It's official. I now want to beat up the Little Drummer Boy

[eileen from OH]

One rum-pum-pum over the line, sweet Jesus.

eileen from OH

[POed_Ex_Repub]

1. Wild guess..

Been xmas shopping have we? :crazy:

[LastKnight]

2. just listen to...

the jimi hendrix version, nothing better to celebrate the birth of man's savior than jimi's wah'd fuzz feeding back through a marshall stack. merry xmas. hendrix's xmas music is the only thing that can put me in a 'xmas spirit' otherwise im pissed off by comercialisim.

long story

-LK

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

3. Have a violent holiday season!

:D

[eileen from OH]

6. No, no, don't misunderstand me. . .

I'm willing to cut Rudolph some slack, because of being dissed on the whole reindeer game gig and all.

And I'll even give a pass to the idiots who yell out "let it snow" during sex. (Yeah, that and "who's your daddy?" always works for me.)

I'll even chill on the nosy brats who can't let their sex-starved mother get some tongue from Santa under the mistletoe. (Geez, it's once a fucking year. Give her a goddam break.)

But that drummer bastard is goin' down, man.

eileen from OH

[MercutioATC]

7. Wow! a cornucopia of X-mas issues here!

But I'm behind you 100%! Fuck that little drummer boy.

:evilgrin:

[LastKnight]

8. is that you micheal?

isnt it past lights out at neverland? i know its a bad song but isnt sodomizing the drummer boy a bit much?

lol just kiddin there...

-LK

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

9. I say pop a couple caps in his rump-a pum pum

:evilgrin:

[0rganism]

4. Sometimes I wonder...

Is this whole overplay-the-carols-in-commercial-settings schtick designed to sour people on Christianity?

One year, I was paying my rent by working at a Prints Plus shop in a mall, and let me tell you: by the time I got off work at night, it was all I could do to not rip down the holiday decorations, burn the Christmas trees, and fling feces at the bell-ringers. Jesus was not making any birthday buddies. Few things are as poisonous as being around a 40-minute tape loop of popped-up christmas carols for an overtime shift.

And it was the same for everyone in the store, including the customers. NO ONE LIKED THE FUCKING MUSIC, all were annoyed to some degree, but company policy was to blast that shit at top volume throughout December. It's like mind rape. After about three times through the tape, no original thought is possible, and sheer desparation sets in. Chinese Water Torture doesn't hold a candle to having "Here Comes Santa Claus" drilled into your skull like a mantra.

The only reprieve we had was working the shop, framing prints and doing inventory, because it was permitted to wear a walkman at such times. But you can't run the register or work the storefront that way.

[gmoney]

5. Hated that song even as a kid...

Little Drummer Brat is the "Scrappy Doo" of Christmas songs.

It always seemed like a "fake" Christmas carol. Or more fake than the rest. I guess that it's usually performed with a phony piety as if it's not just a novelty song. Inserting a new character/storyline into the most sacred event of the faith is wrong on so many levels.

"Silent Night" was the only one that seemed appropriately reverent.

Stuff like "Jingle Bell Rock" or "Blue Christmas" at least don't pretend to be part of some grander religious tradition. They're just songs about stuff happening at Christmastime.

I really liked "Silver Bells" as a song, until it occurred to me that it's all about shopping.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

10. My hate for that song knows no bounds, and grows every year

What a pox on the Christmas mythology.