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[10:03] Damn you Borders!!!
I was SO close to making it through the "festive" season without encountering a single christmas carol when *BAM* I was mercilessley subjected to a barrage of "Jingle Bells" whilst on hold on the telephone.
Since I'm on the subject, according to multiple sources on the internet ('cause you know I'm just going to link to Wikipedia - I do look in other places but who's to say that THEY are definitive?) "Jingle Bells" is not actually a Christmas Song. 'twas written by one James Pierpont back in 1857 to be sung for the American Thanksgiving celebration (I'm not in the mood to go into it now, but it's interesting reading if you try to find out the origins of Thanskgiving, by the by).
Back to "Jingle Bells", and I must admit that I now find the song a smidge less offensive knowing that the original was written about attracting the eye of a comley lass with your souped-up sleigh and racing fast horses with an eye to making a killing betting high stakes, but there's still not a great deal of love in my heart for the poxy Commericalistmas version that we hear so often.
There's more info over yonder, including the missing lyrics, at (brace yourself, here it comes) Wikipedia.