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Favorite Sacred Christmas Carol
Favorite Pagan Devil Secular Christmas Carol
Beverage of choice
A hot dish to share with everyone (RESIST THE URGE TO INNUENDO)
What you’ll be giving your Secret Santa
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In the Bleak Midwinter
I’ve Got My Love to Keep Me Warm
Special Hot Chocolate (enhanced with Bailey’s and/or peppermint schnapps)
Shrimp and Grits
I always forget about Secret Santa, so I will regift whatever my Secret Santa gives me
Nice choices. I like In the Bleak Midwinter, too. Baby it’s cold outside!
Shrimp and Grits
FILED UNDER: TODAY IN PRAWN
Or TODAY IN PONE.
TODAY IN PRAWN PONE.
TODAY IN…no, yours was the best. I concede.
FILED UNDER: TODAY IN PWN
ALL YOUR GRITS ARE BELONG TO US.
Favorite Sacred Christmas Carol
Hot Buttered Rum
Favorite Pagan Devil Secular Christmas Carol
Hot Buttered Rum
Beverage of choice
Hot Buttered Rum
A hot dish to share with everyone (RESIST THE URGE TO INNUENDO)
Hot Buttered Rum
What you’ll be giving your Secret Santa
Hot Buttered Rum
I just had hot buttered rum for the first time a couple of nights ago. It was hard to forget the fact that I was drinking butter. Also, I burned my tongue.
The drinking butter aspect is exactly what I like about it. Sorry about the burnt tongue, though. On the upside, you now have the gift of speaking in burnt tongues. It’s an apocalyptic thing.
I knew it! Only charismatic devil worshipers speak in burnt tongues.
The hot buttered rum overwhelmed my thought process. I’ll try again.
What Child is This
Baby It’s Cold Outside (new date rape thread?)
Hot Buttered Rum
Apfel Kuchen (my mom’s special recipe)
Tullamore Dew
Coventry Carol
Snow by Loreena McKennitt & Archibald Lampman
Homemade Cherry Bounce!
My Wife the Energizer Bunny’s Christmas Pudding made from her Scottish Grandmother’s Recipe. Charles Dickens never had it so good.
A kiss.
Yay! A comment from Smaller Manhattans! All the cool kids hang out at Korrektiv. One time, we a visit from B-Movie Catechism.
Conventry Carol! Excellent choice. I posited that as the Official Christmas Carol of Korrektiv last year.
You know, there are answers, and there are the answers you provide the Korrektiv Kollektiv:
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen, for obvious reasons
Fairytale of New York, for obvious reasons
Champagne, for celebratory reasons
Three cheese lasagna from Assenti’s Pasta, for traditional reasons
Bourbon, for entirely selfish reasons
I don’t celebrate Christmas.
Now, now, now. That’s only because you missed the memo about the Office Party. Please, you simply must come. We’re hoping you’ll lead the caroling.
I don’t really, either. I usually just sort of muddle through somehow. Seasonal Affective Disorder and all.
I would like to see a graph of the correlation between living in really cold places and Seasonal Affective Disorder.
But not on this thread! This thread is for the office party.
In the Bleak Midwinter …
Ooh! I think I just found a topic for my dissertation! “Seasonal Affective Disorder as Manifested in 19th Century English Carols.”
Sorry, my carol should have read “Malaise Ye Sorry Gentlemen”
Oh oh tidings of sorrow and gloom,
Sorrow and gloom,
Oh oh tidings of sorrow and gloom.
There’s nothing but dismay.
Sorry ExPat, it’s been done. I think SAD and lit crit are twins separated at birth. Here, have some diet coke.
What’s a holiday for if it’s not going to yield dissertation fodder?
My presence among all these down and out, poormouthed Scandos will undoubtedly skew the results.
JOB
Oh come oh come Emmanuel ( I know I know not officially a Christmas carol but I can’t help it it makes me cry). Also, What Child is This
Santa Baby by Eartha Kitt…..nuf said
Baileys and also champagne ( okay so it’s hard to pick a favorite drink sue me )
My husbands homemade bread when still warm with various cheeses
None of your business.
