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December 24, 2005
There are easier ways to get a day off school
Remember when you were a kid and you used to sing at Christmas, "joy to the world/ the school burned down/ and all the teachers died!/ We're looking for the principal/ he's hanging from the flagpole/ with a rope around his neck/ with a rope around his neck/ with a ro-pe, a ro-o-ope around his neeeeeeeck.
You did so!
Two years ago today, my old elementary school burned down. It had been closed for a few years and the building was sitting empty. My brother had picked me up to drive me out to our mom's (she still lives in our hometown) and didn't tell me about it until we got almost to Dashwood Industries on Highway 4 and I said, "what smells like burning?". We got there just in time to see Grades 4 and 5 collapse (Mom and Lynne and Dave had watched the gym fall down earlier in the day before he came to fetch me). After supper we walked back over to see that Grades 7 and 8 had also given in to the flames, and that was pretty much the end of the whole building. Considering how unhappy I had been there, I was surprised at how much I cried.
Here are our gifts, all wrapped and ready to be gifted. Can you tell we hate this holiday?
The stuff inside all has a scaaaaary theme too. Sort of.
Posted by jodi at December 24, 2005 05:23 PM | categories: general
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I guess in the 'States our song went more like this:
"Joy to the world our teacher's dead/ we barbecued her head/and what about the body/we flushed it down the potty/and it went round and round, and it went round and round, and i~t went round and round"
The school burning down song was to the tune of "our eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the lord":
"oh my eyes have seen the glory of the burning of the school/we have tortured every teacher we have broken every rule/and we hope to hang the principal tomorrow afternoon/our troops are marching on/glory glory how peculiar/my teacher hit me with a ruler/i met her at the door with a loaded .44 and she ain't my teacher no more"
Geez, what violent music...
I really like how the presents look like they belong to Halloween =)
Posted by: meranie at December 25, 2005 04:33 PM
HAHAHAH! I was just going to post with the same thing about the state's version. I hadn't heard the second one though. I think I'm gonna run around singing it tonight.
Posted by: Melissa at December 26, 2005 11:19 PM
A girl after my very own heart. The wrappings on those presents rock!
Halloween colors rules, every day of the year.
I think Im going to get an orange and black nautical star tattoo'd on my arm...to go with my day of the dead elbow.
Heres to the old orange and black, and heres to you Jodi, your the first blog I ever read and my favorite.
Happy New year hon!
Moon
Posted by: Lisa at January 2, 2006 12:21 AM