"It's The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year"

[mac56]

Anyone familiar with this song?

Once and for all: what are the "scary ghost stories" associated with Christmas? Idoan geddit.

[MissMillie]

1. I don't know the scary ghost stories associated w/ Christmas

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2urlriwjcg

unless we're talking about The Nightmare Before Christmas.

[ThomCat]

2. Only Dickens

:shrug:

[redqueen]

3. Yup...

that's what I think of.

[Bicoastal]

4. "It's the Most Mind-Numbing Song Of The Year"

God, how I loathe it...

[elfrangel]

5. I have to disagree....

The most mind-numbing song for the season is Sir McCartney's "Simply Having A Wonderful Christmas Time".


Agh!! Earworm!!!!! x(

[SacredCow]

6. I hate that one, too... but "Christmas Shoes" is my top offender...

And I haven't heard it this year!!!!!! :applause:

[MorningGlow]

8. OMG that one is a

:puke: :puke: :puke: of epic proportions. I run away screaming when that ones comes on in a store.

[elfrangel]

9. Okay...having a moment here....

I don't recognize the song title. I'll have to go look that up.

[SacredCow]

10. It's not mind-numbing, exactly....

just sanctimonious beyond all bounds.

[mac56]

13. Actually, mine is "Must Be Santa".

"Who's got a beard that's long and white?
Santa's got a beard that's long and white!
Who comes around on a special night?
Santa comes around on a special night!
Special night?
Special night!
Long and white?
Long and white?
Must be Santa!
Must be Santa!
Must be Santa, Santa Claus..."

Repeat till :puke:

[MorningGlow]

7. It's a Victorian tradition

Apparently Dickens wrote a lot of them--other authors too.

"Ghost stories were an integral part of the Victorian Christmas. Read around the fire, they were a popular home amusement in those households that could not afford the expense of the theatre or concert going. Many stories were specifically written for such evening entertainment. The ghostly tales of M.R. James (1862-1936), for instance, were originally composed for reading on Christmas Eve at King’s College, Cambridge; they were first published as Ghost Stories of an Antiquary in 1904. Jerome K. Jerome (1859-1927) wrote "whenever five or six English-speaking people meet around a fire on Christmas Eve they start telling each other ghost stories"

The tradition of the Christmas ghost story (albeit probably not now told round a roaring fire) is still with us, as epitomized by the enduring popularity of Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, (1843) with its many adaptations on film, television and stage."

http://special.lib.gla.ac.uk/exhibns/month/current.html

[mac56]

14. Finally! An explanation!

Thank you! :applause: I never knew that.

[MorningGlow]

17. De nada

Just another strange bit of trivia rattling around in my cranium. The Google helped with the details, as always. :hi:

[Tommy_Carcetti]

11. I never understood it....

Other than the ghosts in A Christmas Carol, perhaps.

Meh. The most wonderful time of the year for me growing up was family vacations to Florida. Christmas was nice but not the highlight of the year for me.

[bif]

12. "Little Drummer Boy" & "12 Days of Xmas"are way worse.

[graywarrior]

15. I only like that song when Staples uses it in there back to school ad.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

16. Before you die... you see FIVE GOLDEN RINGS!