This is good. I was worried I wasn’t getting invited to any Christmas parties this year. I’ll be back…
I’m starting to think that “Secret Santa” has a different connotation from what I’m used to.
RESIST THE URGE TO INNUENDO
It’s not technically innuendo. And whoops missed that memo. Too much baileys AND champagne.
Or to be more exact, I thought the memo applied only to the “hot foods” question….
I’ve ruined the whole don’t innuendo thing now haven’t I.
Not at all, although I suspect you’ll be receiving a memo from HR.
Apparently we now all know why I don’t get invited to the office parties anymore.
“This business is no longer any of your business.” Actualy, the “RESIST” plea was aimed at Expat, who seemed to be thinking you were insinuating something…
oh. okay. just ignore the man behind the curtain then and pretend I did not say anything OR have too much to drink at the office Christmas party….
Please return the lampshade on your way out. Security has been given your 20.
Matt will now have to claim he does not know me.
We have popped the corks at midnight…
Banish Drunk Mel, and banish all the world.
He does that with everyone, Mel.
P.S.: If you need the last word, I can enable one more level of comment threading.
‘Secret Santa’ is my new favorite euphemism.
It was a secret, a secret… oh nevermind.
Secret Santa Gift ( following rules as outlined in memo although slightly unclear although apparently only to me )
A snow globe. I know I left but I’m back just making photo copies.
Sacred
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DpCJY6QEMI&feature=related
Tied for the profane
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hMCKiVTXAc&feature=fvsr
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUK4pTQXrQQ&feature=related
Drinks
Rich Winter Ales with fellow mystics
Calvados with Mrs. Mystic
Hot dish
Lasagna
Gift
I am freeing minds and giving out red pills to whomever I can as fast I can. Santa wears red for a reason. He who has ears let him hear.
Gotta love the first pick for profane. Thanks, CM.
Favorite Sacred Christmas Carol: Wexford Carol
Favorite Pagan Devil Secular Christmas Carol: Not a favorite, but definitely it’s the Wham! one that most stands out to me: “Last Christmas I gave you my heart. The very next day, you gave it away. This year… blah blah blah…I’ll give it to someone special. …”
It’s that “special’ on the end there that gets me.
Beverage of choice: NOG!
A hot dish to share with everyone (RESIST THE URGE TO INNUENDO): I really was just thinking the other day that I need a signature dish. On the whole, people don’t request my cooking. But if I were a dish, I think I’d be a cold dish, like aspic.
What you’ll be giving your Secret Santa: Choice cuts from my frozen hog (not innuendo).
TO MATT…oh very sneaky. Thank you kindly Expat. But I’m leaving and I’m taking my cheese platter!
I came for WHAM! Leaving satisfied.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8gmARGvPlI
Happy Kwanzaa, honkies.
Cruel winter!
It was all about Andrew.
Regifting, ’80s style.
Wham! That is awesome. That “special” is indeed special! Thanks, Duffy!
Favorite Sacred Christmas Carol: O Holy Night
Favorite Pagan Devil Secular Christmas Carol: White Christmas
Beverage of choice: Hot Buttered Rum, no doubt
A hot dish to share with everyone: my famous artichoke dip (one of those Midwestern recipes, the secret to which is always an insane amount of mayonnaise, cream cheese, or both)
What you’ll be giving your Secret Santa: besides a heart attack (from the dip), definitely Emmet Otter’s Jug Band Christmas
Yay Emmet! Muppets do O Henry!
Favorite Sacred Christmas Carol: “Lo How a Rose E’re Blooming” (preferably in German, though I don’t understand a word of it), with Sufjan Stevens’s “Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07htIT4-YZ0) a close second, only because it’s not really a Christmas Carol, even if he includes it in his CD as one.
Favorite Pagan Devil Secular Christmas Carol: I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas (I will add Dominic the Donkey as the Pagan Devil Secular Christmas Carol I most love to hate)
Beverage of choice: Hot Cider
A hot dish to share with everyone (RESIST THE URGE TO INNUENDO): Buñuelos (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bu%C3%B1uelo)
What you’ll be giving your Secret Santa: I’m Colombian. I don’t acknowledge no Santa.
