SIS - Favorite Holiday Song
by obc2 on Dec 20, 2008 10:20 PM EST
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Tis the season.
The day after Thanksgiving a local radio station went to all Christmas songs until 12/25, I think. Its the station we use for background music so I created a contest where everyone on the staff picked the song they thought would be played most often this holiday season, and we put up a grease board to manually track the selections. Im not saying I had any rhyme or reason but I chose "Jingle Bell Rock", mainly because I know there's the old original version and the Hall and Oates version. And I love me some Hall and Oates, lol. Well.......currently im 5 or so plays ahead of the next closest song.
It got me to thinking. Whats YOUR favorite holiday or Christmas song? I hesitate to disclose that I own all three Harry Connick Jr Christmas cd's and I put them on the cd shuffle when the kids open presents Christmas morning. I only have a 5 cd player, circa 1990, and the other two discs are Buffett's "Christmas Island" and the Charlie Brown jazz piano disc. Yeah, you're welcome tHan!
I have no idea which song is my personal fave but I do admit I like a bunch of em. I blame my folks for playing Gene Autrey's Christmas phonograph ad naseum growing up.
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Hands down
Darlene Love – Christmas (Baby please come home)
Gets me going every time. I also really like Mariah Carey’s All I Want for Christmas is You which I would guess has played on satellite radio’s XMas channel more than any other song.
I also like pretty much any version of Sleigh Ride, but the Boston Pops’ is pretty wicked.
by Red Menace on Dec 21, 2008 12:12 AM EST reply actions 0 recs
Those are a couple of my favorites
My favorite is “White Christmas” sung by Otis Redding. Also a big fan of “Christmas Time” by Ray Charles and because of the Christmas Vacation ties – “The Spirit of Christmas” by Ray Charles. In fact, I like most of the music from Christmas Vacation.
Favorite Christmas albums are The Jackson 5 Christmas album and A Charlie Brown Christmas by the Vincent Guaraldi Trio.
We’’re in process of trying to a guy with a trade record of working with pitches
by Slyde on Dec 21, 2008 8:46 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
The Boston Pops can blow me.
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Sir Winston Churchill
by Madville on Dec 21, 2008 12:59 AM EST reply actions 0 recs
And silly me thought you'd be more into the string section...
I have discovered in 20 years of moving around a ballpark, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats. - Bill Veeck
by PeteyHendrix on Dec 22, 2008 5:47 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
You mean string theory
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Sir Winston Churchill
by Madville on Dec 22, 2008 9:57 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
"While You were Sleeping"
by Casting Crowns is wonderful. I saw them in concert with Natalie Grant a couple of weeks ago. Nearly anything by Manheim Steamroller or Trans-Siberian Orchestra is appreciated.
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by Thundering Turtle on Dec 21, 2008 1:07 AM EST reply actions 0 recs
I saw TSO last year
And was blown away. I always thought the concept was pretty cool but seeing it live made me a huge fan.
"Aio, quantitas magna frumentorum est."
by jch24 on Dec 21, 2008 7:03 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
I'll be damned....
I didnt realize Steamroller and TSO were two different bands : )
by obc2 on Dec 21, 2008 10:43 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
My high school band
used to play “Merry Christmas, Darling” every year. That, and the school fight song (borrowed from Notre Dame) were the only songs played every year.
But my favorite Christmas song, hands down, is Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer.
I even posted a…er…tribute a couple of years ago.
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by BubbaFan on Dec 21, 2008 6:51 AM EST reply actions 0 recs
Just so I can be the first to say it
“Fairytale of New York,” by the Pogues.
I’m also a fan of “Carol of the Bells,” “God Rest Ye, Merry Gentlemen,” and “O Holy Night.”
And Vince Guaraldi is one of the only jazz musicians I can stand.
by Brendanukkah on Dec 21, 2008 9:56 AM EST reply actions 0 recs
Everything he says is true
Also, “Snowfall” by the Halo Benders is good. Though it’s not technically a Christmas song, nor does it feature “good” singing of musicianship.
I got to go down to the stadium and whip batteries at the players on both teams. - Philly Boy Roy
by RijoSaboCaseyWKRP on Dec 21, 2008 1:03 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
"December 25" by Everything but the Girl
but as for the traditional songs, “Little Drummer Boy” has always been my favorite. i walked down the aisle at my wedding to it.
by Charlie Scrabbles on Dec 21, 2008 10:13 AM EST reply actions 0 recs
was it sung by Angela from The Office?
