Arsenal
    Mar 12, 2004
    MD's Eastern Shore
    Club:
    Arsenal FC
    I was kind of fortunate. We don't have TV, which means my kids never saw commercials telling them what they should want for Christmas. Their wish lists would be 2 or 3 things. And Grandad got the best item to give them, Aunt Amy second best, Santa got third pick, leaving me and their mother to give them their least desired presents.
     
  17. TeamUSA

    TeamUSA Member

    Nov 24, 1999
    Tianjin, China
    Club:
    Borussia Mönchengladbach
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Only thing that bothers me more than the music is that damn tinsel, as I too find it very distracting.
     
  18. Cascarino's Pizzeria

    Apr 29, 2001
    New Jersey, USA
    This song always annoyed me

     
  19. Val1

    Val1 Member+

    Arsenal
    Mar 12, 2004
    MD's Eastern Shore
    Club:
    Arsenal FC
    Unfortunately, irony is lost on my son.

    While he's never watched About a Boy, he loves Santa's Super Sleigh...

     
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  20. HerthaBerwyn

    HerthaBerwyn Member+

    May 24, 2003
    Chicago
    Back in my day...

     
  21. spejic

    spejic Cautionary example

    Mar 1, 1999
    San Rafael, CA
    Club:
    San Jose Earthquakes
    I always sing it the cutesy way, but I only use the line "like Monopoly". For example:

    Rudolph, the red-nosed reindeer
    had a very shiny nose.
    And if you ever saw him,
    you would even say it glows (Like Monopoly!)

    There are Advent-time songs awaiting Jesus and then Christmas songs celebrating the birth of Jesus, and you have after-Christmas stuff all the way through to Candlemas. One of my favorite Christmas-time hymns is "We Three Kings", which is about the wise men who came some time after Jesus was born and I believe is celebrated as part of Epiphany two weeks after Christmas.

    The original American War on Christmas was the Protestant war on all these Catholic holidays around this time. The weapon they used was pushing the consumerist elements of the holiday and turning it into a universal secularish holiday. They are now reaping what they sowed.
     
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  22. Barbara

    Barbara BigSoccer Supporter

    Apr 29, 2000
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    I used to know how to play "We Three Kings" and "God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen" on a recorder. My SO is traveling so I should dig out my recorder and torture the cat's ears for a little while.
     
  23. ratdog

    ratdog Member+

    Mar 22, 2004
    In the doghouse
    Club:
    Chicago Red Stars
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    [​IMG]
     
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  24. fatbastard

    fatbastard Member+

    Aug 1, 2003
    Lincoln (ish), Va
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    I am always going to wage war on people who claim this ages-old celebration time before a long winter was stolen from them, when in reality they stole it from many others to bogusly celebrate the birthday of some dude born about 4 or 5 months later than December.
     

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