A swingin' I must go, I must go

[prog]

I really like the Unhappy Birthday page for all the wrong reasons. Terrible truth about me: I hate that song and all that it stands for. I never sing it at anyone's birthday celebration, instead just standing there smiling and waiting for everyone else to get done with it. I find it thoughtless and trite, like small talk, or a prefabricated greeting card with watercolors of bluejays on the front and something printed in a cursive typeface on the inside.

Boy, I am the crankiest bastard in the world according to my own LJ posts today, huh.

Well my name it is Sam Hall, Sam Hall
Yes my name it is Sam Hall, it is Sam Hall
My name it is Sam Hall
And I hate you one and all
And I hate you one and all
Damn your eyes!

Looking forward to game night, anyway.

Comments

[ruthling.livejournal.com]

Once, when I was having a shared birthday party with a couple friends, everyone there sang us the happy birthday song, and, without missing a beat, better than if we'd planned it, I and my two co-birthday people broke out singing the birthday dirge ("happy birthday. ugh. Happy birthday. ug. sickness sorrow and despair, people dying everywhere. happy birthday. ugh.)

[keimel.livejournal.com]

http://www.faqs.org/faqs/music/birthday-dirge-faq/

Enjoy.

[ruthling.livejournal.com]

Thanks! That's more than I'll ever need to know!