We ate these growing up “frittelle” I saw it on the buneulos link.
Dude, buneulos are standard Mexican dessert out here.
Well, in Colombia we don’t really have them for dessert. See Wikipedia:
In Colombia they are not sweet and are made with a small curd white cheese and formed into doughy balls then fried golden brown. It is a traditional Christmas dish, served along with natillas and “manjar blanco”.
I think maybe I’ll try my hand at making my own this Christmas, though deep-frying scares the heck out of me. I do make a pretty solid version of my great-grandma’s natilla, so I can bring that too.
Favorite Sacred Christmas Carol
‘Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence’
Favorite Pagan Devil Secular Christmas Carol
(If pop songs count)
‘Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)’ – Darlene Love x Phil Spector
(If pop songs don’t count)
‘Carol of the Bells’
Beverage of choice
Eggnog. Un-spiked is fine, if I have to serve as designated driver.
A hot dish to share with everyone
Ratatouille with rosemary
What you’ll be giving your Secret Santa
(If my ‘Secret Santa’ can take it)
Alphonse, Issues One and Two
(If my ‘Secret Santa’ is of more delicate sensibility)
The Human Wisdom of Saint Thomas, by Josef Pieper
Wow, someone with authority took the time (and the pity) to correct my sloppy HTML for the Saint Thomas link. Fulton Sheen’s chalkboard angel?
Whoever you are, thank you!
It’s always been a dream of mine to have my own fixer.
With mid-level power comes additional responsibility for which there will be no adjustments in compensation.
You’re giving the impression: (a) that others might be reading – I’ll remove this from my facebook page if I can, but I haven’t managed to remove a facebook ‘like’ so far, and the fact that you’re suggesting it means that no-one else is likely to be reading anyway; (b) that I am writing the other posts, or perhaps only the more vulgar ones, which is meant to scare me into thinking others are reading; (c) that others, geographically closer, might be writing some of the posts – I don’t think that’s true either.
Although, I admit I’ve started to write like I have a slightly wider audience.
Nothing to do with me
Favorite Sacred Christmas Carol: I don’t like Christmas Carols in general. I prefer Gregorian Chant. (syllogism: I’m Irish. I attend a predominantly Irish parish. Therefore, I don’t sing at Mass.) But if I had to pick one, it would be Adeste Fideles – in the original Latin.
Favorite Pagan Devil Secular Christmas Carol: I tolerate sacred Christmas Carols. Pagan ones turn my stomach – and not because they’re pagan, but because they all seem to try so hard. But again, if I must: Frosty the Snowman, Gene Autry’s version only, thank you.
Beverage of choice: Two or more than three Martinis made with Plymouth Gin, a dash of bitters, and extra glup of vermouth. Two olives. (The three will place you squarely in the ravaged dead zone of Morning After Gin Shakes (MAGS) – so at that point, why stop at three? If it’s going to go bust on you, make it a big bust…
A hot dish to share with everyone (RESIST THE URGE TO INNUENDO)(Inuendo from the Greek – ῾ηνεύηνδειν – which means “to come to or approach things from the back side or rearward”) – My wife’s buttered scones and/or oyster stew.
What you’ll be giving your Secret Santa: Sorry, my brother in law might, just might, be reading this.
I couldn’t find a version in Latin, but I did find Buble!
My daughter, eldest, recieved this fellow’s work as an early Christmas present. It sent me scurrying for my basement office where I busied myself transcribing hours of interview material, the overlarge earphones serving well to block out all vestiges of artificial Christmas joy.
JOB
Please explain your reaction in detail. Seriously I would like to understand this insight.
I have similar reactions to certain tunes, but not all.
Favorite Sacred Christmas Carol: Hark the Herald Angels Sing
Favorite Pagan Devil Secular Christmas Carol: Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire….
Beverage of choice: Diet Coke (sorry)
A hot dish to share with everyone (RESIST THE URGE TO INNUENDO): lutefisk
What you’ll be giving your Secret Santa: warm wishes and a wish for better luck next time in the office secret santa draw
Happy advent all!
IC
I thought we were supposed to resist the urge to innuendo on the hot dish?
You saw this coming. You planned it.
