'Santa Claus Is Coming To Get Me': Mental health charity sparks outrage with spoof Christmas carols

The Daily Mail (U.K.) ^ | December 20, 2007

[gondramB]

Wasn’t this a Fraiser episode..?

And did they even record the carols or just make up the names? I’d like to hear the carols.

[CindyDawg]

Yall see Larry the Cable guy”s (I wouldn’t call it ) Christmas Special? I thought it was really lame but the ending could hsve been very funny if it had not been so “today”

[Captainpaintball]

This is actually clever. Especially coming from a pretty much rag-tag bunch of mental health workers who photocopy a couple of pages 4 times a year for no one in particular.

[WOBBLY BOB]

Santa is the way he is due to an eating disorder. He’s not jolly, but really crying inside.

[philled]

In future editions, I hope this publication addresses the psychological affliction that is global warmism. The cover could have a picture of drowning bi-polar bears...

[Adder]

Are there any Christmas carols for the obsessively humorless?

Uh...”You’re a mean one, Mr. Grinch....”

[Manfred the Wonder Dawg]

That’s funny. I’m saving’ it for later, when they come for me a rubber suit :-)

[Rick.Donaldson]

I heard this stuff on the Bob & Tom show the other morning. What the hell is wrong with people? Don’t they get humor any more?

A midget walks into a bar....

he couldn’t buy a drink and left. His friend asked him what happened.

“The bartender said I was a little short....”

[PAR35]

The woman that complained clearly has issues. She needs to be institutionalized until she can be diagnosed and treated.

[WOBBLY BOB]

is that from “Hung for Christmas” album?

[Piranha]

That’s a very funny story.

I was an associate in a large NY law firm, and we were dealing with a difficult client in western Canada. As is the style in Vancouver, the executives of the firm would put their nicknames in quotes in the middle of their addresses, so I was writing a letter to (let’s say) S.H. “Dick” Smith.

I copied the partner in my firm on the letter, and I got it back in interoffice mail, with the “Dick” circled in red and his query, “Is this his real name?”

[boop]

"I have dealt with a disorder my whole life, and I’m not offended. I think the song titles are pretty funny. People need to lighten up."

Only someone truly crazy would be offended by these. I always like the joke about the dyslexic philosopher contemplating the existence of Dog. Only some religious nut would be upset by that.

[Dog Gone]

I don’t know where it came from, but I agree with the hanging part.

[Polonius]

Funny list ... too bad the whiners have to spoil all the fun.

[toldyou]

ROTFLOL!

[Dumb_Ox]

I respectfully suggest that you lighten up. You may think that being "outraged" by this makes you a better person, but it really only points out that you are humorless and sad little black hole in society.

How did you find outrage and humorlessness in my little comments? I'm just sick of a culture that thinks humor should involve crassness and deliberate insensitivity, that's all.

A certain level of manners is a sign of civilization. Perhaps you would see this objection more clearly if one of these songs were "Billy the Retarded Elf."

[PAR35]

Imagine a carol for the deaf and blind: do you hear what I hear? Do you see what I see?

I take it you don't sing "O FOR A THOUSAND TONGUES TO SING" very often.

Hear Him, ye deaf; His praise, ye dumb,
Your loosened tongues employ;
Ye blind, behold your Savior come,
And leap, ye lame, for joy.

And THEN it gets politically incorrect:

Awake from guilty nature’s sleep,
And Christ shall give you light,
Cast all your sins into the deep,
And wash the Æthiop white.

Charles Wes­ley

[doug from upland]

Here are my entries so far this year - http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1940145/posts

[Salamander]

I often wonder what little kids make of Harley’s new “Santa” commercials:

http://www.harley-davidson.com/gifts/gifts_main_ext.jsp?locale=en_US&bmLocale=en_US

[personally, I dig ‘em, big time]....;D

[pgkdan]

Now that’s funny!