Frazz by Jef Mallett for December 02, 2024

A rather earthy reference. Relax young people, you can probably google it.

I’m 69 and I can’t recall this reference.

It’s annoying all right. Especially when you have to listen to it all night while stocking grocery store shelves. “Do you hear what I hear?” Agh! (But that was many years ago.)

Dr. Spaetzle is amazing!

“Better to have your enemies inside the tent p**ing out, than outside the tent p**ing in.”

LBJ came out better than the guy before him and he didn’t whizz on anyone…

I used to work at a big orange box store. They would hire temps for the holidays. One of them on her first day said, “Oh, Christmas music, I love Christmas music.” I told her, “After listening to the same tracks repeating over and over for 30 days, you’ll change your mind.”

Earworms!

One of the stations on my car radio started playing non-stop Christmas music about a week after Halloween. I just don’t push that button now.

A solid LBJ/J. Edgar Hoover take and timing…

So far haven’t visited a store so I have heard none of the music so far. Gotta go out today so I’ll be sure to turn of my hearing aids while I shop.

Thank you. I was alive then however clueless about what the quote might be.

Speaking if annoying, Can we please be DONE with stories about this smart alek kid and the school???

My mother would put on the Christmas albums Sept. 1, and keep them going pretty much 24/7 until March.

I hate Christmas music!

What we need now is “getting ready” music. “Waiting music.” Another couple weeks before the heavy-duty “it’s Christmas!” music. And let’s not forget Hanukkah and basic Winter music.

President Lyndon Johnson was colorful.

Maybe that’s what Trump is doing with his cabinet picks. He’d rather have them inside than outside.

Remember that scene early in The Lion King when Simba, Pumbaa, and Timon are getting ready to set out on their career of idleness and wastrelry, one of them wants to begin by singing a song, and another suggests “It’s a Small World”? The other 2 immediately recoil in horror with a “No, not that! Anything but that!”. Ya gotta know that line came from screenwriters who had to work in an office right next to the “Small World” ride at Disney World. And that had to be way worse than relentless Xmas music on the radio, which at least has 30-40 songs to play in rotation, instead of just the same one over and over and over and over and over and …….

Soon, there will be a tent full of people throwing sh!t everywhere.

Fortunately, there are many recorded versions of the holiday playlist. I found an Adeste Fideles online performed by a Brazilian metal-band singer that sounds like an operatic march. Or try Bruce Springsteen’s rendition of “Santa Claus is coming to Town”.

40 years in retail grocery, I don’t care for it at all. Music streaming platforms that I have, have been playing them since after Halloween, thank goodness I have playlists with none of them on my phone app.

I just remember LBJ picked up his dog by the ears!!! : (

I enjoyed hearing Christmas music for the past month. However, what I listened to was not any of the big popular versions.