Not even a mouse. Fingers crossed.
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Hitsujibungaku - 1999

Unlike any Carol of the Bells you've ever encountered This one has a deep epic tone. And if you have headphones with good bass pickup it's even better.

Christmas Is. Wonderful number by the late great Lou Rawls.

Then how the reindeers loved him. The Jackson 5 sing Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer. This is pretty darn bland, not like the Jacksons at all.

Zat U Santa Clause?

Crash Test Dummies - The First Noel

Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra with Jack Teagarden trombone, Johnny Mercer vocal - Christmas Night in Harlem 1934

Louis Armstrong - Christmas Night In Harlem 1955

Bump of Chicken – Merry Christmas English translation.

Skank for Christmas. When I say skank, I'm talking about the ska dance. And nothing else.

I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas.

Friday question. For a time here we used to do a Friday night question. So here is one. →Read more...

Another Christmas classic. Patton Oswalt on The Christmas Shoes. A horrible song that became a horrible book that became a horrible Rob Lowe movie.

The 12 Days of Christmas - A Tale of Avian Misery and Freebird.

Happy Krampusnacht! Help keep the holiday traditions alive. Tonight put on some horns and then head out and grab up some nasty little children, put them in a sack and then beat them with sticks.

The 12 Days of Christmas, Sinatrafied.

#bunnies is multiplying like… well, bunnies. For those who don't, or can't, IRC, there is now a #bunnies discord server! →Read more...

Welcome to Homecoming! So glad you all came! Everyone on the dance floor for the Social Mingle. Please give a Homecoming Award to the person who posted above you. →Read more...

We're Coming to Your House. We used to post Holiday/Christmas songs in December. Some were very silly. Here's an oldie from The Three Stooges.

Three Point Update! Happy Homecoming! I hope everyone is doing well and was hoping you'd share what's new; what's interesting; whatever you'd like to share.


Me:

1) For the last few days, there's been a low hum around my house. So low it seems I can feel it more than hear it, if that makes sense. Neither of my grown sons hear it, nor does my Other Half. And it's not all the time, either.
Well tonight, it started up, so I threw on a coat and went for a walk. And I found the source! Four blocks away we have our own sewerage plant for our neghborhood (manufactured home community with a well system) - it's that plant that is humming! No idea how the people in the houses closer to it can stand the noise, though, but I'm so glad that I at least have an answer.

2) Tomorrow is supposed to be chilly, but we will be at a car race track for the last races of the season. I don't mind the cold, but Other Half does and I'm quite thrilled that he's still into this idea. He has a heated vest, we got a battery operated blanket, and layers and layers and layers. Plus we just found out that our favorite driver (who we know personally) will be there too. I am looking forward to this!

3) I find I'm struggling with #3. Life keeps chugging on and I could fill this space with little things but it's been a year and I'm kinda looking forward for it to end

BREAKING NEWS!! Sorry to interrupt MeCha Homecoming Weekend, but →Read more...

Happy thanks giving bunnies What are you up to today?

It's MetaChat Homecoming Weekend! Starting this Thursday ! Click link for fun animation!

Please share with your other networks where #bunnies burrow - Facebook, etc!

Frontpaging the Homecoming thing again.

Hey, does anyone have an image of the Zombie Bunny? Was going to make a little graphic for the upcoming Homecoming Weekend, but I can't find a copy of the lil guy!

Might as well keep this MetaChat homecoming post on the front page.

Your iPhone iWatch is annoyingly noisy Getting this off my chest. I wear hearing aids. iWatches do a loud ping pretty often. It's horrible and invasive, makes me jump.

🎉ANNOUNCING: METACHAT HOMECOMING WEEKEND ‼️ Greetings MeCha bunnies. Even though we're slow here, I know we're still a community and think of y'all often. In that spirit, I'm announcing MetaChat Homecoming Weekend. Plan ahead! →Read more...

It's been over a month since our last thread What's up with everyone?
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Those of you of the hard rock persuasion may remember Rainbow, guitarist Ritchie Blackmore's post Deep Purple solo project, which had an ever-rotating lineup including lead singers Ronnie James Dio, Graham Bonnett and then finally Joe Lynn Turner, known for both his long locks as his powerhouse pipes.

The other day I learned that he's actually been bald since he was a child.

Beatrix is seventeen years old Since I reported her entrance to my life right after I got her here, it seems right to say something now. Everyone tells me she's had a long life.→Read more...

eponstyrical what it says in the post title.

Imgur link will rot out. link to MeFi comment

Ponderables... Just what it says. What are some things that you think about?
Me: If you went bungee jumping, would it crack your back like a chiropractor? Would you be half an inch taller after the experience?

What happens to rubber from tires on the road? Does it come off in tiny bits? Where does it go?

Why do we consider hair on the head so lovely, but the minute it coils up in the shower drain it's the most disgusting thing ever?

Waving Both Canada and the USA recently celebrated their independence and the good old UK also won some freedom from the Tories. Any other news to celebrate hereabouts?

Apple is in my brain. Anybody else catch the new iPhone commercial (can't find a link, sorry) featuring the raggedy rock version of Frankie Valli's "Can't Take My Eyes Off of You" played at a wedding? It's so damned infectious it makes me want to find a random record and boogie my ass off. So, two things, does anyone know who's playing it and if there's a full-legnth version out there. I can't be the only one digging this.I have used all my search powers and they have failed me.

All of a sudden I turned older So, indulge me as I share a link to music that keeps me younger.→Read more...

I have an incredible urge to take a bath in this stuff, go to a bar and see what happens. The same company, makes this item, which seems like just asking for trouble....

Anyone else in the path of the eclipse? We were at 99.6% totality and it was pretty neat but the 2017 one was more fun.→Read more...

One of my favorite singer-songwriters Eric Carmen, who with the Raspberries gave us, "I Wanna Be With You,"Tonight" the classic "Go All The Way and the brilliant record industry parody "Overnight Sensation (Hit Record) has passed on RIP Great One.

If I have a tea and a couple of social tea biscuits while alone am I putting myself at legal risk?

What questions do you have?

This is symbolic. Of something.

One of my cats has a cat now? Ginger, my feral cat apparently has a cat now. For the third night in a row there is a new cat here.→Read more...

Unsolicited cookie tin of dicks. But not the dicks they were looking for. Grimsby is a happening town.

How Old Are You? - Miko Mission A 1984 Italo disco song I had never heard before but just shows that type of sound perfectly.

Craig Whittler / oneswellfoop On metafilter I spoke out loud that I think that oneswellfoop has died.

I hope I'm wrong. But given that his domain stopped working I have black suspicions.
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Today I hung off the side of a building at almost 1200 feet up.