# Good King Win--chechfllllkisss--ess?!?!##\*'':?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-king-win-chechfllllkisss-ess/1025917
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [December 21, 2025, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-king-win-chechfllllkisss-ess/1025917 "2025-12-21T18:07:27Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2025, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-king-win-chechfllllkisss-ess/1025917/1 "2025-12-21T18:07:28Z")
Who the heck?
What the heck?
It’s a catchy tune. Don’t have a clue or am not inclined to find out what the heck the story is. (Or proper spelling)
I don’t think I’ve ever heard it correctly.
Yep. Got the EARWORM!
The ear-wormiest of earworms! (day 3)
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### Author:  [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2025, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-king-win-chechfllllkisss-ess/1025917/2 "2025-12-21T18:41:12Z")
It’s a Feast of Stephen carol.
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### Author:  [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2025, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-king-win-chechfllllkisss-ess/1025917/3 "2025-12-21T18:44:50Z")
Mandatory xkcd:
[ ](https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/caroling.png)
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### Author:  [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2025, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-king-win-chechfllllkisss-ess/1025917/4 "2025-12-21T22:27:50Z")
Good King Wenceslaus was a Duke of Bohemia, Wenceslaus I, whose name in Czech is Vaclav, which is pronounced “VA-tslav,” because the letter C, without a diacritic, is pronounced “ts” in Czech. Wenceslaus is the Polish spelling, and it’s worth noting that “Czech” is also the Polish spelling of Czech. In Czech, it is “Čech.”
This Duke of Bohemia was posthumously promoted to king by the Holy Roman Emperor Otto I. King Vaclav was called “Vaclav the Good,” because he was both a generous, merciful ruler, and pious. However, I think “King” was just honorary, and Bohemia remained a duchy until the 1100s.
He was assassinated (by his brother) and considered therefore a martyr and was canonized. He is the patron saint of the Czech Republic, and Vaclav has since been a popular boys’ name, remaining so throughout the “Czechoslovak” Communist period, so that the last president of Czechoslovakia, and the first of the modern Czech Republic was named Vaclav Havel.
My mother spoke Czech and Slovak both fluently enough to be published in both languages. She met both Vaclav Havel and Bill Clinton at some event she was invited to, because it had something to do with Czechoslovakia, and she was a nationally-regarded expert on Czech, with the bonus of speaking Slovak as well.
This stuff was dinner table conversation.
Safe to say, the Good King never massacred anyone.
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### Author:  [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2025, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-king-win-chechfllllkisss-ess/1025917/5 "2025-12-21T22:30:04Z")
It is pronounced “ˈwo͝ostərSHər”.
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### Author:  [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2025, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-king-win-chechfllllkisss-ess/1025917/6 "2025-12-21T22:55:54Z")
Nice. 😅
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### Author:  [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2025, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-king-win-chechfllllkisss-ess/1025917/7 "2025-12-21T23:06:32Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#):
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> Wenceslaus is the Polish spelling
Which led to Señor Wences: _ **‘s all right**!_
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### Author:  [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2025, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-king-win-chechfllllkisss-ess/1025917/8 "2025-12-21T23:10:23Z")
“Good King What’s-His-Face”
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### Author:  [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2025, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-king-win-chechfllllkisss-ess/1025917/9 "2025-12-21T23:32:17Z")
Hither, Page, and stand by me
If thou knowst it, telling
Yonder peasant, who is he?
Where and whence his dwelling?
Sire he live a good league hence
Underneath the mountain
Up against the forest fence
By St Agnes Fountain
\*_from memory_
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### Author:  [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2025, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-king-win-chechfllllkisss-ess/1025917/10 "2025-12-21T23:51:45Z")
The catchy tune is Tempus adest floridum (The blooming time is here), a spring carol of the 13th century.
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### Author:  [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2025, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-king-win-chechfllllkisss-ess/1025917/11 "2025-12-21T23:57:48Z")
I have to say this thread is not curing the ear-worminess of the thing.
😀
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### Author:  [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2025, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-king-win-chechfllllkisss-ess/1025917/12 "2025-12-22T00:02:46Z")
How did Good King Wenceslas like his pizza cooked?
Deep and crisp and even.
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### Author:  [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2025, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-king-win-chechfllllkisss-ess/1025917/13 "2025-12-22T00:04:24Z")
Dangit, I was just about to post that!
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### Author:  [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2025, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-king-win-chechfllllkisss-ess/1025917/14 "2025-12-22T00:06:01Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#):
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> Good King Wenceslaus was a Duke of Bohemia, Wenceslaus I, whose name in Czech is Vaclav
Best known today for his Place of Automobiles.
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HPVQ4FpVlY)
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### Author:  [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2025, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-king-win-chechfllllkisss-ess/1025917/15 "2025-12-22T00:21:26Z")
Good King Winklehof looked out
On his feets uneven..
And while we’re at it:
Deck us all with Boston Charley
Walla Walla, Wash, an’ Kalamazoo
Nora’s freezing on the trolley
Swallar dollar cauliflower Alley-garoo.
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2025, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-king-win-chechfllllkisss-ess/1025917/16 "2025-12-22T00:24:19Z")
I have my own lyrics, since I don’t know the real ones. But they’re naughty, and probably not allowed here.
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### Author:  [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2025, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-king-win-chechfllllkisss-ess/1025917/17 "2025-12-22T00:26:30Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#):
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> Safe to say, the Good King never massacred anyone.
Never trust Black Hat Guy in XKCD.
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### Author:  [@Tatterdemalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tatterdemalion)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2025, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-king-win-chechfllllkisss-ess/1025917/18 "2025-12-22T00:34:24Z")
I went on line to check the “correct” lyrics, and this thread from 2005 is the first result from google.
> [@Pogo Christmas Carols](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pogo-christmas-carols/335070/6):
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> Lou, when you have to explain humor, it’s no longer funny. Kelly was a genius for his brilliant art work through the cartoon media, and his biting political satire. Satirizing Christmas Carols was not done in the 40s and 50s, he was a groundbreaker. And, he’s not just using nonsense words, he’s using real words (mostly) – at least in the first version: Walla Walla, Wash(ington) is a real city, as is Kalamazoo. “Nora’s freezing on the trolley” is scarcely gibberish. The song borders on the edge o…
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### Author:  [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2025, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-king-win-chechfllllkisss-ess/1025917/19 "2025-12-22T00:57:00Z")
Ah. You would know I’d be 20years late.
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### Author:  [@Tatterdemalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tatterdemalion)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2025, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-king-win-chechfllllkisss-ess/1025917/20 "2025-12-22T00:59:31Z")
There is nothing new under the sun.
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