Politically incorrect carols, jokes
By Todd Stadler · Wednesday, November 28, 2007 9:47am
Julia and I were amusing ourselves by speaking the lyrics of Christmas carols (particularly the modern, schlocky ones — yes, Brenda Lee, I mean you) as if they were prose, and giggling at some of the poor word choices and awkward turns of phrase, when we came across this lyric:
Have yourself a merry little Christmas
Make the yuletide gay
Oh, that so will not fly in this day and age! You can't make the yuletide gay — the yuletide doesn't choose that! The yuletide has always been that way!
Anyhow, as I was saying, "dancing and prancing in Jingle Bell Square"? Please.
3 comments so far
1 Nov 28 '07 11:16am:
autumn replied:
"Come on, let's take that one a bit further and shake our collective heads at the BLATANT sexual innuendo and reference to drug use herein:
"snowin' and blowin' up bushels of fun..."
it's a travesty."
2 Nov 28 '07 11:37pm:
tODD replied:
"For what it's worth, that's equal to 4 pecks, or over 9 gallons of "fun"!"
3 Dec 13 '07 10:35pm:
Jarrett replied:
"It's not exactly the same, but nearly the entirety of "Do They Know It's Christmas" seems pretty blatantly politically incorrect. Is there a greater example of something created (I assume) with he best intentions turning out to be so completely awkward it's almost self-negatingly offensive? There probably is - this is just a song. But still, those painful, shameful, surprisingly ignorant lyrics...."