Christmas in Killarney - Given the average December temperature in County Kerry, why is the door always open?
(We used to sing “The door is always open, / The robbers pay a call…”)
Especially if he’s that bastard in the Rankin-Bass Rudolph. I watched that when I was 6 or 7, and after Evil Santa bullies Rudolph a few times, I turned to my parents and said “goyisher kop.” I had no idea what it meant-- I just knew it was an insult, but damn, did it make my parents laugh!
No worries-- he probably really did invite her up to see his etchings.
He’s looking to pick up extra cash around the holiday?
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Winter Wonderland
Why on Earth would Parson Brown be at all interested in whether or not two children/teens are married? Unless they’re really laying it on with the PDA or something, which, did that happen in the 1930s?
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I always imagined the song being about a young WWII-era couple in their 20, something like the couple in the third black and white photo on this page, but in a more rustic setting. Their making a snowman to caricature Parson Brown and his curiosity as to whether they’re married is probably a light-hearted take on the same social mores about couples dating that informed “Baby, It’s Cold Outside.”
You’d be pissed, too, if some asshole convinced you to trade a new bedroom set and all you got was a goat.
Let’s not forget the classic “Grandma got run over by a reindeer”
Just so disturbing.
…I’m seeing a video on how to reprogram a car remote.
That aired in the Pittsburgh area, too.
What makes you think they’re teens?
OK, here’s another one: In “I’ll Be Home for Christmas”, why presents on the tree? Who does that? Especially since the perfectly reasonable “under” would scan better in the song, anyway.
That dratted YouTube link! For some reason no matter what I send, it ends up being that keyfob video. I sent a clip from the Muppet Show with Miss Piggy singing to Nureyev in a steam room.
This is a great thread, and this really doesn’t fit here, but I saw it earlier, and it made me laugh. Mariah Carey singing, I Don’t Want A lot for Christmas, and then singing “All I want for Christmas is you.” That’s such a burn.
Its years on but we never got any answers -
- Did they open up her presents or send them back?
- Did the po-po gather enough evidence to bring charges for hit & run.
- How’s Grandpa now? Still mourning? Dating? Remarried?
We’re recording tonight, so we have to leave that verse out. You can probably guess though.
Mary nodded
pa rum pa pa pum
It was a secret sign
pa rum pa pa pum
So Joseph took me from the barn
pa rum pa pa pum
To lead me out behind
pa rum pa pa pa pum, rum pa pa pum, rum pa pa pum
And fed me my drum
Winter Wonderland- Later on, we’ll conspire… about what? Are you planning a crime? Of course, it’s just a lazy rhyme for fire.
We Three Kings- How do you follow a star? In the northern hemisphere, only Polaris appears in one position where you could use it as a direction to travel towards. Stars, planets, and comets would all appear to rise and set as the earth rotates so at what point at night do you head toward the star and at what point do you know to stop traveling?
My rewrite of the final verse (fill in the pah-rumpa-pums yourself. My thumbs are tired)
Mary nodded
It was a secret sign
Then Joseph took my arm
He led me from the barn
- ** * *, ** * *, ** * *
Then he smiled at me
And fed me my drum
(right up my bum)
Also, I can picture the mighty king saying “what do you mean, let us bring him silver and gold? You got any silver and gold on ya?
“Tell you what, why don’t you sell me that talking lamb for some silver and gold, then you can bring it to him yourself. ‘Cuz you’re right about my palace being warm, and going out in the cold to see a baby? I’m just not feeling it.”
I always sing it as A doll that’ll talk and’ll go for a walk/is the hope of Janice and Ken.
And mom and dad are looking into therapy for Ken
The alternative version makes even more sense in the cold winter weather; just staying warm & comfy, yanno -
Walking in our winter underwear
And they’re conspiring to follow through with their plans. So what were the plans themselves, then? Lazy lyrics all the way down.
Maps and written directions don’t move, either, but people have no problems following those. You read the astrological significance of the star (or arrangement of stars), and deduce the location from that.
Well, we can be pretty sure that was Hide ‘N’ Seek… with the unicorns absolute masters of the game.
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Could be worse, like Myrrh…
How about “Later on, we’ll perspire, cause we put one two many logs on the fire.”
My guess is they’re conspiring to do a bit of premarital hanky panky. Parson Brown will marry them when he’s in town. They’ll get in the mood by the fire so they can get over their fear of sinful sex outside of marriage.
Did the girl ever get her hippopotamus? If she did, did it bite her in half?