Christmas songs
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Share the Christmas songs of your language. Ho Ho Ho here's mine!
http://kevin.bloody.wilson.com.au/Rm/HoHoFuckingHo.ram http://www.letssingit.com/?http://www.letssingit.com/monty-python-ho-ho-f-ho-fztswmm.html |
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| "Ding dong merrily on high".............. your door chimes when you live on the 21st floor? |
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My favorite is "Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer" by Elmo & Patsy.
There's also a song parody they play on a popular radio morning show where I live. It's sung by an angel on top of a Christmas tree, about how miserable her life is because she has a big branch stuck up her butt. |
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Christmas Carols
From one of today's UK newspapers: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2004/12/09/bmplay09.xml |
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| My favorite is, 'Fairy Tale of New York', by the Pogues. |
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Christmas is just around the corner so it's an excuse to be a wee bit lighthearted.
This post has a seasonal theme but more related to language than songs, but not
quite as you would expect.
I was watching the ITN TV news reports this morning and one item concerned turkeys, which have been voted "the ugliest of birds", especially the males with those droopy bits hanging down all over the place. I disagree personally, as I don't believe any bird is ugly. The TV reporter was at a turkey farm somewhere in England and was standing in the middle of literally hundreds of the birds. He then addressed them all, speaking in English, saying things like: "Do you lot like cranberry sauce?" or "Are you looking forward to Christmas?" The poor wee beasties just remained silent each time he spoke to them. Then he yelled at them in the closest he could get to turkey-speak, saying: "Gobble-gobbledy-gobble-gobble-gobbledy-gobble" etc... Immediately all the birds started doing the same, making one heck of a loud noise, seemingly quite excited. Then he reverted to speaking English and they all fell silent again. He repeated the whole process several times over and exactly the same thing happened again. It was so funny. Obviously the English language meant nothing to them, or maybe they did but did not wish to be reminded that in two weeks' time most, if not all, of them would be gracing the Christmas dinner tables all over the country. Even so, perhaps they understood more of his version of turkey-speak than he did himself which is why they got so animated and vocal each time he used it. I guess there is a lot of communicating with non-human creatures that we know nothing about. Well, this post does have a connection with language, doesn't it? Sort of. |
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>>I was watching the ITN TV news reports this morning and one item concerned turkeys,
which have been voted "the ugliest of birds",
The ugliest of birds? That award would have to go to the vulture. http://www.accutek.com/vulture/vulturepic.HTM |