The Christmas Thread

[classicgamer5]

A long time ago(ok not all that long ago), I used to work at Wal-Mart. During the Christmas season you sure will start to hate that damn music. The only one worth a damn is that Beatles song. I dont know the name of it, but it gets my vote as best Christmas song ever, probably because its The Beatles.

Indeed. I worked at K-Mart several years ago, in the sporting goods section. This meant I was right next to the seasonal section where the fake trees, lights, and effing musical lights went. Since the age of maybe 5, I've hated Christmas music because its the same 10 songs over and over. Heck and when I was little, Christmas creep didn't happen like it does now. So anyway, on top of the Christmas muzak coming out of the ceiling I got to listen to for a month while at this job, I got to listen to the cacophony of about 5 sets of musical light sets that usually only played about 5 songs each. Then one year there was this horrible Disney musical light set. It had about 8 character heads on the string, and each character made a note in its character voice. So Mickey made a C, Donald an A, Goofy a D, etc. All the rest of the cacophony was bad enough but holy shit that thing was intolerable for more than 5 seconds. It became a game of sneaking over and unplugging that set without being obvious in the camera that watched the register/hunting rifles and not being seen by a roaming manager. Inevitably within the hour or two a manager would notice and plug them back in again though.

That destroyed any remaining tolerance I had for Christmas music.

Yeah, I've never liked Christmas music. I hate when it gets mid-December and 9 out of 10 radio stations play it, constantly.

[Hobie-wan]

Oh just so I'm not just posting my bile against Christmas music...

I do love the movie, A Christmas Story. I can watch that repeatedly and not get sick of it.

[classicgamer5]

Oh just so I'm not just posting my bile against Christmas music...

I do love the movie, A Christmas Story. I can watch that repeatedly and not get sick of it.

I like the old claymation Christmas movies

[d123456]

Well here in the Netherlands, SinterKlaas with his slaves first has te leave on 5 december before we can even think about getting into the Christmas mood.

[black flag nc]

I work retail. I despise christmas.

[fingersmaloy]

well you can singDradle, dradle, dradle how I let you spin" Stole it from The Critic.
This is the only Chanukah I know.

Dreidle, DREIDLE.

I'm Catholic raised (Agnostic from a personal standpoint) but seeing the DRADLE misspelling always seems tick me off somehow.

Dradle spelled that way is slang. Thats the reason I used it. In the the show The Critic They do a spoof of Arnold playing a undercover rabbi and he sings a musical number. That is the song he sings being not jewish of course he would spell it wrong. That is suppose to be the humor of it.

First of all, the spelling is "dreidel". Second, the song Arnold sings in that bit in The Critic is an actual Chanukah song. Third, the lyric is "Oh dreidel, dreidel, dreidel, I made you (or it) out of clay. . ." And fourth, did you spell it that way because it's slang or because Arnold "spelled" it wrong when he sang it? And fifth, since when did people who don't know anything about Chanukah other than a bit they saw and vaguely remembered on a mid-90s TV show know anything about Yiddish slang? And sixth, how could Yiddish slang be an alternative spelling of the same word when Yiddish doesn't even use the roman alphabet?

Jewish mothers across the globe have fainted over this. Sorry to kvetch.

[Xonticus]

That's it, no more Christmahanukkwanzika stuff until after today.

[MrPopo]

I work for Amazon doing the software for our Fulfillment Centers, and we also do the support. So things get really hectic for us for the next four weeks. Then it complete dies December 25th. I'm talking about no one comes in to the office in my department from the 25th through the 1st without them needing to take vacation days dying. We all "work from home" during that time. It's a great time to get through my backlog.

[pepharytheworm]

First of all, the spelling is "dreidel". Second, the song Arnold sings in that bit in The Critic is an actual Chanukah song. Third, the lyric is "Oh dreidel, dreidel, dreidel, I made you (or it) out of clay. . ." And fourth, did you spell it that way because it's slang or because Arnold "spelled" it wrong when he sang it? And fifth, since when did people who don't know anything about Chanukah other than a bit they saw and vaguely remembered on a mid-90s TV show know anything about Yiddish slang? And sixth, how could Yiddish slang be an alternative spelling of the same word when Yiddish doesn't even use the roman alphabet?

Jewish mothers across the globe have fainted over this. Sorry to kvetch.

I have no idea if it's yiddish slang. http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.p ... erm=dradle. I was using american slang. Mrpopo made a snide remark I took as playful humor and I was retorting to him in the same way. How come he is not fussing about this and you are. What is wrong with people I was writing what I remember from seeing the show long ago and just trying to be funny back towards mrpopo. As he stated we are gentiles so what would it matter if we spelled wrong being that is what we are Arnold and myself.

[darthmunky]

I can't wait to watch all those old school Christmas specials on tv. Like the grinch, charlie brown, and all those retro claymation ones. And A Christmas Story 24 hour marathon on TBS.