Welcome to another of this year’s Doug’s 12 Days of Christmas, at the intersection of the song, the children’s game, tradition, culture, and Christ-mas. If you’ve missed a few, check your in-box from yesterday, or ping [email protected]. Today. “Four…” On the 4th day of Christmas, the kids would have gotten a breath after the “Fiiiiiiiiiiive […]
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Welcome again to Doug’s 12 Days of Christmas, at the intersection of the song, the children’s game, tradition, culture, andChrist-mas. If you’ve missed a few, checkyour in-box from yesterday, or [email protected]. Today, “Fiiiiiiiive….” On the 5th day of Christmas, the kids would be out of breath after the drummers and pipers and maids and swans,
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Welcome to another of this year’s Doug’s 12 Days of Christmas, at the intersection of the song, the children’s game, tradition, culture, and Christ-mas. If you’ve missed a few, check your in-box from yesterday, or ping [email protected]. Today. “Six…” Six. I’ve known a lotta 6’s through the years. Big Six. Pick Six. Sixpence. Seal Team
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Welcome to another of this year’s Doug’s 12 Days of Christmas, at the intersection of the song, the children’s game, tradition, culture, and Christ-mas. If you’ve missed a few, check your in-box from yesterday, or ping [email protected]. Today: “Seven…” Lucky Seven! Touchdown! 007. The pass line. Mickey Mantle. Ronaldo. Boomer. Elway. Kyle Boller…What comes to
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Eight Maids-a-Milkin’?! …Welcome to another of this year’s Doug’s 12 Days of Christmas, at the intersection of the song, the children’s game, tradition, culture, and Christ-mas. If you’ve missed a few, check your in-box from yesterday, or ping [email protected]. Today. “Eight…” What do you think of when you hear “maids a-milkin’?! …Nope, I don’t know
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Welcome to another of this year’s Doug’s 12 Days of Christmas, at the intersection of the song, the children’s game, tradition, culture, and Christ-mas. If you’ve missed a few, check your in-box from yesterday, or ping [email protected]. Today. “Nine…” What do you think of when you hear “ladies dancing?” Perhaps the Radio City Rockettes? The
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Today, for Sunday Lord’s Day, we come to the “Ten Lords-a-Leapin’.” I don’ know who the lords were or what they were leapin’ for, but the 10 was representative of the Ten Commandments. No, not the Charlton Heston ten, or even the Mel Brooks 15, but the Raiders of the Lost Ark ten, the first
The “Twelve Days of Christmas,” before it was a song, or a children’s book, or a tradition, or a rhyme, …it started as a memory-and-forfeit game in Europe. When your number came, you had to repeat the rhyme for the number. The larks with each number – today’s is Piper’s Piping – were harmless, and