We’’re in process of trying to a guy with a trade record of working with pitches
by Slyde on Dec 21, 2008 10:17 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
That blew me away
When I first saw that, I checked my feet to be sure that I was not about to be sucked into a wormhole. Shit like that rips space-time to pieces.
by teb7 on Dec 21, 2008 12:07 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
I never thought of
“LIttle Drummer Boy” as a wedding song. But I guess it’s not as weird as the wedding I went to where the couple came down the isle to the “Theme from Star Trek.” (And no, it wasn’t Todd Coffey getting married.)
In high school, we had to sing “The Little Drummer Boy” in Spanish.
El camino que llega a Belén
baja hasta el valle que la nieve cubrió
Los pastorcillos quieren ver a su rey,
le traen regalos en su humilde purrón
ro po pon pon, ro po pon pon…
That, and “Silent Night”:
Noche de paz, noche de amor,
todo duerme en derredor…
About the only Spanish I remember these days.
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by BubbaFan on Dec 21, 2008 1:57 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
you could only get the first few notes in
before Coffey sprinted his way up to the altar.
...because there's already someone posing as Jacob Brumfield
by Cy Schourek on Dec 21, 2008 4:44 PM EST up reply actions 4 recs
Baby It's Cold Outside
Bing Crosby and Doris Day’s version.
In the hip Xmas music category, Are You Coming Over for Christmas? by Belle and Sebastian.
by ken on Dec 21, 2008 12:16 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
I liked the version of "Baby It's Cold Outside"
by Brendanukkah on Dec 21, 2008 4:31 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
In fact
that’s Johnny Mercer and Margaret Whiting singing ken’s favorite version of Baby, It’s Cold Outside.
by Red Menace on Dec 21, 2008 6:38 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Surprised
"Aio, quantitas magna frumentorum est."
by jch24 on Dec 21, 2008 1:12 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
I was coming here to post that
well done
"My wife ain't never ran and got me no pheasant." - Fistbands
by BK on Dec 21, 2008 1:15 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
cripes
i should have walked down the aisle to that!
by Charlie Scrabbles on Dec 21, 2008 7:38 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
I'm also down with Mariah's "All I Want For Christas (is you)"
Something about her in the girlie Santa outfit almost makes me forget that she’s fucking crazy. Almost.
"Aio, quantitas magna frumentorum est."
by jch24 on Dec 21, 2008 1:42 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
I don't ask for much this Christmas...
We’’re in process of trying to a guy with a trade record of working with pitches
by Slyde on Dec 21, 2008 2:37 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
except
Derek Jeter’s ex-girlfriend?
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by BubbaFan on Dec 21, 2008 2:50 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Poor Slyde
No Mariah. Just Reds Fantasy Camp…
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by BubbaFan on Dec 25, 2008 11:05 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
does it make you forget that she's fat?
Think of me what you will...I gotta little space to fill
by chandrathan on Dec 21, 2008 8:14 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Dude, if she's your definition of fat
You gots some issues.
"Aio, quantitas magna frumentorum est."
by jch24 on Dec 21, 2008 8:38 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
i like to go on internet message boards and call celebrities fat in order to start fights
so yeah, maybe i do have issues
Think of me what you will...I gotta little space to fill
by chandrathan on Dec 21, 2008 8:51 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
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Also the very underrated Stevie Wonder – What Christmas Means to Me. There’s lots of crappy covers of Merry Christmas Baby but Otis Redding’s is solid.
In the US city SIS someone made a case for Indianapolis. I was there on Saturday and that downtown area is happening. Stephen Curry’s game wasn’t
by Red Menace on Dec 21, 2008 2:34 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
Forgot about Redding's version
Good call.
"Aio, quantitas magna frumentorum est."
by jch24 on Dec 21, 2008 4:40 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
I like Sufjan Stevens' boxed set
and U2’s cover of Baby Please Come Home, but I generally find Christmas music to be annoying as a result of years of not being able to go anywhere for two months without having it shoved down your ears as you suffer from remix after remix of the songs (Dance of the Sugarplum Fairy drum and bass version, anyone? No thank you.)
