'Tis the season for the due South Christmas song!
Short version from the TV episode:
Extended version:
Short version from the TV episode:
Extended version:
Today is the official Canadian Thanksgiving Day, but every day is a good day to be thankful for the existence of Canada!
In Canada and all around the world, people STAND ON GUARD FOR CANADA!
Happy Thanksgiving Day and Happy Indigenous Peoples Day to Canadians and all fans of Canada!
Happy Thanksgiving Day and Happy Indigenous Peoples Day to Canadians and all fans of Canada!
From this U.S. fangirl for Canada on today's Canada Day and every day: declaring my love and respect for the Great Sovereign Land of Canada.
Ten Inspiring Quotations About Canada.
(And furthermore: Fox Delta Tango!)
Ten Inspiring Quotations About Canada.
(And furthermore: Fox Delta Tango!)
It was with amazement and delight that I learned my beloved Canadian band -- The Barenaked Ladies -- was going to be performing 5 miles (or 8 km if you're Canadian) from my home in the Midwestern U.S. I had never seen them perform live, always wanted to...and haven't even gone to ANY concerts since the pandemic. (The last two live concerts I did attend before the pandemic were also Canadian, which I'm sure surprises no one.) I got online at the ticket-ordering website about an hour before it opened, wanting to be right at the front of that virtual ticket line. I got a ticket for myself and a ticket for my fanpair...and the concert completely sold out within the first hour of ticket sales.
Here's a clip from that concert:
(And TYK to![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
desireearmfeldt for having pimped me into BNL fandom all those years ago.)
Here's a clip from that concert:
(And TYK to
desireearmfeldt for having pimped me into BNL fandom all those years ago.)Halfway to completing the Fannish Fifty...and with just two months left to finish it. Meep.
This may amuse you whether or not you are in due South & Canadian Six Degrees fandom, but you won't really get the parody aspect if you don't know about Stan Rogers and Garnet Rogers and about Stan's song "Barrett's Privateers".
Lyrics:
Oh the year was nineteen seventy-eight,
(How I wish I'd never tried it now)
When a score of men were turned quite green
By the scummiest ale you've ever seen
Chorus:
God damn them all,
I was told this beer was worth its weight in gold
We'd feel no pain, shed no tears,
But it's a foolish man who shows no fear
At a glass of Garnet's homemade beer.
(Chorus)
Old Garnet Rogers cried the town
(How I wish I'd never tried it now)
For twenty brave men all masochists who
Would taste for him his homemade brew.
(Chorus)
This motley crew was a sickening sight
(How I wish I'd never tried it now)
There was caveman Dave with his eyes in bags
He'd a hard-boiled liver and the staggers and jags.
(Chorus)
We hadn't been there but an hour or two
(How I wish I'd never tried it now)
When a voice said "Give me some homemade brew"
And steel-eyed Stan hove into view.
(Chorus)
Now steel-eyed Stan was a frightening man
(How I wish I'd never tried it now)
He was eight foot tall and four foot wide
Said, "pass that jug or I'll tan your hide."
(Chorus)
Stan took one sip and pitched on his side
(How I wish I'd never tried it now)
Ol' Garnett was smashed with a gut full of dregs
And his breath set fire to both me legs.
(Chorus)
So here I lie with me twenty-third beer
(how I wish I'd never tried it now)
It's been ten years since I felt this way
On the night before me wedding day.
(Chorus)
This may amuse you whether or not you are in due South & Canadian Six Degrees fandom, but you won't really get the parody aspect if you don't know about Stan Rogers and Garnet Rogers and about Stan's song "Barrett's Privateers".
Lyrics:
Oh the year was nineteen seventy-eight,
(How I wish I'd never tried it now)
When a score of men were turned quite green
By the scummiest ale you've ever seen
Chorus:
God damn them all,
I was told this beer was worth its weight in gold
We'd feel no pain, shed no tears,
But it's a foolish man who shows no fear
At a glass of Garnet's homemade beer.
(Chorus)
Old Garnet Rogers cried the town
(How I wish I'd never tried it now)
For twenty brave men all masochists who
Would taste for him his homemade brew.
(Chorus)
This motley crew was a sickening sight
(How I wish I'd never tried it now)
There was caveman Dave with his eyes in bags
He'd a hard-boiled liver and the staggers and jags.
(Chorus)
We hadn't been there but an hour or two
(How I wish I'd never tried it now)
When a voice said "Give me some homemade brew"
And steel-eyed Stan hove into view.
(Chorus)
Now steel-eyed Stan was a frightening man
(How I wish I'd never tried it now)
He was eight foot tall and four foot wide
Said, "pass that jug or I'll tan your hide."
(Chorus)
Stan took one sip and pitched on his side
(How I wish I'd never tried it now)
Ol' Garnett was smashed with a gut full of dregs
And his breath set fire to both me legs.
(Chorus)
So here I lie with me twenty-third beer
(how I wish I'd never tried it now)
It's been ten years since I felt this way
On the night before me wedding day.
(Chorus)
Thank You Kindly, Frontline Workers!
Aug. 13th, 2022 02:31 pmThe reason that Chris Mann prefaces this video with "all jokes aside" is that he had done some song parody videos with a COVID theme...but this video is serious and is seriously emotional and has the potential for making you cry ugly -- it does that to me every time.
Covid-19 & HOPE: please share this song
Mar. 25th, 2020 11:05 pmI'm currently safe and healthy, "sheltering at home". May all of you be safe and healthy too.
Maritime Bhangra Group of Canada
Jun. 2nd, 2017 09:31 pmTYK to siglinde99 for introducing me to these awesome Sikh Canadian Bhangra Dancers! Check out their videos for their joyous dancing (and their charity fund-raising): Maritime Bhangra Group.
Here they are dancing at Parliament Hill in Ottawa to celebrate Canada's 150th birthday:
siglinde99 for introducing me to these awesome Sikh Canadian Bhangra Dancers! Check out their videos for their joyous dancing (and their charity fund-raising): Maritime Bhangra Group.Here they are dancing at Parliament Hill in Ottawa to celebrate Canada's 150th birthday:
Justin Trudeau! And Canada's Panda Cubs!
Aug. 9th, 2016 05:18 pmBefore I completely die of the cute, here, have an adorable pic of PM Justin Trudeau with Canada's newly-born panda cubs Jia Panpan (meaning Canadian Hope) and Jia Yueyue (meaning Canadian Joy), and the accompanying New Yorker article: "Canada Fears Photo of Prime Minister with Pandas Could Worsen American Refugee Crisis".
And a related video:
And a related video:
