MythTickle by Justin Thompson for December 17, 2010

This can go so many ways…

You know, I don’t remember a carol with the phrase “A Tail as Big as a Kite”. What am I missing?

I knew that pun would show up here sooner or later… :-) Why, Rudolph the Red knows rain, dear!

Except in California where the rainy season is two months late only when we don’t expect it.

Margaret said, 29 minutes ago

You know, I don’t remember a carol with the phrase “A Tail as Big as a Kite”. What am I missing?

From Carrie Underwood’s “Do You Hear What I Hear?”: Said the night wind to the little lamb Do you see what I see Way up in the sky little lamb Do you see what I see A star, a star Dancing in the night With a tail as big as a kite With a tail as big as a kite

Is that how Underwood butchered the song? there have been so many versions of it. :D

As much as I love Mythtickle, some of these puns are getting almost painful :P

The song “Do You Hear What I Hear” has been around far longer than Carrie Underwood has.

Thank you readerlady, I was just thinking the same thing. That sound and the little drummer boy are my two favorite Christmas songs ever, and they both have been around a LONG, LONG time. Since about 1962 for “Do You Hear What I Hear?” and “Little Drummer Boy” about 1945 or so.

Oh, please. Let us remember our classic carols far, far apart from Carrie Underwood (shudder).

You’re right. Thanks for the correction. The song does go back to 1962, as a response to the Cuban Missile Crisis. Noël Regney wrote the lyrics and Gloria Shayne Baker the music.

My favorite carol is still “Adeste, Fideles”. OK, my real favorite is “Of the Father’s Love Begotten”–although we also once had a modified version for Advent.