The classics – Bing Crosby, Otis as Menace mentioned, Frank, Dean, Mitch Miller’s Sing Along Christmas Album, Glenn Miller Orchestra – those are all still great when hip hop country fusion versions of them aren’t being blasted while you stand behind someone ordering a Tall Not Short Double Mocha Raspberry Snowachino with a spring of mint, half soy milk, half whole milk, half decaffeinated, half double shot of espresso. Or when you realize you forgot to get someone the obligatory Christmas gift and have to run to the suburban sprawl to pick up some overpriced piece of garbage from China and you hear “Happy Christmas! War is over!” swirling among the petroleum based products in their toxic colors and the yellow ribbons that command “Support Our Troops!”
by Daedalus on Dec 21, 2008 3:10 PM EST reply actions 1 recs
Grinch call in sick today, did he?
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by Thundering Turtle on Dec 21, 2008 4:50 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
i suppose you'd call charlie brown a grinch, too.
by Daedalus on Dec 22, 2008 11:03 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Lucy definitely.
Charlie? Well, if he caught me on the right day maybe.
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by Thundering Turtle on Dec 22, 2008 12:10 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
In Philly they'd boo Charlie Brown
On Christmas Day. While sitting on John Kruk’s lap while he was playing Santa in the Christmas Day Parade.
I have discovered in 20 years of moving around a ballpark, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats. - Bill Veeck
by PeteyHendrix on Dec 22, 2008 5:50 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
I don't do Christmas any more
At least, not the buying obligatory garbage from China.
I’ve told all my friends and family that I’m not buying Christmas gifts, and asked them not buy me anything. They don’t always listen, especially my mom, but I think they are at least buying less, and more useful items.
I will spend money on experiences. Vacations, ball game tickets, etc. Instead of buying my family junk that they probably will never use, I take them on a vacation every few years (saving up the money I would have spent in Christmas and birthday gifts). And I donate money to liberal causes in the name of my politically active sister, which she likes more than anything else I could buy her.
It really makes Christmas much more relaxing and enjoyable. I suppose it might be different if there were kids involved, but there aren’t, and the last thing any of us grownups need is more junk.
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by BubbaFan on Dec 21, 2008 4:51 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
True
All the girls I fancy tell me they don’t need my junk.
by Brendanukkah on Dec 21, 2008 5:02 PM EST up reply actions 3 recs
Proud to be the first to rec this
"Aio, quantitas magna frumentorum est."
by jch24 on Dec 21, 2008 5:19 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Maybe...
…you should try the guys instead.
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by BubbaFan on Dec 21, 2008 6:41 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Nah
I’m smarter than the average bear.
by Brendanukkah on Dec 21, 2008 6:55 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
hmmm
I always thought there was something odd about Yogi and Boo Boo. What’s a grown bear doing spending so much time with an unrelated cub?
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by BubbaFan on Dec 21, 2008 7:07 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Two in a row?
Have we had that happen before?
"Aio, quantitas magna frumentorum est."
by jch24 on Dec 21, 2008 7:43 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Perhaps a "fancy lad"
I have discovered in 20 years of moving around a ballpark, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats. - Bill Veeck
by PeteyHendrix on Dec 22, 2008 5:54 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
I like the way you think.
Well, maybe not on the liberal causes so much, but that’s not enough to stand between a couple of Reds fans. (Or maybe I do, depending on what they are). We have five kids and we’ve never spent heavily on Christmas gifts. We celebrate Christ’s birth in a variety of ways. In fact, I’ve often wondered why non-Christians celebrate Christmas or Easter. I suppose it’s because of the commercialization of those holidays.
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by Thundering Turtle on Dec 21, 2008 7:37 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
I'm a "non-chriatian" if you will
I’m an agnostic born on Christmas, oh the irony. I celebrate Christmas out of respect to other religions and social construct, the same as saying gesundheit when someone sneezes. I’ve always tried to emphasize the “giving unto others” aspect as opposed to “who got the most shit” aspect.
I celebrate Easter for personal reasons, otherwise I wouldn’t.
"Aio, quantitas magna frumentorum est."
by jch24 on Dec 21, 2008 8:01 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
My sister
is a real left-winger. I try to give money to causes she would give money to herself, since that’s kind of the point of a gift.
