Word: chimney
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...Chimney Rock, Colo...
...opening track, a Leiber-Stoller R&B number called "Santa Claus Is Back in Town," sounded a declaration of war against the Christmas-music tradition. As Elvis growled and screamed it: "Hang up your pretty stockin's / Turn off de light / Santa Claus is comin' / Down the old chimney tonight." Sexually explicit enough for ya? The title track - which lyrically is just another song about being alone or lonely on a holiday that's meant to reunite loved ones - was sung as a cry of sexual deprivation. Elvis' "White Christmas" borrows heavily from the 1954 doo-wop version by Clyde...
...money in the "Happiest Place on Earth" competition. Or maybe it would just be a bit less stinky and dangerous in some places, and a lot more yummy in others. And that’s good enough for us. So Santa, baby, hurry down the chimney tonight...
...have a choice. I could work on my "ohs," "oos" and "ows," and try to be a bit more slack about consonants. Or I could holiday in Essex, east of London, for total Estuary immersion. But somehow I don't think my Dick Van Dyke Cockney chimney sweep impression would fool anyone for a moment...
...offensive on numerous levels. One includes an ad for Mr. Pickles' Fun-Time Abortion Clinics ("We'll Bring Out the Kid in Ya!"), while in another, Mr. Show declares itself a religion--Odenkirk and Cross invite the audience to eat poison s'mores and ascend through "heaven's chimney"--then goes on to skewer the traditions of nearly every major faith. Talk about cult comedy...