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bystander wrote:
Did you really have to post that video?
I think I'm going to be ill the rest of the holidays.

neufer wrote: Thanks, Bou-Bou. (I betcha didn't know about troll though.)

(Music, other) Archaic to sing (a refrain, chorus, etc.) or (of a refrain, etc.) to be sung in a loud hearty voice

2. troll - a partsong in which voices follow each other; one voice starts and others join in one after another until all are singing different parts of the song at the same time; "they enjoyed singing rounds"

neufer wrote: A better head her glorious body fits
Than his that shakes for age and feebleness:
What should I don this robe, and trouble you? - Titus Andronicus > Act I, scene I

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owlice wrote: It is most appropriate if Yogi acts feebly and slowly in all activities just like a weak, sick person.

owlice wrote:It is most appropriate if Yogi acts feebly and slowly in all activities just like a weak, sick person.

I should change that, shouldn't I? If you pick something out for me to use as a signature, I'll use it.

bystander wrote:

owlice wrote:
If you pick something out for me to use as a signature, I'll use it.

It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block. — Paul Gauguin

owlice wrote:
I do not find my work environment to be offensive, intimidating, hostile, or unwelcome.

Well...we can fix that Let's sing:

neufer wrote: Well...we can fix that Let's sing:

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bystander wrote:... J a t w ...

orin stepanek wrote:You lost me

jman wrote:OK, new song - new twist:

J B J B...

bystander wrote:... J a t w ...

orin stepanek wrote:As in
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xcjbpezjoj4

bystander wrote: No, as in
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUyQdolNop0

bystander wrote:

jman wrote:OK, new song - new twist:

J B J B...

... J a t w ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jingle_Bells wrote:

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<<"Jingle Bells" is one of the best-known and commonly sung winter songs in the world. It was written by James Lord Pierpont (1822–1893) and published under the title "One Horse Open Sleigh" in the autumn of 1857. Even though it is commonly referred to as a Christmas song, it was actually written and sung for Thanksgiving. It was mistakenly branded as a Christmas song because being extremely popular at Thanksgiving, it was sung again around Christmas. "Jingle Bells" was the first song broadcast from space, in a Christmas-themed prank by Gemini 6 astronauts Tom Stafford and Wally Schirra. While in space on December 16, 1965, they sent this report to Mission Control: "We have an object, looks like a satellite going from north to south, probably in polar orbit... I see a command module and eight smaller modules in front. The pilot of the command module is wearing a red suit...." The astronauts then produced a smuggled harmonica and sleighbells and broadcast a rendition of "Jingle Bells." The harmonica, shown to the press upon their return, was a Hohner "Little Lady", a tiny harmonica approximately one inch long, by 3/8 of an inch wide.

James Lord Pierpont originally composed his song in 1850. A plaque commemorating the "birthplace" of "Jingle Bells" adorns the side of a building in Medford, Massachusetts. Pierpont wrote the song there, at the former Simpson Tavern, now 19 High Street in the center of Medford Square. According to the Medford Historical Society, the song was inspired by the town's popular sleigh races during the 1800s.

"Jingle Bells" was originally copyrighted with the name "One Horse Open Sleigh" on September 16, 1857. It was reprinted in 1859 with the revised title of "Jingle Bells, or the One Horse Open Sleigh". Music historian James Fuld notes that "the word jingle in the title and opening phrase is apparently an imperative verb." However, it is commonly taken to mean a certain kind of bell. The melody as originally written follows the same pattern as Pachelbel's Canon, resembling the tune Jolly Old Saint Nicholas, which appeared about fifty years after "Jingle Bells".

"Jingle Bells" was first recorded by the Edison Male Quartette in 1898 on an Edison cylinder as part of a Christmas medley entitled "Sleigh Ride Party". In 1902, the Hayden Quartet recorded "Jingle Bells". In 1943, Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters recorded "Jingle Bells" which sold over a million copies.>>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Pierpont_%28musician%29 wrote:

<<James Lord Pierpont (April 25, 1822 - August 5, 1893) was an American songwriter, arranger, organist, and composer, best known for writing and composing Jingle Bells in 1857. Pierpont was born on April 25, 1822 in Boston, Massachusetts. His father, Reverend John Pierpont (1785–1866), was a pastor of the Hollis Street Unitarian Church in Boston. James was the uncle of the financier and banker John Pierpont Morgan. His father Rev. John Pierpont was also an abolitionist and a poet. In 1832, James was sent to a boarding school in New Hampshire. He wrote a letter to his mother about riding in a sleigh through the December snow. In 1836, James ran away to sea aboard a ship called "The Shark".

