>>>>Christmas songs are usually played to get people into a nice mood, but appearantly you react differently. Have you considered seeing a shrink? (Duck!)
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>>>>NB! Happy Christmas, war is over. <vbg>
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>>>It'll just be starting if you make comments like that! :-)
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>>>BTW compare "Happy Christmas, war is over" with "Screwball was a racehorse" - practically the same tune.
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>>Interesting. When Peter, Paul and Mary recorded it, it was 'Stewball'. Has it morphed into 'Screwball' over there?
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>Oh, is it? I don't know. Bit just before my time - only ever heard it a few times on the radio and such so never caught the title properly perhaps. Not to nit-pick put it's the tune I was more concerned with ct "Merry Christmas, bosanova"
I wasn't being facetious. I can see how it could morph over time. Anyway, there is a reason why the two songs sound so similar. Supposedly, Lennon deliberately lifted the tune from 'Stewball'. Why? I have no idea.
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>>>>>Yeah, he'd do for a start, but that wouldn't stop the song from being played ad nauseum. Especially when you walk in a pub at the start of December and it's playing!
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>>>>>>Noddy Holder?
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>>>>>>>Every time I hear Slade's "So here it is, merry Christmas..." I want to kill someone!
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>>>>>>>>It seems many Brits agree with you on holiday music torture:
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/12/14/christmas_music_torture/>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>It is one thing to hear the music continually while shopping - after all, a customer can leave when the noise is too much or just plain aggravating. However, employees are forced to listen. The same could be said though for Rap, Top40, ... :o) Nothing is worse than shopping in a store where the music is so loud it is painful. I say stop all music in stores period! No more background noise! :o)
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>>>>>>>>>>My favorite gifts:
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>>>>>>>>>I got three good things on that day:
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>>>>>>>>>1) nothing in form of actual presents, good.
>>>>>>>>>2) a nice chunk of work landed on my disk, so I had something to concentrate on and wait for the hype to pass, good.
>>>>>>>>>3) in the evening, the hype actually passed.
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>>>>>>>>>Now to the New Year. You don't have to believe in it, it works regardless.
