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Thing to ponder
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Now then, S&C-ers, I have three very difficult questions for you to ponder over the holiday. Yes, yes, I know that you want to relax but it's a good thing to exercise the brain after all that food. So put on your mental climbing boots and put your mind to these real toughies: 1. Why do drawings of Christmas trees always show the branches sloping downwards when, in real life, they slope upwards? Phew! A real stinker, eh? I'm afraid the others are no easier. Sorry! 2. Why do we allow our children to single a thoroughly immoral song like Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer? Do we want to teach them that it's OK to mock someone who is physically different ("�used to laugh and call him names. They wouldn't let poor Rudolph join in any reindeeer games") and then fawn all over him once he becomes teacher's pet ("Oh how the reindeer loved him, as they shouted out with glee�)? Disgraceful, don't you agree? 3. Why do we sing While Shepherds Watched� to such a dreary tune, which leaves the last line of every verse to sink away in a weary cadence? Try singing it to the tune of "On Ilkla Moor Baht 'At" and listen to the way those last lines, twice-repeated, ring out in triumph! Well, there we are. I hope you leave enough time between your deep ponderings to have a wonderful Christmas. And do have a happy and fulfilling 2008.
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1) Different species of coniferous tree vary in shape.
2) 'Rudolph' teaches that being different can be a good thing. Though at first laughed at for being different, Rudolph eventually proves himself the most useful of the group.
3) Songs do not have to be sung to their traditional tune, so there's nothing to stop anyone singing 'Shepherds' to a more lively tune (I can imagine a gospel choir singing it). However, the traditional tune is slow because it's meant to be sentimental and romantic.
Happy Christmas, chakka. :-)
2) 'Rudolph' teaches that being different can be a good thing. Though at first laughed at for being different, Rudolph eventually proves himself the most useful of the group.
3) Songs do not have to be sung to their traditional tune, so there's nothing to stop anyone singing 'Shepherds' to a more lively tune (I can imagine a gospel choir singing it). However, the traditional tune is slow because it's meant to be sentimental and romantic.
Happy Christmas, chakka. :-)
1.) Your appendages would droop too if someone chopped your feet off.
2.) It is quite understandable that the alpha reindeer has a red nose. It is red from ambarrasmant at being called Rudolph - what a stupid name for a female reindeer.
3.) Christmas supper is the only time I am allowed free reign with the booze as I never work between xmas and newyear. It is also the only time of the year that I partake in merriment and song with a liberal amount of gusto. In the early evening I drink Coke with Bourbon and later on I drink Bourbon with Coke, near midnight I will have run out of Coke. At this stage I will have lost all inhibitions and am truly past caring how well a tune sounds or aware of the lyrics - proper or otherwise. It has been known at the odd occasion to hear "God Save the Queen' being sung to the tune of 'My Boomerang won't come back'. Once this sounds ok to oneself, one knows that one is properly soused and really enjoying oneself.
Really looking forward to the New Year and hope I have a similar one to this one. I sincerely hope that all ABers have a great year too and enjoy themselves at crimbo.
May all that political correctness fall off the cart next year and see the return of normal sensibility.
you're right, chakka, those ones at the top are definitely sloping up
http://www.thegreenhead.com/imgs/upside-down-c orner-xmas-tree-1.jpg
http://www.thegreenhead.com/imgs/upside-down-c orner-xmas-tree-1.jpg
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