# You have the power to permanently eliminate any Christmas song... **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 25, 2010, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-have-the-power-to-permanently-eliminate-any-christmas-song/561836 "2010-11-25T00:46:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![StusBlues](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@StusBlues](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StusBlues)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2010, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-have-the-power-to-permanently-eliminate-any-christmas-song/561836/181 "2010-12-08T15:14:15Z")
I’d never heard of “The Christmas Shoes” until this thread. I have now listened to 37 seconds of it, and I think that’s enough. ---
**Author:** ![Dolly\_Madison](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3be4f8/32.png) [@Dolly\_Madison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dolly_Madison)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2010, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-have-the-power-to-permanently-eliminate-any-christmas-song/561836/182 "2010-12-08T18:39:00Z")
> [@drastic\_quench](#): > > Wonderful Christmastime by Paul McCartney > > Just for that fucking synthesizer. The story goes he just got it, and basically locked himself in a studio with that synth and big bag of weed. Wonderful Christmastime was the result. Drugs are bad, mmmmm’kay? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Dolly\_Madison](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3be4f8/32.png) [@Dolly\_Madison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dolly_Madison)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2010, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-have-the-power-to-permanently-eliminate-any-christmas-song/561836/183 "2010-12-08T18:43:12Z")
> [@elfkin477](#): > > Also known as “The Date Rape Christmas Song.” No really, google “date rape christmas” and see if you find anything besides references to this song. “Say, what’s in this drink?” 😛 Have a Roofies Christmas! ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2010, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-have-the-power-to-permanently-eliminate-any-christmas-song/561836/184 "2010-12-08T20:31:49Z")
> [@StusBlues](#): > > I’d never heard of “The Christmas Shoes” until this thread. I have now listened to 37 seconds of it, and I think that’s enough. My endurance is a whole 4 seconds stronger than yours. 😛 (what a wretched song) ---
**Author:** ![Ispolkom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e47774/32.png) [@Ispolkom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ispolkom)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2010, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-have-the-power-to-permanently-eliminate-any-christmas-song/561836/185 "2010-12-09T16:32:01Z")
> [@Wile\_E](#): > > I still have not heard the Shoes song Man, I wish I were you. I first heard this last Christmas. At the dentist. While having a filling replaced, so I could neither shut off the damn thing, or even tell someone to shut it off. Second worst Christmas memory ever. ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_A.Robrin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sam_a.robrin/32/14497_2.png) [@Sam\_A.Robrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_A.Robrin)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2010, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-have-the-power-to-permanently-eliminate-any-christmas-song/561836/186 "2010-12-09T18:19:19Z")
> [@Ispolkom](#): > > Man, I wish I were you. I first heard this last Christmas. At the dentist. While having a filling replaced, so I could neither shut off the damn thing, or even tell someone to shut it off. > > Second worst Christmas memory ever. So are you going to, uh, drop the other shoe…? ---
**Author:** ![xanthous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/53a042/32.png) [@xanthous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xanthous)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2010, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-have-the-power-to-permanently-eliminate-any-christmas-song/561836/187 "2010-12-09T19:23:00Z")
Didn’t have to think about it for one second: _I Wonder As I Wander._ When I was a kid and we had to go _suffer_ through the midnight Christmas Eve service, the same girl sang this same song every year and it seemed like it went on for EONS. I came to dread this part of the service and now I shkeeve when I hear it. Like, I will reject any Christmas CD that has the song on it. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2010, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-have-the-power-to-permanently-eliminate-any-christmas-song/561836/188 "2010-12-09T21:07:12Z")
You people have good intentions, but c’mon…nearly 200 posts in with but a single (overlooked) mention of the aural horror that is: [I Want a Hippopotamus For Christmas???](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwWZFlkSchg&feature=fvst) This tells me, quite simply, that y’all are not familiar with this song. Please, click the link. **DO NOT** exit before at least hearing that child’s smooth, wonderful instrument that is her voice. Then come back and tell me I’m wrong. mmm ---