Christmas eve: O Holy Night
Christmas day: O Come All Ye Faithful
Boxing day: Good King Wenceslaus
Feliz Navidad
Slightly chilled beaujolais noveau
Baked brie with cranberries
A lump of coal. It was a bad year at the office.
As part of my overall scheme for social domination, I’m fashionably late to the party.
Favorite Sacred Christmas Carol: Angels We Have Heard On High
Favorite Pagan Devil Secular Christmas Carol: Michael Buble’s new version of Mariah Carey’s All I Want For Christmas Is You. SHUT UP.
Beverage of choice: Hot Spiced Cider
A hot dish to share with everyone (RESIST THE URGE TO INNUENDO): Tamales, baby!
What you’ll be giving your Secret Santa: Something I grabbed last minute from the clutter of my house, because I always forget about these things until it’s almost too late. That’s why I’m always out shopping on Dec. 24, and wondering why all these other people are getting in my way.
Merry Christmas to the Kollectiv!
And to you and yours, Mrs. D. I confess I felt a certain, not entirely unpleasant twinge when Buble crooned, “I won’t even wish for snow.”
Favorite Sacred Christmas Carol:
“Joy to the World,” which I’ve just learned likely comes to us from Handel’s Messiah, specifically, Comfort Ye, My People.” Although the tempo is much too slow, here is the great Swedish tenor Nicolai Gedda with the even greater conductor Otto Klemperer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3ZaoZPOoD0&feature=related
Favorite Pagan Devil Secular Christmas Carol: Really? Yeesh … to play along, I choose “Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas,” written by the great Hugh Martin, who died just this last spring at the age of 91. Originally written for the film “Meet Me In St. Louis”, the 21 year old Miss Garland refused to sing the song as written, saying it was too dark. Eventually Martin came around and altered the lyrics. For example, these original lines do seem a bit bleak:
Have yourself a merry little Christmas, it may be your last,
Next year we may all be living in the past …
The revised version goes like this:
Have yourself a merry little Christmas, let your heart be light,
Next year all our troubles will be out of sight.
Still a little bittersweet, but in the right measure. Or at least that’s my take.
Here’s the version in Meet Me in St. Louis:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0NmxxBmFV0&feature=related
Of course it’s been covered many times since, including a fine version by Chrissie Hynde and The Pretenders: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQdYrV0JNIE&feature=related
Chrissie Hynde is, of course, better known for writing the theme song for Rush Limbaugh’s show, but she wrote a pretty decent Christmas song herself called 2000 Miles: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmbchbm7arY&feature=related
How am I doing for “Pagan Devil Secular”?
Beverage of choice: I’m drinking an Alaskan Winter Ale right now, so I’ll go with that.
A hot dish to share with everyone: Pekin Duck
1 Duck
2 cups boiling-hot water
1 tablespoon kosher salt
1 teaspoon black pepper
What you’ll be giving your Secret Santa: Silly Putty
I hope you’ll prepare it using the duck press you requisitioned for your department. Still not sure we should have let you expense that.
Wow! “Wowie Wow Wow Wow!” as Christopher Walkin says … and thanks for linking to Sur La Table, one of my favorite stores, there being one right down the street at the Pike Place Public Market.
I’ll mix the receipt in with the ones from Adobe and Create Space … Thanks, SE!
Ramping up my Pagan Devil S
ecular credentials, here’s the NPR segment where I learned everything I know about Hugh Martin and “Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas”:
http://www.npr.org/2010/11/19/131412133/the-story-behind-have-yourself-a-merry-little-christmas
And for Mrs. D.:
Thanks, man! My siblings and I are doing the Secret Santa thing for the first time this year, and I dropped broad hints that I would like this album from whoever’s doing the gift giving.
My grandmother taped “Meet Me In St. Louis” off cable many years ago and send it to our family, so I think I heard Judy Garland sing “Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas” before I ever heard it on the radio. It’s still the definitive version for me. Amy Grant, eat your heart out.
WHERE IS JONATHAN WEBB?
I feel like he’s circling the parking lot, sighing, trying to decide if he needs to at least make an appearance.
He’s probably here, in the moment of silence between each reply.