# Now for something completely different!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-for-something-completely-different/11841>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [December 9, 1999, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-for-something-completely-different/11841 "1999-12-09T04:31:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![Homer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/df788c/32.png) [@Homer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homer)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 1999, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-for-something-completely-different/11841/1 "1999-12-09T04:31:00Z")

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I don’t know about the rest of you, but “Christmas in Sarajevo” by the Trans-Siberian Orchestra has to be the best Christmas song ever. The radio stations around here play it about twice a day around Christmastime, and it’s great.

Anyone else heard this gem?

Not being sarcastic, either.

–Tim

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We are the children of the Eighties. We are not the first “lost generation” nor today’s lost generation; in fact, we think we know just where we stand - or are discovering it as we speak.

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**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 1999, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-for-something-completely-different/11841/2 "1999-12-09T04:42:00Z")

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Weird Al- Christmas at Ground Zero  
“It’s Christmas at Ground Zero  
We’re dancin’ in the snow  
You can duck and cover  
With your Yuletide lover  
Underneath the mistletoe”  
I think Weird Al has a real problem w/Christmas. Consider this, and “The Night Santa went crazy,” where Santa goes bezerk (sp?) and slaughters all the reindeer. On teh album, he gets arrested “out w/good behavior in 700 more years” and on a single, he gets shot by the FBI. Funny stuff.

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JMcC, San Francisco, [JJM’s page from the Bay](http://members.tripod.com/~weirdstuff/index.html)  
If I were a baseball player, and I got beaned by a fastball, I wouldn’t want medical attention. I’d want my limp, lifeless body flung to 1st, cause, dammit, I earned it!

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**Author:** ![Zyada](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zyada/32/3028_2.png) [@Zyada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyada)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 1999, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-for-something-completely-different/11841/3 "1999-12-09T05:03:00Z")

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Yes! see the favorite xmas carols thread.