The Christmas Shoes

[Dixon Carter Lee]

It's a country song. They just made it into a TV movie. I told my wife about it. "Honey, it's the absolute worst piece of treacle you've ever heard in your life." She loves country music. She didn't believe me. She caught part of the movie. They played a couple lines of the song. 16 bars in she says "That is the absolute worst piece of treacle I've ever heard in my life."

How do these things become hits?

 

[Problem Child]

Normal people don't use "treacle" in informal conversation.

I've unmasked you, Alex Trebek.

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

I'm sorry, but you have to put your rebukes in the form of a question.

 

[RosevilleCAguy]

Why are you surprised?

 

[kotori]

How do these things become hits?

"Treacle" is America's favorite flavor.

 

[RosevilleCAguy]

Re: Re: The Christmas Shoes

"Treacle" is America's favorite flavor.

I always thought it was chocolate. Why do people never tell me these things?

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

But this one is sooooo over the top. I just don't understand people. I mean, they made a MOVIE out of it. I swear, just build a wall around New York and let's call that America.

 

[RosevilleCAguy]

But this one is sooooo over the top. I just don't understand people. I mean, they made a MOVIE out of it. I swear, just build a wall around New York and let's call that America.

They made a movie about building a wall around New York City.

The only problem was Kurt Russell escaped.

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

I still say that society could have worked, but they had to go and kill off Ernest Borgnine.

 

[Problem Child]

But this one is sooooo over the top. I just don't understand people. I mean, they made a MOVIE out of it. I swear, just build a wall around New York and let's call that America.

Dixon, we don't care about the stupid movie. We're fixated on treacle.

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

PC, I've had it with your insouciance.

 

[RosevilleCAguy]

I still say that society could have worked, but they had to go and kill off Ernest Borgnine.

They killed him cause he didn't have any cute country music tapes.

 

[Mia62]

Re: Re: The Christmas Shoes

"Treacle" is America's favorite flavor.

Around here, the favourite is vanilla.

*ducks*

 

[Problem Child]

PC, I've had it with your insouciance.

And I with your fecklessness, troglodyte.

 

[RosevilleCAguy]

Its the attack of the mutiple-syllabic linguistics.....run for your worthless lives......

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

Fuck. What's another word for "Thesaurus"?

 

[acitore_vuli]

Lexicon

 

[RosevilleCAguy]

Fuck. What's another word for "Thesaurus"?

"Lexicon"

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

Isn't that Superman's arch enemy?

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

Sir, I want to buy these shoes for my Mama, please
It's Christmas Eve and these shoes are just her size
Could you hurry, sir, Daddy says there's not much time
You see she's been sick for quite a while
And I know these shoes would make her smile
And I want her to look beautiful if Mama meets Jesus tonight

 

[RosevilleCAguy]

Isn't that Superman's arch enemy?

Only if you are on very familiar terms with him after he is released from prison.

 

[greybeard]

Sir, I want to buy these shoes for my Mama, please
It's Christmas Eve and these shoes are just her size
Could you hurry, sir, Daddy says there's not much time
You see she's been sick for quite a while
And I know these shoes would make her smile
And I want her to look beautiful if Mama meets Jesus tonight

Jesus has a foot fettish?.........................

greybeard

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

Maybe that's why the song feels so icky to me -- the whole idea of a kid buying a fetish item for his dying mother so she'll look good to Jesus. If his sister dies is he going panty shopping?

 

[sunstruck]

Ok Dixon apparently you missed my "What the fuck is wrong with country music people?" thread.

That stupid ballad was the first Christmas song I heard this year and it's put me in a Jingle Bell Funk. I haven't listenend to commercial radio since then in fear of hearing it again.

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

Missed that thread. God, I hate today's country music. I love Hank Williams and Johnny Cash. Anyone write like that anymore (besides Bruce Springstein -- go get "The Ghost of Tom Joad")?