Quotulatiousness

December 9, 2011

“An ‘American tradition’ is anything that happened to a baby boomer twice”

Filed under: Humour, Media, Randomness — Tags: , , — Nicholas @ 08:30

Hard to refute the latest xkcd take on Christmas music:

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2 Comments

  1. Is it just me, or are Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas, I’ll Be Home For Christmas, and White Christmas three of the most depressing songs of all time?

    Few people know the parenthetical parts of the song titles:

    Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas (While I Starve To Death in a Japanese POW Camp

    I’ll Be Home For Christmas (In a Box)

    White Christmas (At Home, But Blood Red and Gangrene Green For Us On The Front)

    Listening to my parents’ early-1960s-era recordings of these songs used to creep me out. As a young child, I had no idea why. When I came to realise the context in which these songs became popular, I had my answer.

    Comment by Lickmuffin — December 12, 2011 @ 14:37

  2. Wow. Someone woke up on the morbid side of the bed this morning.

    Comment by Nicholas — December 12, 2011 @ 15:09

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