Tom Poje Posted December 15, 2004 Share Posted December 15, 2004 Ok, the other one I have had for years. I found this one out on the internet, haven't even looked at it Christmas Song Puzzle: Below are possible original titles of 40 well known Christmas Songs. To get you started, the answer to the first one is "I'll Be Home For Christmas" . (Don't ask me for the solutions!) Expect My Arrival At My Domicile For Yuletide The Primary Carol Tinkling Chimes Stone My Singular Desire For The Impending Yuletide Season Is A Pair Of Central Incisors. Precious Metal Inverted Cups With Clappers Righteous Darkness Celestial Messengers From Splendid Empires The Yuletide's Dozen 24 Hour Intervals I'm Fantasizing Concerning A Celebration Day Without Color The Event Manifest Itself At the Onset of a Transparent Day The Diminutive Male Of Less Than Adult Age Who Plays A Percussion Instrument The Seasonal Tall Coniferous Plant (Woody?) Proclaim It To the Hills Diminutive Nazarene Municipality During The Dark Hours When Herdsman Supervised Their Charges Are You Listening To What I Am Listening To? The Mannikin Of Crystalline H2O The Event Occurred At One Minute After 11:59 PM, Visibility Unlimited Tinkling Cup Shaped Metal Pieces Loyal Followers Advance Are You Detecting The Same Aural Sensations As I Am? I Apprehended My Maternal Parent Osculating With a Corpulent, Unshaven Male In Crimson Disguise Delight For This Planet Please Permit Crystalline Formations To Descend Aged Matriarch Plowed Under By Precipitous Darlings Our Desire Is Your Yuletide Cheer Casteneous Colored Seed Heated In a Conflagration Season Without Color Listen, The Heavenly Messengers Harmonize Caribou With Vermillion Olfactory Appendage Soundless Nocturnal Period Happy Elderly Martyr Without Five Cent Pieces Bipedal Traveling Through An Amazing Acreage During Mother Nature's Dormancy Omnipotent Supreme Being Tells Happy Males To Relax In Another Place Meant For Bovine Storage Tranquillity Upon The Terrestrial Sphere The Approach Of The Holiday Commemorating The Birth Of Christ Is Becoming Evident What Offspring Abides Thus? A Visitor Is Coming To The City Embellish The Corridors With Large Sprigs Of Berry-Bearing Evergreen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
E as in ERISA Posted December 15, 2004 Share Posted December 15, 2004 Oh, please! Wait a week before posting another puzzle. We do have jobs! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoJo Posted December 15, 2004 Share Posted December 15, 2004 I know, I know - get a life.... Oh well... Expect My Arrival At My Domicile For Yuletide I'll be home for Christmas The Primary Carol The First Noel Tinkling Chimes Stone Jingle Bell Rock My Singular Desire For The Impending Yuletide Season Is A Pair Of Central Incisors. All I Want for Christmas is my Two Front Teeth Precious Metal Inverted Cups With Clappers Silver Bells Righteous Darkness Oh Holy Night Celestial Messengers From Splendid Empires The Yuletide's Dozen 24 Hour Intervals The Twelve Days of Christmas I'm Fantasizing Concerning A Celebration Day Without Color White Christmas The Event Manifest Itself At the Onset of a Transparent Day It Came Upon a Midnight Clear The Diminutive Male Of Less Than Adult Age Who Plays A Percussion Instrument Little Drummer Boy The Seasonal Tall Coniferous Plant (Woody?) Oh Tannenbaum Proclaim It To the Hills Go Tell it on the Mountain Diminutive Nazarene Municipality Oh Little Town of Bethlehem During The Dark Hours When Herdsman Supervised Their Charges Are You Listening To What I Am Listening To? Do you Hear what I hear? The Mannikin Of Crystalline H2O Frosty the Snowman The Event Occurred At One Minute After 11:59 PM, Visibility Unlimited It came Upon a Midnight Clear Tinkling Cup Shaped Metal Pieces Jingle Bells Loyal Followers Advance Oh Come, All Ye Faithful Are You Detecting The Same Aural Sensations As I Am? Do you Hear what I hear I Apprehended My Maternal Parent Osculating With a Corpulent, Unshaven Male In Crimson Disguise I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus Delight For This Planet Joy to the World Please Permit Crystalline Formations To Descend Let it Snow! Let it Snow! Aged Matriarch Plowed Under By Precipitous Darlings Gramma Got Run Over by a Reindeer Our Desire Is Your Yuletide Cheer We Wish You a Merry Christmas Casteneous Colored Seed Heated In a Conflagration Chestnust Roasting O'er an Open Fire (The Christmas Song) Season Without Color White Christmas Listen, The Heavenly Messengers Harmonize Hark, the Herald Angels Sing Caribou With Vermillion Olfactory