My Christmas Day was made when, driving over to John and Gail Miller’s for Christmas dinner in early afternoon and hearing the last part of Handel’s Messiah on the radio, I discovered the chorus for part of it was, “Oh, we like sheep.”
Pictured: sheep
Oh, you do, do you?
Of course, I know the real lyric was “Oh we, like sheep” – punctuation matters! But I heard it the other way.
I wanted to. It was much funnier that way. And in all fairness, it did sound as if they were singing that they liked sheep.
I had a very good Christmas; hope you did too.
Dinner was great – turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, gravy, green bean casserole, the works. John’s mother and aunt were there, as well as their friend Lynn Kaczor, who was supposed to be off visiting family. As I understand it, weather happened.
After dinner John’s mom and aunt took off. We watched the Alistair Sim A Christmas Carol, which wasn’t bad (the story’s not my favorite.)
The highlight of the afternoon was when Gail gave their cat Archie some of the home-grown catnip Lynn brought. Archie gobbled it right down. Then he dove in and rolled in it, getting big chunks all over his fur. Then he rolled on his back and rubbed it all over his big round face with his paws.
He looked like a 1980′s waterbed magnate who’d spilled his cocaine. It was great.
After the movie I went over to Steve and Kathy Kubica’s. ASFS stalwart Bill McClellan was there when I arrived. We were later joined by Craig Chrissinger and Jessica Coyle, then Kennard and Kristen Wilson – giving us the two co-chairs for Bubonicon 42 together in the room at the same time, a clear security risk. Lucky for us no provocateurs staged a terror attack.
We watched Castle, some Muppet shorts from the Web, and opened presents. Then we watched a Rifftrax of some old Christmas short films. All of which was mightily enjoyable.
So: good day, good food, good fun, good people. I got back to my animals and my “tree” – a foot-tall conical rosemary bush in a pot – just before midnight. An excellent Christmas Day, I’d say.
Hope you had a good one, too.
I really love and appreciate my friends, both human and animal. Thanks for being there for me. That really is my best Christmas present, always.
… consider all the time Shari Lewis spent with her hand up Lamb Chop’s ass, and the goofy grin always on the face of the latter…
And those Muppet shorts – were they boxers or briefs? Maybe some of each. (Does Kermit wear tighty-greenies?)
Billy & the boys have shown up at our Nativity scene again this year (Tom Rogers was very pleased to see Anastasia) – as well as the Predator, calling a temporary truce with a xenomorph. The moose is there again, and this time he’s accompanied by a squirrel.
Pictures at Facebook – I’ll see if I can upload the new ones to Flickr as well.
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Done.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/meowlin-stl/
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Thanks for the links to your Nativity pics! Of course it’s not Christmas without The Guardians. Or The Tick. Or, of course, Triceratops…
I wonder if there are Venture Bros. action figures yet? Brock Samson would be a fitting addition. As of course would Doc, Hank, and Dean Venture.
Q: “Is there a non-creepy way to like sheep?”
A: Medium-rare.
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Good point! Also roasted.
Still I was talking about liking sheep more than just “liking” them.
So this is in English? Why did I think the MESSIAH was in Latin or something else?
A friend and I who sang a lot of chorus together back in the day used to find “English words” in the Latin, German, etc. My favorite- and I can’t remember the song now, but it was in Latin- was “Dogs sing like Megadeath.”
Yep. The Messiah is an English Oratorio. Who knew?
I always reckoned it would be in Latin, myself. Never paid much attention to the words, which are often hard to make out anyway.
What else would a Kraut write, I suppose? especially one trying to suck up to the thoroughly German King George II of England?
Interesting example of cross-language masking there, Sara. Though mightn’t it be more appropriate had it said, “Megadeath sing like dogs”? (Cheap shot at Dave Mustaine, ladies and gentlemen!)
Check out the nativity pics again – somebody showed up from Tokyo tonight. Somebody big, green, and radioactive…
Now that i have Moose and Squirrel, I’m hoping to find Peabody & Sherman.
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