As for why non-Christians celebrate Christmas and Easter…I suspect it’s for the same reason Christians participate is such obviously pagan festivities. It’s not just commercialization. It dates back centuries. It’s part of the culture. The Bible says nothing about Christmas trees, mistletoe, or elves at the North Pole. Nor does it mention bunnies hiding Easter eggs. Christians do those things because they are fun, and that’s why non-Christians do it, too.
My family is nontheist. For us, Christmas is a celebration of the spirit of giving. Easter is a celebration of spring and renewal. I really wasn’t even aware of the religious element until I was grown up.
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by BubbaFan on Dec 21, 2008 8:10 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Hard to explain
I drink Corona on Cinco de Mayo. Guiness on St Patricks Day. Last April Fool’s Day I told half my friends the blonde bombshell was moving in with me. I consume some Red Bicyclette on Bastille Day. I force vomit on Filipino Independence Day. On Canada Day I hoist a Molson and chew on some back bacon. And I eat gumbo on Fat Tuesday.
Its tons of fun to celebrate holidays that you dont necessarily understand or support. Nothing is finer than a nice bonfire out back on Arbor Day!!!
by obc2 on Dec 21, 2008 8:23 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
That's the fun thing about Hawai`i
It’s a melting pot – the only state where there is no majority ethnic group. So there are a lot of holidays to celebrate. :-)
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by BubbaFan on Dec 21, 2008 8:31 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
As a white military male
I can assure you that there’s a hated minority. :)
"Aio, quantitas magna frumentorum est."
by jch24 on Dec 21, 2008 8:39 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
That reminds me
I have a Hannukah Bush this year. Seriously:
You can see the colors are blue and white, like the flag of Israel, and there are little wooden dreidels as ornaments.
I don’t normally buy stuff like that, but it was for a worthy cause. For two days in a row, there were people trying to sell various holiday plants in front of my office. I felt really bad for them, because nobody was buying anything. (Really bad economy, with rumors of layoffs, furloughs, and pay cuts flying.) So the afternoon of the second day, I asked them what their cause was. (I knew they had to be a charity group, or they wouldn’t be allowed to set up where they were.)
They said they were raising money to help people who were suffering from substance abuse, and that items had been made by recovering addicts. And I remembered Josh Hamilton, and bought a $25 Hanukkah Bush. (I think they intentionally made them that way, so the trees would be acceptable to Christians and Jews. If you’re so inclined, can remove the dreidels and make it into a Christmas tree.)
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by BubbaFan on Dec 21, 2008 9:10 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Christmas is a pagan holiday
borrowed by the Romans for political purposes – to control the unruly mobs of christians who were stirring up trouble throughout the empire.
i’ve often wondered why christians celebrate christmas. or at least the santa claus mistletoe gift-grabbing version of it.
by Daedalus on Dec 22, 2008 10:53 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Hey, even we believers like a stroll or two under the mistletoe
with the right person!
I know Christ likely wasn’t born on Dec. 25, yet he was born so a celebration needs to take place sometime. I’m with you that it’s a shame that such celebration has hurtled headlong into a stress-filled, junk-buying “holiday” season that does nothing to glorify the One whose birth Christians celebrate.
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by Thundering Turtle on Dec 22, 2008 11:29 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
I celebrate Christmas because it's MY family tradition.
I have shed the religious extremism that I was raised under, but I still find the holiday season beautiful.
Relatives gather, often for the only time that year. The decorations and music waft like bittersweet scents under my nose, competing heartily with literal olfactory delights such as warm gingerbread and a freshly cut noble fir. Gifts are exchanged, showing at minimum that you were in another’s thoughts for a time that year, even if only obligatorily.
When I think of Christmas, I think of a giant, real tree in the front window of my childhood home, accompanied for infinity in my memory by a garish 3.5" interior-illuminated plastic Santa and my father’s rich baritone accompaniment to Bing Crosby’s Adeste Fidelis.
We didn’t have much when I was little…less than anyone I knew. I still eat fast, hoping that if I’m hasty, there might be a heavily-sought second helping in my future. That changed one magical day each year – Christmas. One year my father, who never made over $13,000 annually, saw the inadequate present haul in the hands of his children. Witnessing the inequity in his eyes, and feeling it more heavily in his cockles, he sent my mother back to the store. It would take some more saving, a few more interest payments, and lean times ahead for a family that had nothing but lean times in the rear view mirror. But Christmas meant a rare moment of giving to my father, and a rare moment of receiving to us kids. When I think of happy childhood memories, Christmas is always part of the setting.
