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The redneck version that I heard as a kid was way worse than that. Things I won’t repeat…
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Generalizing a bit, aren’t we? I never heard this version of the rhyme
Jingle Bells (Batman Smells): An incomplete festive folk-rhyme taxonomy
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#32Tom Scott did a video in 2020 on the exact same subject and premise[0], and it's super interesting. I'd recommend it to anybody who enjoyed this article, honestly. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5u9JSnAAU4 - Tom Scott, 'I Asked 64,182 People About “Jingle Bells, Batman Smells”. Here's What I Found Out.'
Yeah the Tom Scott video is based on significantly more data. Seems weird that this person wouldn't have found it when researching this topic.
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#33A classic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XU6zrGyUUo
Does anyone else remember the 12 pains of Christmas? RIGGING UP THE LIGHTS!! Yo-ho, sending Christmas cards. The damn lightS!!! Facing my in laws! One light goes out, they all go out!!!!!!! FiiiiiIIIIIIiiiive months of bills!! She's a witch, I hate her. You're so smart, YOU rig up the lights! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMxgttJpbZE
It was several years after first time I heard this that, that i realized that #3 was an impression of Archie Bunker with: "Edith, get me a beer, huh.", "oh jeez look at this" and "oh who's got the terlit paper."
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#35Does "While Shepherds Washed their Socks by Night" count?
How about the add-ons/call-backs to Rudolph the Red nosed reindeer: Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer *(reindeer)* Had a very shiny nose *(like a light bulb)* And if you ever saw it *(saw it)* You would even say it glows *(like a light bulb)* All of the other reindeer *(reindeer)* Used to laugh and call him names *(like Pinochio)* They never let poor Rudolph *(Rudolph)* Play in any reindeer games *(like Monopoly)* Then…
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a (original?) version is from 1975 on john denver's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky_Mountain_Christmas
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#36"Jingle bells, Batman smells, Robin laid an egg. The Batmobile lost its wheel and the Joker ran away." is the version I heard as a kid in the American midwest. It's fascinating to me that this rhyme was international at a time in my life before I'd ever heard about the internet. Edit: Oh, it's simple. This is the version broadcast on The Simpsons TV show in 1989 and I must have heard it second-hand from my fellow stu…
We were singing this before the The Simpsons, so I wonder if it was the show that made it international or it already was that way.
Same. I was singing this in the very early 80's, if not late 70's.
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> My mother grew up in the Soviet Bloc Ah yes, famous racial utopias, all of them.
Surprisingly, communism was antiracist which explains why it was popular outside the US. There is the fact that many communists were racist on a personal level, but the state policies were inclusive due to the very nature of the ideology. As someone who also comes from the former block, I think that communism was a bad idea with terrible implementation but it also had its moments no matter what the US propaganda is trying to present it as.
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> My mother grew up in the Soviet Bloc Ah yes, famous racial utopias, all of them.
Surprisingly, communism was antiracist which explains why it was popular outside the US. There is the fact that many communists were racist on a personal level, but the state policies were inclusive due to the very nature of the ideology. As someone who also comes from the former block, I think that communism was a bad idea with terrible implementation but it also had its moments no matter what the US propaganda is t…
Have you heard about Roma? The communist states tried to help them but in a hamfisted ways like separating kids from parents. They did nothing to actually resolve racism. Many Roma ended up in squalor in segregated settlements. That goes on to this day and improves very slowly. It definitely was not "its moment".
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#40A classic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XU6zrGyUUo
Does anyone else remember the 12 pains of Christmas? RIGGING UP THE LIGHTS!! Yo-ho, sending Christmas cards. The damn lightS!!! Facing my in laws! One light goes out, they all go out!!!!!!! FiiiiiIIIIIIiiiive months of bills!! She's a witch, I hate her. You're so smart, YOU rig up the lights! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMxgttJpbZE
I wonder how those subtitles were made.
Reminds me of the “Misheard Joe Cocker Lyrics” video: https://vimeo.com/448217206