My pal Norma who lives in California — of course — just sent me this:
THE SAUCY SECRETS OF NO.1 YULETIDE CAROL
An author who claims to have found the real meaning behind one of Britain’s most famous carols says it isn’t about Christmas at all – it’s about sex. Writer Ray Wright, a grandfather-of-three, said The Twelve Days Of Christmas was changed by the Catholic Church to mask its mysterious origins in pagan mating rituals.
Ray, 75, reckons that after the medieval Church failed to ban the carol, it managed to jumble up the numbers to mask the dangerous sexual signals. … Read all
Norma also sent me this. What can I tell you …
Susan, that image is hilarious! Thanks for sharing it, and thanks for all the hard work you and BooMan do for all of us. We probably don’t express our appreciation nearly enough, and this is a good time of the year for that, so THANKS! I appreciate you guys every day even if I don’t say so. 🙂 Merry Everything to you and yours.
Thanks!
And thanks for being such a big part of the family.
I may dig up one more image.
From Valerie P., Kashi, their seven teenagers, and the other ones in the ‘hood, a merry, merry C’mas!
Hee! So THAT’S what covert raccoon operatives do in their spare time!
I had to sing Rocky Raccoon tonight, but that’s another story…
Ok Susan,that image has become my alltime holiday card– LMAO.
I have a couple cool relatives who’d find that card VERY funny … it’d be fun to send out.
I just did!
“Pagan mating rituals”?
Who’d’a thunk our sexual habits had been studied in such a Mutual-of-Omaha’s-Wild-Kingdom sort of way.
Didn’t realize that men generally have the energy to go a-leaping about just after orgasm. Or am I dating the wrong guys?
That holiday mishmash character reminds me of a tree some friends used to have up in their living room, just called a “holiday tree”. It stayed up all year and had ornaments on it for every occasion, snowflakes, bunnies, eggs, hearts, pumpkins, a little picture of Abraham Lincoln for President’s Day…
Thalia (of the Wiccan persuasion, in case you didn’t get the reference.)
…or a sports event on ESPN that’s already started, you’ll get that leapin’ thing happening. 🙂
Good one. I was wondering who these fellow gender mates of mine were. About all I can muster is a silly grin. “12 silly grinners a grinnin'”….I guess that doesn’t roll off the tongue like “12 lords a leapin'”…..
I think Mr Ray, at 75, has way too much time on his hands and is deep into memories of himself as a young man.
any number of pipers and drummers is about sex, sooner or later.
That was the title of this image. Kind of silly and cute.
AND Happy Holidays to everyone!
As a special Christmas gift I want to bring you a link to make your “War Against Christmas” day!
Click on the link and scroll down to the bottom of luaptifer’s ePluribus Media diary for a very special message from the Republican party to everyone… lol
You’ll regret being naughty.
Maybe not today,
maybe not tomorrow,
but soon,
and for the rest of your life.
that bit on the song was believable till this part:
Leaping? Afterwards?
Need I say more? This does not compute. Enough said.
Perhaps they lept when the population of the planet was lower. Maybe they don’t leap anymore due to over population and mother nature says, “Enough of this nonsense”, and immediately puts them into a deep sleep before they leap on some other lady dancing.
I know I’m commenting a little late but, hey, it’s Christmas and I was a little busy. The article about the song gave me chills. I’m over 50 (yes, I admit it) and when I was very young, I learned the 12 days of Christmas for a show at school. I was practicing at home and my grandmother heard me. She said it was very much like a song she heard when she was a little girl, but her version went:
“On the first day of May, Mr. Trulove sent to me…”
The partridge in the pear tree was there, so were the french hens and turtle doves, but she remembered (and here’s where I get the chills) “four colly birds.” Now, up until reading this article, I figured she just remembered it wrong, but… whoa! She couldn’t really remember the verses above 5 gold rings.
She had to have learned it more than 100 years ago since she was born in 1888. How’s that for a weird Christmas Day finish!