Today is my son’s second birthday, and I plan on spoiling him a little. When he’s old enough to remember, I’ll do the Rockefeller technique of having him save his money in thirds – one third to save, one third to spend, one third to give away to those who need it more. But when I look into his big, blue eyes when i get home tonight, I’m sure I’ll see my dad’s eyes smiling back.
And then I’ll dunk on little Ben in Little Tikes Basketball. I’m sooooo much better than he is.
I have discovered in 20 years of moving around a ballpark, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats. - Bill Veeck
by PeteyHendrix on Dec 22, 2008 7:03 PM EST up reply actions 4 recs
Awesome, rec'd
"Aio, quantitas magna frumentorum est."
by jch24 on Dec 22, 2008 10:00 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
splat'd
"My wife ain't never ran and got me no pheasant." - Fistbands
by BK on Dec 22, 2008 10:09 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
that post was waaayyy too long, so i didn't read it...
then jch said it was awesome, so i took the time to read it…
petey you brought a tear to my eye…
Think of me what you will...I gotta little space to fill
by chandrathan on Dec 22, 2008 10:11 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
a little too familiar
except for the part about your son. i dont have kids yet. well done.
by Charlie Scrabbles on Dec 23, 2008 8:02 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
i hear that
my family always does a big Chinese gift exchange/white elephant/Yankee swap kinda thing where we all bring a food item. its usually homemade jams (i got hot pepper jam this year. yum!), cookies, pickled pigs feet, and other down home favorites. someone always brings something funny, like the year my cousin brought a 40 of high life and my enfeebled grandma got it. it is so much better than buying crummy gifts for each other and its so much more fun.
by Charlie Scrabbles on Dec 21, 2008 7:44 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
that sounds great
i finally managed to convince my family that i don’t want “things,” so they mostly buy me food, shampoos, socks – consumable stuff that doesn’t sit around and gather dust. one year i got 20 bars of soap from my sister. that was great! i didn’t have to buy soap all year!
by Daedalus on Dec 22, 2008 11:02 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
I wish I could get some of my family to understand that.
I don’t need another plastic doo dad, a stuffed toy that dances, a shirt that says “World’s Greatest” anything, or anything bought out of perceived obligation. If buying me something genuinely gives them a thrill, sure. Otherwise, I’m fine with nothing at all or something practical. Call me Scrooge Turtle, I reckon.
If we took the just the money wasted on gifts nobody wants, purchased for people we don’t particularly like, how many hungry folks could we feed? How many charities and ministries could be helped? How many Illinois senate seats could we purchase (OK, a little levity there)? Seriously, though. How many kids could we buy tickets for to attend a Reds game? How many meals could we put on tables? How many clothing articles could we buy for those who need them?
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by Thundering Turtle on Dec 22, 2008 11:41 AM EST up reply actions 1 recs
For that sort of thing, may I heartily reccommend
the folks from Heifer International.
I received one of their catalogs in the mail somehow and just leafing through the mail, I saw the cover of it and thought that it had to be some kind of joke. Then I opened it up and read it and I must say that it might be one of the coolest ideas I have ever seen.
I am going to try talk the wife into a purchase…maybe a bunch of chicks or some bees for starters. We may work ourselves into a goat before we’re through.
I have intentionally tried to be funny here, but this looks like something really worthwhile that a person can support over materialism for the holidays.
"I'd walk through hell in a gasoline suit to play baseball" - Pete Rose
by Officer Dibble on Dec 22, 2008 10:50 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Your link is busted
"Aio, quantitas magna frumentorum est."
by jch24 on Dec 22, 2008 10:59 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Heifer's cool
That’s one I’ve researched and been involved with in the past. Excellent organization.
There’s many more good ones. A cool site I like to check up on them is:
www.charitynavigator.org
You can look them up there and make sure they aren’t scamming your money. I searched for one that was dedicated to signing Willy Taveras, to protect us. But alas, there was none. :)
by bbjones on Dec 23, 2008 12:12 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Shows what I get
For following the linking tool built into the site.
Thanks for the housework, jch.
