I wish this every year.

Is this something you have to live here for a long time to understand?

Or there's this neat thing called Google. EL

Just don't listen to Lite 102. They seem to be the only station that plays it!

Dominick the Italian Christmas Donkey

Papa Noel by Brenda Lee

Step Into Christmas Elton John

all guaranteed to make you want to "adjust" your hearing with a screwdriver.

How about losing those dogs that bark Jingle Bells, but I like the chicken that clucks "In The Mood".

catty comments

Nope...not with the proverbial pole that is 10 feet long

I thought it was just me.

That Italian Donkey thing? I just heard it for the first time this week. I truly hope never to hear it again.

puzzle yesterday...why, yes it was!

As long as I get "Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer," I'm good.

Please add "Simply Having a Wonderful Christmas Time" to the list of most hated Christmas songs, right behind "Step into Christmas" my personally most hated of all holiday songs

Christmas Wrapping by the Waitresses--what a great song! You can listen to it at this site.

http://www.hardcafe.co.uk/waitresses/xmas_wrapping.htm

"existed salting" for the snow, no doubt

i've been very tempted to pick up the rick dempsey/dianna bogart home run holiday cd while at the farmstore for my weekly scratch off and beef jerky fix but have so far resisted the temptation. can i use my ebt card for that too?

I try to avoid google searchings involving certain words, including crabs, having gotten some pornoriffic results. But, yes, you were right, EL, I should have googled it. Fortunately, streaming is against policy at work.

I've been considering going to the West Baltimore MARC, despite the weather, rather than Penn Station, just to avoid the Christmas muzak. It really is a miracle I haven't committed homicide yet, being exposed to that dreck.

I knew you knew how to Google. :-) EL

isn't there something about xmas shoes for a dead mother? Or is that some other drek.

I love "The 12 things at Christmas that's such a pain to me"." It never fails to make me laugh :)

I try to listen to every station that DOESN'T play christmas music, which is pretty much WTMD but as the holiday rapidly approaches I'll be listening to my collection of CD's in the car and Radio Paradise at home and work (www.radioparadise.com- so far not one christmas song!)

HANGovas!

Yes, "Crabs for Christmas" is pretty bad. And that "Walkin' in an Essex Wonderland" that 98Rock used to (still does?) play is just plain bad.

choctaw Times: Cleatus' Native American newspaper

This morning I heard "Don't be a Jerk... It's Christmas" and I LOVED it. :-)

PCB Rob, remember on 98 Rock the 'I am Santa Claus" to the tune of Black Sabbath's "Iron Man"? Patty, I am with you on that christmas shoes song!

Trixie,
No, I don't remember that one. And being an old Sabbath fan, I would have remembered it. I'd like to hear it, just once though.

I just heard "I am Santa Claus" for the first time this morning. I was only half awake and at first thought my hearing was shot! Although not my favorite, I liked it.

Rob, I posted it over on FB. Still can't figure out how to link over here. I know the directions are over under the categories...

Trixie,
I googled and found it.
I could only stand the first 30 seconds or so of it.

Are you guys trying to come up with the top 10 songs not to play at your family Christmas dinner?

patty, it's called "The Christmas Shoes" by a group called Newsong, and it was such a hit with some people that they made it into a TV movie.

It'a absolutely the worst Christmas song ever.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNsvE33pRSw

I think I can top (or go beneath) all the prior suggestions. On Amazon, you can buy How Cool Is That Christmas, by none other than Rachael Ray. Just looking at the listing, I think I threw up in my ear.

hmpstd, really laughing out loud!

EL - I think you were referring to your Christmas Wishul.

mmm captcha "crucial Liqueurs." I'll go with Butterscotch schnapps, Frangelico, and Hot Damn.

Anything by the Chipmunks sends me screaming into the night. OTOH, I'm a huge fan of Snoopy's Christmas by The Royal Guardsmen and "I saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus"- but only the John Cougar version. Somehow, you can tell he's in on the joke, and winking at you as he sings.

And it is now time for Jimmy Buffett's "Christmas Island" CD to join the regular rotation.

mixing Wackos- the party at my house tommorrow. This thing knows me WAY too well.

What sort of dreck radio station do you listen to that you are subjected to this?

I've never heard of it, so for those who are curious, here it is:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74INc6WwqYg

I think it is delightful.

ALLAN SHERMAN..lest we forget

On the first day of Christmas,
My true love gave to me,
A Japanese transistor radio.

On the second day of Christmas,
My true love gave to me,
Green polka dot pajamas,
And a Japanese transistor radio.

(It's a Nakashuma.)

On the third day of Christmas,
My true love gave to me,
A calendar book with the name of my insurance man,
Green polka dot pajamas,
And a Japanese transistor radio.
(It's the Mark IV model. That's the one that's discontinued.)

On the fourth day of Christmas,
My true love gave to me,
A simulated alligator wallet,
A calendar book with the name of my insurance man,
Green polka dot pajamas,
And a Japanese transistor radio.

(And it comes in a Leatherette case with holes in it. So you could listen right
through the case.)

On the fifth day of Christmas,
My true love gave to me,
A statue of a lady with a clock where her stomach ought to be,
A simulated alligator wallet,
A calendar book with the name of my insurance man,
Green polka dot pajamas,
And a Japanese transistor radio.
(And it has a wire with a thing on one end that you could stick in your ear, an
d a thing on the other end that you can't stick anywhere because it's bent.)

On the sixth day of Christmas,
My true love gave to me,
A hammered aluminum nutcracker,
And all that other stuff,
And a Japanese transistor radio.

[Continue until . . . ]

On the twelfth day of Christmas,
Although it may seem strange;
On the twelfth day of Christmas,
I'm going to exchange:
An automatic vegetable slicer that works when you see it on television but not w
hen you get it home,
A chromium combination manicure scissors and cigarette lighter,
A pair of teakwood shower clogs,
An indoor plastic birdbath,
A pink satin pillow that says ``San Diego'' with fringe all around it,
A hammered aluminum nutcracker,
A statue of a lady with a clock where her stomach ought to be,
A simulated alligator wallet,
A calendar book with the name of my insurance man,
Green polka dot pajamas,
And a Japanese transistor radio.

The Christmas Shoes is also a book. And, it has a sequel whose name I don't remember because when I picked it up off the "Seasonal" shelf at the library and realized what it was, I started to hypervetilate.

Longet Anxious.....intuitively, yes.

Well, if y'all are sick of commercial radio -- and apparently you are! -- listen to REAL music on WBJC FM. Who knows, you might even like it.