# It's Christmas Eve, Babe. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 25, 2013, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-christmas-eve-babe/677116 "2013-12-25T00:40:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Accidental\_Martyr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@Accidental\_Martyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Accidental_Martyr)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2013, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-christmas-eve-babe/677116/21 "2013-12-25T04:09:05Z")
Sinatra was swinging All the drunks they were singing ---
**Author:** ![dogbutler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dogbutler/32/428_2.png) [@dogbutler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dogbutler)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2013, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-christmas-eve-babe/677116/22 "2013-12-25T04:18:09Z")
We kissed on the corner Then danced through the night ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2013, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-christmas-eve-babe/677116/23 "2013-12-25T04:19:54Z")
And the boys from the NYPD choir were singing Galway Bay And the bells were ringing out for Christmas Day. ---
**Author:** ![dogbutler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dogbutler/32/428_2.png) [@dogbutler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dogbutler)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2013, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-christmas-eve-babe/677116/24 "2013-12-25T04:28:44Z")
You’re a bum You’re a punk ---
**Author:** ![Poysyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Poysyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poysyn)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2013, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-christmas-eve-babe/677116/25 "2013-12-25T04:37:57Z")
You’re an old slut on junk ---
**Author:** ![3trew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/3/13edae/32.png) [@3trew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/3trew)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2013, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-christmas-eve-babe/677116/26 "2013-12-25T04:41:03Z")
Lying there almost dead On a drip in that bed ---
**Author:** ![dogbutler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dogbutler/32/428_2.png) [@dogbutler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dogbutler)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2013, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-christmas-eve-babe/677116/27 "2013-12-25T04:45:48Z")
You scum bag You maggot ---
**Author:** ![Barking\_Dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Barking\_Dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barking_Dog)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2013, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-christmas-eve-babe/677116/28 "2013-12-25T04:56:12Z")
You cheap lousy faggot Merry christmas you arse I pray to god it’s our last ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2013, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-christmas-eve-babe/677116/29 "2013-12-25T05:05:53Z")
And the boys of the NYPD choir’s still singing Galway Bay And the bells were ringing out for Christmas Day. ---
**Author:** ![dogbutler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dogbutler/32/428_2.png) [@dogbutler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dogbutler)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2013, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-christmas-eve-babe/677116/30 "2013-12-25T05:14:29Z")
I could have been someone ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2013, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-christmas-eve-babe/677116/31 "2013-12-25T05:15:59Z")
instead I drank cheap rum; a cop stepped on my bunion and that just wasn’t no fun ---
**Author:** ![dogbutler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dogbutler/32/428_2.png) [@dogbutler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dogbutler)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2013, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-christmas-eve-babe/677116/32 "2013-12-25T05:32:40Z")
[del] > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > instead I drank cheap rum; > a cop stepped on my bunion > and that just wasn’t no fun [/del] Well, so could anyone… 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Poysyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Poysyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poysyn)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2013, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-christmas-eve-babe/677116/33 "2013-12-25T05:37:21Z")
You took my dreams from me. When I first found you. ---
**Author:** ![Accidental\_Martyr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@Accidental\_Martyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Accidental_Martyr)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2013, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-christmas-eve-babe/677116/34 "2013-12-25T05:43:01Z")
I kept them with me babe I put them with my own ---
**Author:** ![dogbutler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dogbutler/32/428_2.png) [@dogbutler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dogbutler)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2013, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-christmas-eve-babe/677116/35 "2013-12-25T05:45:58Z")
Can’t make it all alone I’ve built my dreams around you ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2013, 7:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-christmas-eve-babe/677116/36 "2013-12-25T07:28:03Z")
And the boys of the NYPD choir’s still singing Galway Bay And the bells are ringing out for Christmas Day. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2013, 10:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-christmas-eve-babe/677116/37 "2013-12-25T10:52:42Z")
> [@Oredigger77](#): > > In the drunk tank Say, are you someone’s mother? And was he drunk the day you got out of prison? If so, beware of that damned ol’ train, 'cause he’s on his way to pick you up in his pickup in the rain. ---
**Author:** ![Accidental\_Martyr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@Accidental\_Martyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Accidental_Martyr)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2013, 11:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-christmas-eve-babe/677116/38 "2013-12-25T11:00:22Z")
[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/j9jbdgZidu8/maxresdefault.jpg "The Pogues - Fairytale Of New York (Official Video)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9jbdgZidu8) (R.I.P. Kirsty MacColl) ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2013, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-christmas-eve-babe/677116/39 "2013-12-25T13:53:58Z")
Happy birthday, Shane MacGowan! ---
**Author:** ![orderfire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/orderfire/32/10908_2.png) [@orderfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/orderfire)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2013, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-christmas-eve-babe/677116/40 "2013-12-27T14:56:12Z")
When I watched the video on YouTube, I found their choice of pre-vid commercial quite ironically hilarious: some kind of magical electric toothbrush. Happy birthday, Shane, indeed. 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-christmas-eve-babe/677116.md?page=1)