"I'd walk through hell in a gasoline suit to play baseball" - Pete Rose
by Officer Dibble on Dec 24, 2008 1:56 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
I like Heifer International
I would be happy to receive a gift like that.
(No, I’m not planning to show up at Wrigley with a goat. The animals are given to people in developing nations in your name, not delivered to your doorstep.)
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by BubbaFan on Dec 23, 2008 12:36 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
My family is a big proponent of Heifer International.
So do what Brendanukkah’s mom would do (you!). Donate to Heifer International.
by Brendanukkah on Dec 23, 2008 5:55 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
We did that at our church this year, too.
Very worthwhile.
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by Thundering Turtle on Dec 23, 2008 7:58 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
I've donated to Heifer too
Another good one is kiva.org. You lend money to an entrepeneur in the developing world to help them rise out of poverty. When they do, you are paid back. And then you can lend to somebody else, etc. etc. I believe the payback rate is over 90%. I first heard about this while seeing Bill Clinton give a speech at Radio City Music Hall a few months ago. And ol’ Bill knows something about helping the developing world.
by ctnyc on Dec 26, 2008 11:05 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
rec'd
I was going to mention kiva.org. 0% interest is a pretty competitive interest rate these days.
I have discovered in 20 years of moving around a ballpark, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats. - Bill Veeck
by PeteyHendrix on Dec 27, 2008 2:27 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Here's some guys who don't want your money
Really, they won’t take it. But you can give it to someone else.
That’s pretty cool, IMHO.
p.s. watch the video, it rocks.
by bbjones on Dec 22, 2008 5:25 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
That's tremendous!
Absolutely tremendous. I’ll be taking that tour my family and to our church. Thanks bb. You’re all right, no matter what Madville says.
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by Thundering Turtle on Dec 22, 2008 6:01 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Gee thanks
Ya know, it’s a beautiful thing when some straight-shooting Turtles, some usually drunk …others…, a kid who likes to light things on fire, and some stats nerds can all hang out together, like ebony and ivory. Maybe Rodney King was wrong, and we can all get along.
Well, at least until Festivus. Then it will all come out on the rug.
:)
by bbjones on Dec 22, 2008 10:23 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Or you could buy every RR a complimentary copy of:
Sun Ra and his Arkestra : The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra, now that’s music.
Or you could flounder on with:
Perry Como
Ramsey Lews
Dave Burpbeck
Andy Williams
Doris Day
and hundreds of other pre-muzak mallsongsters.
http://rds.yahoo.com/_ylt=A0geu7rC0U9JkFIBOElXNyoA/SIG=120dl5g0f/EXP=1230054210/**http3a//www.youtube.com/watch3fv=3SsBtfuSDxw
Here’s his solo on Silent Night
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Sir Winston Churchill
by Madville on Dec 22, 2008 12:50 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Winter Wonderland album by MU330!
…anyone? No? I am astonished.
I remember playing Sleighride every year for band – the best parts being the percussion bits with the non-stop jingle-bells and hoof/temple blocks and whip-cracking. So I suppose I’m rather fond of that song.
Everybody's a jerk. You. Me. This jerk.
by andromache on Dec 21, 2008 8:58 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
Screw Winter Wonderland
Check out:
How’d Ya Like To Spend Christmas on Christmas Island?
By the incredible Ernest Tubb (Prior to his hooking up w/Dolly)
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
Sir Winston Churchill
by Madville on Dec 21, 2008 9:06 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
First among equals
has got to be Winter Wonderland by Eurythmics.
With a tip of the hat to some other classics:
Little Drummer Boy by Crosby and Bowie
Christmas is the Time to Say I Love You by Billy Squire
Wonderful Christmastime by Macca
You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch by Thurl Ravenscroft
Coming Down the Chimney by Andy Williams
Walking ’Round in Womens Underwear by Bob Rivers
Rusty Chevrolet by Da Yoopers
and last, but sure as hell not least, The Christmas Song by Nat King Cole
And I listen to Vince Guaraldi’s Charlie Brown Christmas album all year ’round. As a collected work, there is nothing finer.
"I'd walk through hell in a gasoline suit to play baseball" - Pete Rose
by Officer Dibble on Dec 21, 2008 9:37 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
i like that eurythmics version
it’s on the same very special christmas cd as U2’s baby please come home.
by Daedalus on Dec 22, 2008 10:56 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Bono got Jimmy in some trouble in Jamaica
Think of me what you will...I gotta little space to fill
by chandrathan on Dec 22, 2008 11:11 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Annie Lennox.