James married Millicent Cowee, the daughter of Farwell Cowee and Abigail Merriam, in the late 1840s. In 1849, James Pierpont left his wife and children with his father in Massachusetts to open a business in San Francisco, California during the 1849 Gold Rush. He also worked as a photographer. His business failed after his goods burned in a fire. On March 27, 1852, James Pierpont published his composition "The Returned Californian", based on his experiences in San Francisco:

• "Oh, I'm going far away from my Creditors just now,
  I ain't the tin to pay 'em and they're kicking up a row;
  I ain't one of those lucky ones that works for 'Uncle Sam,'
  There's no chance for speculation and the mines ain't worth a ('d--') Copper.
  
  There's my tailor vowing vengeance and he swears he'll give me Fitts,
  And Sheriff's running after me with pockets full of writs;
  And which ever way I turn, I am sure to meet a dun,
  So I guess the best thing I can do, is just to cut and run.
  
  Oh! I wish those 'tarnel critters that wrote home about the gold
  Were in the place the Scriptures say 'is never very cold;'
  For they told about the heaps of dust and lumps so mighty big,
  But they never said a single word how hard they were to dig.
  
  So I went up to the mines and I helped to turn a stream,
  And got trusted on the strength of that delusive golden dream;
  But when we got to digging we found 'twas all a sham,
  And we who dam'd the rivers by our creditors were damn'd.
  
  Oh! I'm going far away but I don't know where I'll go,
  I oughter travel homeward but they'll laugh at me I know;
  For I told 'em when I started I was bound to make a pile,
  But if they could only see mine now I rather guess they'd smile.
  
  If of these United States I was the President,
  No man that owed another should ever pay a cent;
  And he who dunn'd another should be banished far away,
  And attention to the pretty girls is all a man should pay."

In 1853, James’ brother, the Rev. John Pierpont, Jr. (1819–1879), accepted a post with the Savannah, Georgia, Unitarian congregation. James followed, taking a post as the organist and music director of the church. To support himself, he also gave organ and singing lessons.

In 1856, his first wife Millicent died of tuberculosis. In August, 1857, James married Eliza Jane Purse, daughter of Savannah's mayor, Thomas Purse. She soon gave birth to the first of their children, Lillie. Pierpont's children by his first marriage remained in Massachusetts with their grandfather.

In August, 1857, his song "The One Horse Open Sleigh" was published. The song was originally composed for a Sunday school concert on Thanksgiving in Savannah, Georgia. In 1859, it was re-released with the title "Jingle Bells, or The One Horse Open Sleigh". The song was not a hit either time. The popularity of the song, however, grew with the passage of time to the point where it became one of the most popular and recognizable songs of the Christmas holiday.

In 1859, the Unitarian Church in Savannah had closed because of its abolitionist position, which was unpopular in the South. By 1860, Rev. John Pierpont, Jr. had returned to the North. James, however, stayed in Savannah with his second wife Eliza Jane, and at the beginning of the Civil War, joined the Isle of Hope Volunteers of the First Georgia Cavalry (later the Fifth Georgia Cavalry) of the Confederacy. Records indicate that he served as a company clerk.

He also wrote music for the Confederacy when it seceded from the Union, including "Our Battle Flag", "Strike for the South" and "We Conquer or Die." His father also saw military service as a chaplain with the Union Army stationed in Washington, D.C. and later worked for the U.S. Treasury Department. Pierpont and his father were on opposite sides during the Civil War.

In 1880, Pierpont's son, Dr. Juriah Pierpont, M.D., renewed the copyright on "Jingle Bells" but he never made much money from it. It took considerable effort to keep his father's name permanently attached to the song after the copyright expired. James Lord Pierpont died on August 5, 1893 in Winter Haven, Florida. At his request, he was buried in Laurel Grove Cemetery in Savannah beside his brother-in-law Thomas who had been killed in the first battle of Bull Run.>>

bystander wrote:

orin stepanek wrote:You lost me

jman wrote:OK, new song - new twist:

J B J B...

bystander wrote:... J a t w ...