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Comments on 'Pretentious? Nous?'
anonymous [11-Dec-06, 20:51]
In my local Tesco, on the run-up to Christmas they have taken to piping Christmas songs into the store. You know the sort of thing - Pogues, Slade, John Lennon etc. and it struck me that I 've never been in a store where they've piped in Tom Waits 'Christmas Card from a hooker in Minneapolis'! Come on guys - what's the worst that could happen?
Richard Carter [11-Dec-06, 22:32]
Nor There Ain't No Santa Claus on the Evenin' Stage by Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band. Those Tesco bods are so clueless.
anonymous [15-Dec-06, 13:22]

Thank you !!! I've been searching for pickled quails eggs for ages now, but aside from a local Farmer's Market, they don't seem to exist !

They're beautiful - try it today, not pretentious in the slightest !
Nite Owl (on the day shift) [17-Dec-06, 18:42]
How about 'Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer' by Wounded John Scott Cree? a classic in aybody's book!
Nite Owl at Xmas [23-Dec-06, 11:26]

I heard the most rediculous Xmas song ever on a music channel:

It was the Christmas Ketchup Song (you know, the one that goes 'the boogie & the bwiddly beep' etc). Basically, they had just overdubbed sleigh bells on to the original!

The possibilities are endless...other candidates could include Yellow Brick Road by the Cap'n, or Ring of Fire by Johnny Cash!

Any other suggestions? 
Richard Carter [23-Dec-06, 13:39]
Do you remember the Christmas duet Wizzard did with the Wombles in the Seventies? I Wish It Could Be a Wombling Christmas Every Day. Do you see what they did there? They took a big Christmas hit from a previous year and inserted the word Wombling into it. Damn, those marketing types are clever!
John Scot Cree [24-May-07, 21:29]

Hi the kind comments of Nite Owl (on the day shift) [17-Dec-06, 18:42] have only just come to my attention.  Please thank Night Owl

best

 John

Richard Carter [24-May-07, 22:01]
Have done so.
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