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The redneck version goes something like "Jingle Bells, shotgun shells, Santa Claus is dead. Grandma got her .44 and shot him in the head." Don't ask, it's not original with me.
"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…
Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells why won’t they shut up
Being chased by werewolves, ain’t this just my luck
Dashing through the gloom
In a one-horse open cart
Trying to escape the doom
Where Werewolves eat my heart
You had to read the tome
And utter the mad curse
Now if we get home
I’m sure it’s in a hearse
Ohhhh…
Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells why won’t they shut up
Being chased by werewolves, ain’t this just my luck
Advanced version from early 2000s (US), incorporating several additional lyrical-flow improvements on phrases seen in the Tom Scott video and TFA: "Dashing through the snow - - on a pair of broken skis - - -" "Down the hills we go - - - Crashing into trees!" "The snow is turning red - - I think I'm almost dead - -" "And now I'm in the hospital with stitches in my head! Oh, -" "Jingle bells, Batman smells, Robin laid…
I’m guessing the missing part probably ended with an internal rhyme for “man”. Maybe “missed the can” (she was aiming at)?
? ? ?, ? ? ? ?, in nineteen thirty one. Hey!"Jingle Bells, Batman smells, Robin flew away, Wonder Woman lost her boobs - flying TAA."
Context note : TAA or Trans Australia Airlines was a major Australian domestic airline of the time, later merged into Qantas.
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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".
If you believe that for even a moment you need to read a book.
(aka "The Munchkin's Theme" ) (to the tune of "Jingle Bells")
Slashing through the Orcs
With a good two-handed blade
Over corpses we go
And through the gore we wade
Mace on helmet rings
Making bodies fly
What fun to sing our Slaying Song
And watch these suckers DIE!
https://hack.org/~mc/writings/hackerdom/ring-their-bells.tex...
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Are there particular successes that you have in mind? Because what comes to my mind is stuff like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deportation_of_the_Crimean_Tat...
Yep, worker's rights, universal health care, women's rights (voting, divorce, abortion, generous maternity leave). Compared to Switzerland which allowed women voting rights in the seventies, communism was putting uncomfortable comparisons at some moments. If you wonder why communism was attractive, it wasn't just because of propaganda or because people were stupid, but because communism was addressing actual problems…