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[challenge entry] Anyone want a mince pie?

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From the B3ta Christmas Cards challenge. See all 372 entries (closed)

(, Wed 22 Dec 2010, 12:34, archived)
# I'm liking these
: )
(, Wed 22 Dec 2010, 12:37, archived)
# Thank you very much, mulled wine?
(, Wed 22 Dec 2010, 12:39, archived)
# don't mind if I do...
How very civilized..
chin chin
(, Wed 22 Dec 2010, 12:41, archived)
# Excellent!
:D
(, Wed 22 Dec 2010, 12:48, archived)
# Yes please
(, Wed 22 Dec 2010, 12:49, archived)
# Sorry just scoffed the last one myself. Would you like a mince beef pie instead?
(, Wed 22 Dec 2010, 12:58, archived)
# No thanks
*Sulks*
(, Wed 22 Dec 2010, 13:00, archived)
# but they have extra eyelids?
(, Wed 22 Dec 2010, 13:02, archived)
# *hesitates*
(, Wed 22 Dec 2010, 13:03, archived)
# have a woo
and a slap to anyone who puts music to silent night
(, Wed 22 Dec 2010, 12:54, archived)
# *quietly puts trombone back in its case*
(, Wed 22 Dec 2010, 12:57, archived)
# Awwwwwwww!
(, Wed 22 Dec 2010, 12:58, archived)
# Ashamed though I am to admit it,
The German version is very lovely. Sans instruments, as you so rightly say.
(, Wed 22 Dec 2010, 12:58, archived)
# I can just imagine The Pub Landlord singing it

Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht,
Alles schläft; einsam wacht
Nur das traute hochheilige Paar.
Holder Knabe im lockigen Haar,
Schlaf in himmlischer Ruh!
Schlaf in himmlischer Ruh!

Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht,
Hirten erst kundgemacht
Durch der Engel Halleluja,
Tönt es laut von fern und nah:
Christ, der Retter ist da!
Christ, der Retter ist da!

Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht,
Gottes Sohn, o wie lacht
Lieb' aus deinem göttlichen Mund,
Da uns schlägt die rettende Stund'.
Christ, in deiner Geburt!
Christ, in deiner Geburt!
(, Wed 22 Dec 2010, 12:59, archived)
# coincidentally
DTH and I were singing German earlier, over MSN.
It's in the air!
(, Wed 22 Dec 2010, 13:02, archived)
# Ach wirklich?
(, Wed 22 Dec 2010, 13:04, archived)
# Ja
(, Wed 22 Dec 2010, 13:09, archived)
# Ich begrüße Ihre Bemühungen
(, Wed 22 Dec 2010, 13:13, archived)
# winken hiesen mit saucen!
Wassenschrickengrubelhoffumnurgleheimerscraoufensclitzenlieberengum.
According to Dave, that's from Brahms' Deutche Requiem but according to me, the last time I looked, that definitely wasn't there.
(, Wed 22 Dec 2010, 13:16, archived)
# HP or Heinz?
(, Wed 22 Dec 2010, 13:18, archived)
# Heinz of course
(, Wed 22 Dec 2010, 13:19, archived)
# !
needs more this.
(, Wed 22 Dec 2010, 13:47, archived)
# It is! IT IS!


(, Wed 22 Dec 2010, 13:23, archived)
# Wie schön!
(, Wed 22 Dec 2010, 13:14, archived)
# Nicht so schön wie deine Augen, die wie zarte Ozeanen der Lieblichkeit sind
(, Wed 22 Dec 2010, 13:17, archived)
# Is that the new biscuit from Bahlsen?
(, Wed 22 Dec 2010, 13:45, archived)
# yes
it is 80cm long
(, Wed 22 Dec 2010, 14:11, archived)
# Das flamen auge mir!
(, Wed 22 Dec 2010, 13:17, archived)
# ha - yes indeed!
that said, that bloody Al Murray can just feck right off.

/grumpy old git blog
(, Wed 22 Dec 2010, 13:09, archived)
# Oddly enough, since I went to school in Germany, this is the version I hear whenever I think of Silent Night
(, Wed 22 Dec 2010, 16:48, archived)
#
(, Wed 22 Dec 2010, 13:02, archived)
# Nice...
:)
(, Wed 22 Dec 2010, 13:08, archived)
# It annoys me when people use instruments, ruins it completely
(, Wed 22 Dec 2010, 13:09, archived)
# In general, or just this instance specifically?
Trying to perform Mahler would present a number of problems, otherwise.

;-)
(, Wed 22 Dec 2010, 13:12, archived)
# just in the case of when they put instruments to songs that should be cappella
(, Wed 22 Dec 2010, 13:19, archived)
# In that case,
I wholeheartedly concur.
(, Wed 22 Dec 2010, 14:06, archived)
# Heh, sweet.
(, Wed 22 Dec 2010, 12:55, archived)
# and appropriately shaped like a Christmas aspirin!
(, Wed 22 Dec 2010, 13:00, archived)
# Hahaha.
(, Wed 22 Dec 2010, 13:06, archived)
# I'd like to post an addendum to this conversation
www.b3ta.com/board/10290416

I once, genuinely, broke my elbow by slipping on some frozen vomit.
(, Wed 22 Dec 2010, 13:37, archived)
# Eeewwwww?
(, Wed 22 Dec 2010, 14:05, archived)