[extropy-chat] christmas music

[Spike]

I do not have an extropic answer to this problem:
around christmas, all you hear is christmas music,
for a two solid months, from just before Halloween
until just after New Years, and it drives me CRAZY.
The real problem is that there aren't enough different
songs, so they play the saaaammme ooooonnnnes 
over and over and over and over and every yahoo has a 
slightly different version of the same old thing.  But 
the real problem is that in the shopping malls, they
have instrumental versions, and you can't help
thinking the words!  Just try: you can't do it.  
Try to not think of the words to Jingle Bells next 
time you hear it, and good luck.

The next biggest problem is that the words are
absurd, the ones you cannot help thinking of, since
we are all hypnotized and thought-controlled to think
of those words whenever we hear the tunes, and buy stuff.

Consider the words to the little drummer boy for instance.
OK now, first of all, drums do not go rumpapum pum, they
go rattatat tat.  Secondly, what of the ox and lamb?  What
exactly is included in "keeping time?"  Were the ox and
lamb gently swaying to the beat?  Friends, that kinda thing
creeps me out.  I form a mental image like something
outta Hitchcock.  So it is a bit unclear at best, but in
any case, keeping time is not something I want to see a
bunch of goddam livestock doing anywhere near a newborn.
He would have nightmares until well past adolescence.

And that bit about making a snowman and pretending he
Parson Brown.  They are holding a running conversation with 
a pile of SNOW, fer cryin out loud.  Someone has put 
angel dust in their stockings you can be sure.

spike