# It was Christmas Eve, Babe **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 25, 2018, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-christmas-eve-babe/826658 "2018-12-25T01:04:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Ecks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bcef8e/32.png) [@Johnny\_Ecks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Ecks)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2018, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-christmas-eve-babe/826658/1 "2018-12-25T01:04:20Z")
In the drunk tank ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2018, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-christmas-eve-babe/826658/2 "2018-12-25T01:07:46Z")
You getting a good signal, man? ‘cause I got nothin’. ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2018, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-christmas-eve-babe/826658/3 "2018-12-25T01:10:56Z")
An old man said to me “Won’t see another one” ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2018, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-christmas-eve-babe/826658/4 "2018-12-25T02:10:38Z")
“I built my dreams around you” ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2018, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-christmas-eve-babe/826658/5 "2018-12-25T03:05:50Z")
And then he sang a song The Rare Old Mountain Dew ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2018, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-christmas-eve-babe/826658/6 "2018-12-25T03:10:20Z")
I turned my face away… ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2018, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-christmas-eve-babe/826658/7 "2018-12-25T04:41:41Z")
…And dreamed about you ---
**Author:** ![pseudograph](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pseudograph/32/19768_2.png) [@pseudograph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pseudograph)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2018, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-christmas-eve-babe/826658/8 "2018-12-25T04:45:45Z")
Got on a lucky one ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2018, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-christmas-eve-babe/826658/9 "2018-12-25T04:46:37Z")
Came in eighteen to one ---
**Author:** ![Mr\_Shine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr_shine/32/464_2.png) [@Mr\_Shine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr_Shine)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2018, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-christmas-eve-babe/826658/10 "2018-12-25T04:52:21Z")
Reported for Copyright as that’s the reason it was shut down last year. The real reason it ought to be is it’s so deeply stupid. ---
**Author:** ![Mr\_Shine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr_shine/32/464_2.png) [@Mr\_Shine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr_Shine)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2018, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-christmas-eve-babe/826658/11 "2018-12-25T04:54:43Z")
Came in eighteen to one … > **[The Pogues (Ft. Kirsty MacColl) – Fairytale of New York](https://genius.com/The-pogues-fairytale-of-new-york-lyrics)** > > The song took years to write, it was released in 1987. Now a Christmas Standard, it enters the UK Top Twenty every December. > > It’s about an Irish couple who emigrated to America … For Christmas day Song Over ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2018, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-christmas-eve-babe/826658/12 "2018-12-25T16:16:39Z")
[Moderating] Closed for the same reason as [last year](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=845545&highlight=Christmas). And it would have been closed quicker if I’d been online. **DrFidelius** and **Happy Lendervedder** , I note that you were involved in that one, as well, and should have remembered it. And **Mr Shine** , you’ve already made your opinion of this thread clear last year, in a set of posts you got Warned for. If this thread pops up again in future years, just report it, without adding your personal opinion. Heck, you don’t even need to post that you’re reporting it.