GFR7
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This list mirrors exactly what my own would be. Handel's Messiah would be an addition on mine.
Best/Worst Christmas Song List
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GFR7
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Zoo who I think is actually t heretic
zoo22
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Yeah. Well, be careful not to wear yourself out with all of that thinking.
No, I only argue with myself offline.
But given his degree of insight and gift for humor, I'll take the compliment. He's probably going to neg rep you though. :chuckle:
Another for the worst list and also by "The Boss": Merry Christmas, Baby. (shudders)
Cruciform
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In the song, this is a reference to Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol---"a scary ghost story."
ROFL!
Haven't seen very much of you lately.
How's your Whoopie Cushion factory business going?
I still got the last one you gave me.
I love it!
I've heard that stab before. Here's the problem:
There'll be parties for hosting
Marshmallows for toasting
And caroling out in the snow
There'll be scary ghost stories
And tales of the glories of
Christmases long, long ago
Marshmallows for toasting
And caroling out in the snow
There'll be scary ghost stories
And tales of the glories of
Christmases long, long ago
That's stories. Plural.
Who tells ghost stories at Christmas? No one, that's who. The doofus who wrote it needed the rhyme set up and in it went.
And, anyway, A Christmas Carol is about as much a ghost story as Exodus is a travelogue.
:mmph: Bah humbug.
No, I only argue with myself offline.
He's probably going to neg rep you though. :chuckle:
You mean she's
No.
lain:
annabenedetti
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I've heard that stab before. Here's the problem:
There'll be parties for hostingThat's stories. Plural.
Marshmallows for toasting
And caroling out in the snow
There'll be scary ghost stories
And tales of the glories of
Christmases long, long ago
Who tells ghost stories at Christmas? No one, that's who. The doofus who wrote it needed the rhyme set up and in it went.
And, anyway, A Christmas Carol is about as much a ghost story as Exodus is a travelogue.
:mmph: Bah humbug.
:think:
There'll be Brits in their lorries?
... relatives hoary?
... roadkill so gory?
annabenedetti
like marbles on glass
Don't you have something better to do, like telling someone to get the hell off your patio before you knock them off?
Did you mean Gits?...in the South it could be "and grits, not lame porridge".
:shocked:
:think: now that's called creative eatin' in parts of Mississippi.
See? Two guys couldn't come up with alternatives. And before anyone trots in the "Victorian tradition" horsefeathers, the song was penned in the 1960's. Horrible song. :mmph:
zoo22
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No. Go look it up. Telling ghost stories on Christmas Eve was traditional.
The tradition of holiday ghost stories was pretty much squelched in America. We made Christmas warm and cuddly. But even in the holiday cuddliness, you can still see how some of the traditional kids stories/shows still beckon to a fright... How The Grinch Stole Christmas. The Year Without a Santa Claus (Snow Miser & Heat Miser ). Gremlins was a Christmas movie. They're all cute seasonal ghosts/ghouls, but still, they're seasonal ghosts/ghouls. Obviously The Nightmare Before Christmas is rooted in Victorian/gothic horror.
But before we made it all so cute, Christmas ghost stories were a part of the Christmas traditions.
Winter is dark, it's cold, everything is dead. As serene and beautiful as it can be, there's a frightening aspect to winter.
If you're serious, get a grip. That it's a great piece of literature doesn't mean A Christmas Carol isn't a ghost story. Of course it is. It's one of the greatest ghost stories ever written.
Dickens' preface to A Christmas Carol:
:mmph: Bah humbug.
Have some fun. It's okay that it's a Christmas ghost story.
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Cruciform
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Dickens wrote more than one ghost story about Christmas.
lain:Everybody who watches any of a good number of film versions of A Christmas Carol with their family during the Holiday Season, or who reads Dickens's wonderful Christmas stories aloud, as do I and my family. Try again?
A rather odd claim about a story that features four ghosts as main characters, and describes dozens of ghosts as background individuals. :doh:
Also, see Post #55 above.
Gaudium de veritate,
Cruciform
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Well, if anyone ever questions that you're going to be armed for bear. I went even further in noting that it was a Victorian tradition. Then I noted the year that song came out here. :nono:Dickens wrote more than one ghost story about Christmas.
Not so much.
Only Marley is a ghost within the active narrative. The visitors are spirits. The ghosts mentioned else don't make it a ghost story any more than Ben Hur is a horse story.
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Cruciform
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"Who and what are you?" Scrooge demanded.
"I am the Ghost of Christmas Past."
"I am the Ghost of Christmas Past."
You've been sufficiently answered and corrected in the previous posts above. Nice try, though.
Gaudium de veritate,
Cruciform
+T+
zoo22
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The ghosts mentioned else don't make it a ghost story any more than Ben Hur is a horse story.
Can it be clearer than this:
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Didn't remember that line, but you're still a couple of alleged ghosts short of:
Which still wouldn't make it a ghost story.
But that's before we even get to the principle note that the Victorian tradition of ghost stories died out of popular culture a wee bit prior to the 1960's in America.
lain:Horrid song.