“You know Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen,
Comet and Cupid and Donner and Blitzen.\u00a0
But do you recall\u00a0
the most famous reindeer of all?”<\/p>\n\n\n
This is the dumbest line in the entire genre of Christmas music. And it will cause me to switch the radio station faster than if I hear the opening few bars of Feliz Navidad<\/i>.*\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n
Why would you assume I know the names of eight reindeer who are absolutely indistinguishable from each other, but I WOULDN’T recall the one who is actually famous?<\/p>\n\n\n
That’s like asking,\u00a0
“You know Milgram and Leavitt and Florey and Kepler,
Pauling and Lemann and Gilbert and Napier.
But do you recall\u00a0
the most famous scientist of all?\u00a0 Albert Einstein?”
(Who had some very shaggy hair…)<\/p>\n\n\n
And while we’re at it, it is also troubling that Santa chose “Vixen” as the name of one – if not the only – female reindeer. What is up with that?<\/p>\n\n\n
* Feliz Navidad<\/i> is banned from my radio because it has a playing time of THREE minutes but contains only EIGHTEEN distinct words. Seven of those words, “I wanna wish you a Merry Christmas”, are repeated EIGHTEEN times while two, “Feliz Navidad”, are repeated TWENTY ONE times. There’s not a single word that isn’t repeated at least 6 times. This song could be edited down to 15 seconds.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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