One of the few bright spots in a dismal music decade of the 1980s.
We Are ... Marshall!
by Thundering Turtle on Dec 22, 2008 11:33 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Bob Rivers
I kinda like The Chimney Song. Not quite as perverted as his usual (but still pretty sick).
All Things Bubba: Because how can you not love a baseball player named Bubba?
by BubbaFan on Dec 25, 2008 11:07 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
TT you obviously forgot about -
The great British band: Flux Of Pink Indians
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
Sir Winston Churchill
by Madville on Dec 22, 2008 12:52 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
Weren't they on a rerun of a
Lawrence Welk Christmas Special on PBS a couple of weeks back?
We Are ... Marshall!
by Thundering Turtle on Dec 22, 2008 1:02 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
oh man
i cant believe i forgot Christmas Celebration. numero uno.
by Charlie Scrabbles on Dec 22, 2008 5:58 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
Bing Crosby
It starts and ends with Bing.
Christmas In Killarney and Adeste Fidelis – Bing Crosby
Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree – Brenda Lee
It’s The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year – Andy Williams
You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch – Thurl Ravenscroft
and Holly, Jolly Christmas by Burl Ives, although almost anything from an old-school Rankin-Bass Animagic Movie will do.
I want to be a dentist.
I have discovered in 20 years of moving around a ballpark, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats. - Bill Veeck
by PeteyHendrix on Dec 22, 2008 7:11 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
I hope everyone knows that Bing was a fascist prick to his kids
His sons really had nothing to do with him. He was Mr. Wonderful on the screen but a real bastard at home.
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
Sir Winston Churchill
by Madville on Dec 22, 2008 10:02 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Are you giving Bing lip?
Because he’ll take his belt off and go upside your head.
by Red Menace on Dec 22, 2008 10:10 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Or use a bag of valencia oranges
"Aio, quantitas magna frumentorum est."
by jch24 on Dec 22, 2008 10:13 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
he's the ike turner of something
Think of me what you will...I gotta little space to fill
by chandrathan on Dec 22, 2008 10:14 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
The Ike Turner of 'mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmy way'
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
Sir Winston Churchill
by Madville on Dec 23, 2008 12:28 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Ike Turner is an apt analogy.
He made great music that makes me feel good…and it doesn’t detract from my enjoyment of the music that he was a wife-beater…until someone brings it up to harsh my mellow.
We drove the family by Bing’s old house a few nights ago to look at the lights. I got to share this story with the family, all from Bing’s old driveway:
In 1943 Bing’s Christmas tree caught fire, setting his house ablaze. As he watched the house burn, simply smoking his pipe, he swiftly called out ‘My golf shoes!’ and ran into the flaming house to rescue his charred golf shoes from the entry closet. You see, those spikes contained a large bankroll of his poker winnings – as much as $30,000, worth over $350,000 in today’s dollars!
I have discovered in 20 years of moving around a ballpark, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats. - Bill Veeck
by PeteyHendrix on Dec 23, 2008 12:46 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Ba Ba Boom..de Ba Ba Dum
Bing slides into every not rarely hits it square on…the Black Jazz players thought Bing was a hoot when he pretended to ‘scat’.
Another Iconic American Lie – brought to you by Bing.
Suck it Bingo 
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
Sir Winston Churchill
by Madville on Dec 23, 2008 6:14 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
You know what?
If I never hear “Santa Baby” again, it will be too soon.
by Brendanukkah on Dec 26, 2008 1:41 AM EST reply actions 0 recs
she just died you heartless bastard!
Think of me what you will...I gotta little space to fill
by chandrathan on Dec 26, 2008 8:49 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Not Taylor
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
Sir Winston Churchill
by Madville on Dec 26, 2008 12:02 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
Taylor Swift that is
http://rds.yahoo.com/ylt=A0oGklOoDFVJRD0BsFxXNyoA/SIG=12ihva7nl/EXP=1230396968/**http%3a//www.metacafe.com/watch/2176409/santababy_taylor_swift/
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
Sir Winston Churchill
by Madville on Dec 26, 2008 12:03 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
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