> > > Autumn in April! What a ghastly thought. But I suppose spring in October would make up for it.
> > > Howard
> >
> > That's not so odd to me as the fact that Christmas takes place in the summer there. Man, some of the carols have gotta be *strange* down there in the southern hemisphere. ;-)
> >
> > -- codeman"i'm dreaming of a green christmas?"38
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> Never really thought about it much. It seems like Christmas carols go into two categories, the older or religious ones like "O Come All Ye Faithful", and the (forgive me) schmaltzy recent American ones like "White Christmas" or (eek) "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer." Nobody actually *sings* them, and we don't have any tradition of going carolling (if anybody does at all, and it isn't just a movie thing). Back in the days when I was a church-goer, which admittedly is quite a long time ago now, I used to like the sorts of Christmas songs sung at church for the season. The other kind you only hear on cheesy canned-noise systems at supermarkets and shopping malls, which is just one reason I tend not to go within miles of a mall during December if I can help it.
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> Brunnen-"I fear what it might be doing to the people who *work* there, hearing that stuff all day long"G

"Dashing through the grass,
In a one-horse open buggy.
O'er the fields we go,
Laughing all the way."

Naw, that doesn't work.

"Buggy bells ring,
Are you listening?
In the lane,
Rain is glistening."

That isn't much better, but it rhymes a little.

The truth is, we don't get white Christmases in Tennessee very often. About ever second or third decade, I guess. I remember one Christmas down in Cannon County when there was a heavy fog that frosted the grass and trees about half an inch thick. The cedars were beautiful. It was really a white Christmas. Then the sun came out.
Howard