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Jingle Bells (Batman Smells): An incomplete festive folk-rhyme taxonomy

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Re: Jingle Bells (Batman Smells): An incomplete festive folk-rhyme taxonomy

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Post by shagie »

Tangent - Monktoberfest 2016: Bryan Cantrill - Oral Tradition in Software Engineering https://youtu.be/4PaWFYm0kEw?si=avSAlBsCVUzjW2xo&t=163 (only 2:43 in ... so after the relevant clip, start over and you'll catch back up quickly)

> so let's just do a little experiment here ... um ... so if I say Jingle Bells Batman Smells you say ...

> okay where did you learn that? If that's not a movie reference; it's not not from a TV show; you learn that the way I learned that you learned that - on the playground. You learned that from another eight-year-old another seven-year-old ...

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Post by culi »

cvwright wrote: post #17
LorenDB wrote: post #9

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.

The redneck version that I heard as a kid was way worse than that. Things I won’t repeat…

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Post by phantasmish »

jimnotgym wrote: post #18
nephihaha wrote: post #6

Does "While Shepherds Washed their Socks by Night" count?

While Shepherds watched their kidney beans All boiling in a pot A load of soot came tumbling down and spoiled the blinking lot Alternative. The Angel of the Lord came down and eat the blinking lot. Definitely British. Evidenced by the term 'kidney bean'

I’m in the US and was able to look straight up from where I’m sitting at a shelf of canned food and spot a store brand can labeled “kidney beans”. We call them that, too.

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Post by jephson »

cgriswald wrote: post #14
hecanjog wrote: post #10

"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.

I recall being 6 years old and singing the "Wonder Woman lost her bosoms" variant at primary school in New Zealand. This was 1982 so definitely sung internationally prior to The Simpsons.

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Post by _mes7 »

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 an egg! - - -"
  "Batmobile lost a wheel and the Joker played ballet! HEY!"
  "Jingle bells, Batman smells, Granny got a gun, - - -"
  "? ? ?, and shot a man in 1931! HEY!!!"

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Post by schoen »

mxmilkiib wrote: post #7

fwiw, from North East Fife (Scotland), it has been ('89/'90) "the Batmobile lost a wheel, and landed in the Tay", the Tay being the big volume river between Fife (the Scottie dog shaped bit on the East) n Dundee/Tayside (with the Tay having come via Perth etc)

I only know the Tay from the poem:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tay_Bridge_Disaster

Hopefully I'll get to see it sometime.

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Post by raldi »

_mes7 wrote: post #25

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)?

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Post by [deleted] »

_mes7 wrote: post #25

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…

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Post by randycupertino »

nephihaha wrote: post #6

Does "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 one foggy Christmas Eve Santa came to say *(Ho Ho Ho)*

Rudolph with your nose so bright Won't you guide my sleigh tonight? Then all the reindeer loved him *(loved him)*

And they shouted out with glee *(yippee)*

"Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer *(reindeer)*

You'll go down in history!" *(Like George Washington!")*

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Post by randycupertino »

ChrisMarshallNY wrote: post #11

A 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

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