Appendage Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer Soundless Nocturnal Period Silent Night Happy Elderly Martyr Without Five Cent Pieces Bipedal Traveling Through An Amazing Acreage During Mother Nature's Dormancy Walking Through a Winter Wonderland Omnipotent Supreme Being Tells Happy Males To Relax Oh Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen In Another Place Meant For Bovine Storage Away in a Manger Tranquillity Upon The Terrestrial Sphere Peace on Earth The Approach Of The Holiday Commemorating The Birth Of Christ Is Becoming Evident What Offspring Abides Thus? What Child is This? A Visitor Is Coming To The City Santa Clause is Coming to Town Embellish The Corridors With Large Sprigs Of Berry-Bearing Evergreen. Deck the Halls Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belgarath Posted December 15, 2004 Share Posted December 15, 2004 All right, the general tenor HAHAHA of these titles reminds me of a little story my father wrote. At least he says he wrote it, and I believe him, although it is possible he's pulling my leg. But since he has the best vocabulary I've ever encountered, he probably did write it. Or could have. Has nothing whatsoever to do with Christmas, but you may enjoy it anyway. The Triad of Diminutive Porcine Quadrupeds The initial diminutive porcine quadruped fabricated his domicile of dessicated monocotyledenous herbage. The rami of angiospermous arborescent flora constituted the habitation of the secondary diminutive porcine quadruped, but the tertiary diminutive quadruped assembled his commorancy from adamantine hexahedrons. Then comes one Canis Lupus, petitioning entrance seriatim into each domicile by minatory declamations concerning extreme aeolian perturbations. The negativism expressed by the first two porcine quadrupeds brought about an ex parte response by the Lupus and the subsequent aeolian demolition of their domiciles. Shortly thereafter, said Lupus engaged in porciphagous gourmandising. Finally Canis Lupus approached the commorancy of the tertiary diminutive porcine quadruped and petitioned entrance by the same minatory pronouncements. The porcine's antiphon was, "The hirsute component of my lower mandible's distal extremity renders the option of breaching the exterior of my edifice a nullity." Thereupon, the Lupus repeatedly created aeolian perturbations of the most severe sort until he was totally enervated, but the commorancy of hexahedrons proved totally renitent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WDIK Posted December 15, 2004 Share Posted December 15, 2004 Happy Elderly Martyr Without Five Cent Pieces - Jolly, Old Saint Nicholas During The Dark Hours When Herdsman Supervised Their Charges - While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks by Night. Celestial Messengers From Splendid Empires - Angels We Have Heard on High? ...but then again, What Do I Know? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoJo Posted December 15, 2004 Share Posted December 15, 2004 Thank you WDIK! It was begining to get to me that I couldn't get those.... MoJo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WDIK Posted December 15, 2004 Share Posted December 15, 2004 CORRECTION! Celestial Messengers From Splendid Empires - Angels from the Realms of Glory ...but then again, What Do I Know? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsb Posted December 15, 2004 Share Posted December 15, 2004 One of my favorite variations from who knows where: Valentino, the roseate proboscided wapiti. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoJo Posted December 16, 2004 Share Posted December 16, 2004 and who says benefits geeks have no "breadth." I bet mere lay people don't even know what a wapiti is! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belgarath Posted December 16, 2004 Share Posted December 16, 2004 I wasn't going to say anything, but I suppose since we are all a bit inclined toward technical language, that this should be "rangifer" rather than wapiti. Wapiti is an elk, I believe. I recall a little story about Rudolf Nicholyevich, who lived with his wife near Gorky Park. One afternoon, as he was eating his meal of tea, borscht, and black bread, he looked out the window. "Would you look at that" he grumbled to his wife, "It's starting to rain." "No it isn't" replied his wife, "It's snowing." He said, "NO, it's raining." She replied yet again, "No, it's SNOWING." Whereupon he replied, as you've already guessed, "Rudolf, the Red, knows rain, dear." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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