**Author:** ![royboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f08c70/32.png) [@royboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/royboy)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2010, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-have-the-power-to-permanently-eliminate-any-christmas-song/561836/189 "2010-12-10T16:46:30Z")
> [@Simmerdown](#): > > Getting rid of “Deck the Halls” would eliminate 75% of annoying TV and Radio advertising this time of year. On the other hand, have you heard “Green Christmas” (aka “Deck the Halls With Advertising”, by the wish-he-had-been immortal, Stan Freberg? If not, check out \<[http://www.wepsite.de/Freberg,%20GREEN%20CHRI$TMA$.htm>](http://www.wepsite.de/Freberg,%20GREEN%20CHRI$TMA$.htm>)! ---
**Author:** ![Fair\_Rarity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fair_rarity/32/153_2.png) [@Fair\_Rarity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fair_Rarity)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2010, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-have-the-power-to-permanently-eliminate-any-christmas-song/561836/190 "2010-12-11T04:01:16Z")
At another place I read, someone sincerely posted how much she loved _Christmas Shoes_ and its movie. And misspelled her post. I died a little inside. (But I don’t want shoes as my last Christmas gift.) ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_A.Robrin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sam_a.robrin/32/14497_2.png) [@Sam\_A.Robrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_A.Robrin)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2010, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-have-the-power-to-permanently-eliminate-any-christmas-song/561836/191 "2010-12-11T04:35:34Z")
I had a sudden visit from the Ghost of Christmas Past, and he left me a memory of this: [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cXQpgHvZeo) It’s the same idea as “Christmas Shoes,” but without going overboard. ---
**Author:** ![Grfonola](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e480ec/32.png) [@Grfonola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grfonola)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2010, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-have-the-power-to-permanently-eliminate-any-christmas-song/561836/192 "2010-12-12T04:00:43Z")
> [@runner pat](#): > > It’s a horrible song that not even Ms. Kitt can make tolerable. I gather that you never saw her perform the number in “New Faces of 1954” then. ---
**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 21, 2010, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-have-the-power-to-permanently-eliminate-any-christmas-song/561836/193 "2010-12-21T03:41:02Z")
Few people would probably choose “Jingle Bells.” But the Thais keep singing _Jinger Ben_, and the cuteness of that wears off pretty darned quickly, I’ll clue ya. ---
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2010, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-have-the-power-to-permanently-eliminate-any-christmas-song/561836/194 "2010-12-21T06:56:42Z")
Beach Boys Christmas album. ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2010, 7:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-have-the-power-to-permanently-eliminate-any-christmas-song/561836/195 "2010-12-21T07:05:16Z")
> [@royboy](#): > > On the other hand, have you heard “Green Christmas” (aka “Deck the Halls With Advertising”, by the wish-he-had-been immortal, Stan Freberg? If not, check out \<[http://www.wepsite.de/Freberg,%20GREEN%20CHRI$TMA$.htm>](http://www.wepsite.de/Freberg,%20GREEN%20CHRI$TMA$.htm>)! Here’s[a better link.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSPGJ5-XAcM) ---
**Author:** ![Sleep\_Deprivation](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/65b543/32.png) [@Sleep\_Deprivation](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sleep_Deprivation)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2010, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-have-the-power-to-permanently-eliminate-any-christmas-song/561836/196 "2010-12-23T07:20:56Z")
Someone pass me the flamethrower. Frosty is going down! ---
**Author:** ![czarcaztic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ec9cab/32.png) [@czarcaztic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/czarcaztic)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2010, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-have-the-power-to-permanently-eliminate-any-christmas-song/561836/197 "2010-12-23T19:41:10Z")
“Last Christmas, I gave you my heart…” ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2010, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-have-the-power-to-permanently-eliminate-any-christmas-song/561836/198 "2010-12-23T20:05:19Z")
> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > You people have good intentions, but c’mon…nearly 200 posts in with but a single (overlooked) mention of the aural horror that is: > > [I Want a Hippopotamus For Christmas???](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwWZFlkSchg&feature=fvst) > > This tells me, quite simply, that y’all are not familiar with this song. That’s the only one that I really can’t stand that I’ve seen listed so far. Alvin whining about a hula hoop comes in a distant second. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-have-the-power-to-permanently-eliminate-any-christmas-song/561836.md?page=9)