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SONG CHALLENGE WINNER!
The Song Challenge:
Giving
Frosty The Cold Shoulder -- The
snowman is sexist, out of date and should make way for snow-women, an academic
claimed yesterday. Dr. Tricia Cusack, of Birmingham University, carried out a
five-year study into the "cultural meanings" of snowmen. She believes
that they are old-fashioned symbols of gender discrimination. She has called for
snow-women to appear on Christmas cards and wrapping paper. Writing in the
cultural history periodical New Formations, Dr. Cusack described snowmen as the
"rotund relics of Bacchanalia". They were gluttonous and indulgent,
and symbolised the grotesque with their portly appearance and carrot
noses. However, she added: "I don't want to ban snowmen or anything,
let's just be a bit more imaginative - why not have a snow-woman? We need to be
alert to which particular images have got currency. Why is it always male, and
why is it so popular at Christmas? At least the snowman has lost his pipe as
society is less geared towards promoting smoking."
Deck Us All by Amos
(Written in response to this
message from Sinsull on the original thread!)
Deck us all with balls of Cholly,
Falarlarlar, delarlar lum.
Down the dick, that student folly
Awr begar, hardihar, ho-ho-hum!
Melt the awesome, gelid penis
Fardelarfardelar, rah rah rah
Let it not now come between us!
Teiraleira polly-schmeera sis boom bah!
Fie upon you, students lusty!
Snicker-wicker, petty-dicker, poo-poo-poo!
Can't you stick to vixens busty?!
Colly-woddle, molly-coddle, shoo, shoo shoo!
Shame on those, their snowballs rolling,
Umpty-fratz, marmisatz, glee, glee, glee!
Building members vast and swollen!
Unterlichen, mausen stichen, whee, whee, whee!