{"id":24099,"date":"2015-12-25T01:54:08","date_gmt":"2015-12-25T09:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=24099"},"modified":"2016-12-04T11:08:54","modified_gmt":"2016-12-04T18:08:54","slug":"not-exactly-traditional-but","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/25\/not-exactly-traditional-but\/","title":{"rendered":"Not exactly traditional, but &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wasn&#8217;t going to post today, but Jim Bovard tempted me with his Christmas musical finds. And those led me into the darkest depths of YouTubery.<\/p>\n<p>If you want more traditional carols, check out the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/2015\/12\/24\/merry-christmas-5\" target=\"_blank\">comment thread on yesterday&#8217;s post<\/a>, where Christmas helpers have been posting links to sublime stuff.<\/p>\n<p>Warning: what follows here may not exactly fall into the &#8220;sublime&#8221; category.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jeff Foxworthy&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UBKGoj7nKAw\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;12 Redneck Days of Christmas&#8221;<\/a>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/UBKGoj7nKAw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Next up is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=m_1AYVaByOs\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Santa Claus is Tapping Your Phone&#8221;<\/a> sung by what appears to be a bunch of drunken members of the Glastonbury Chamber of Commerce:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"450\" height=\"253\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/m_1AYVaByOs\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In case you can&#8217;t make our the slurred and mumbled lyrics, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yuksrus.com\/holidays_christmas_song.html#parody12\" target=\"_blank\">here they are<\/a> (along with other Christmas parodies, some of dubious taste). Thanks, Jim.<\/p>\n<p>This next song has graced the pages of this blog before, but it&#8217;s clearly an undying classic and especially apropos in light of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slashgear.com\/now-the-tsa-can-force-you-to-go-through-the-body-scanner-22419599\/\" target=\"_blank\">latest TSA news<\/a> &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2Qdb6wC0Iz4\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Grandma Got Molested at the Airport&#8221;<\/a>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"450\" height=\"253\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/2Qdb6wC0Iz4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Finally I&#8217;ll leave you with a fave of another generation, Walt Kelly&#8217;s, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zb_W_JP5kgc\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>&#8220;Deck Us All With Boston Charlie&#8221;<\/strong><\/a> (which, BTW, I can sing on demand, without any form of chemical encouragement. Be very glad I&#8217;m merely typing and not recording audio). <a href=\"http:\/\/www.straightdope.com\/columns\/read\/458\/what-are-the-lyrics-to-walt-kellys-classic-carol-deck-us-all-with-boston-charlie\" target=\"_blank\">Lyrics here<\/a> in case you want to sing along:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/zb_W_JP5kgc\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Merry Christmas One And All!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wasn&#8217;t going to post today, but Jim Bovard tempted me with his Christmas musical finds. And those led me into the darkest depths of YouTubery. If you want more traditional carols, check out the comment thread on yesterday&#8217;s post, where Christmas helpers have been posting links to sublime stuff. Warning: what follows here may not exactly fall into the &#8220;sublime&#8221; category. Jeff Foxworthy&#8217;s &#8220;12 Redneck Days of Christmas&#8221;: Next up is &#8220;Santa Claus is Tapping Your Phone&#8221; sung by what appears to be a bunch of drunken members of the Glastonbury Chamber of Commerce: In case you can&#8217;t make&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/25\/not-exactly-traditional-but\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Not exactly traditional, but &#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24099"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28467,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24099\/revisions\/28467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}