Sunday, January 04, 2009

12 Days of Blogmas, Day 11

OK, here we are at the second-to-last day of Christmas. Which means it's the second-to-last chance for you to enter my contest.

You remember what to do, right?


  1. Look at the pictures.

  2. Try to figure out what Christmas carol they represent. (Usually I show the first line of the first verse, i.e., "Silent night, holy night" because just "Silent Night" would be too short.)

  3. Leave a comment with your well-reasoned and thoughtful solution. Or take the opportunity to make fun of me.

  4. If you're right, you win a $15 Starbucks gift card. (Or iTunes, if you prefer Dunkin Donuts coffee--and who doesn't?)

  5. And here's a hint, because honestly, the emails are getting to me.

    Most of the time, the phrase I'm using includes little words--basic verbs, articles, pronouns, and prepositions--that produce pretty strange results in Google Images. After all, it's THE first Noel and WE three kings OF orient ARE. And when you do a search for the, we, of, and are, you come up with pretty random images.

    So look for the nouns. Christmas carol-y nouns like angels, mangers, stars, nights, oxen, and asses.


  6. Also, in today's contest, I repeated a preposition from one of my previous days. And Manet was not painting an angel.


  7. OK, angels little birds. It's out of the manger nest with you.



Ready?





12 comments:

  1. Because I attended parochial school, I know this one!

    "Angels and Things We Saw While High"

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  2. Susie: Hey! Good for you! You guessed it, even though I left out the image of Cheech and Chong.

    Rest of you: Just kidding.

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  3. Angels We Have Heard on High!

    From Patty

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  4. OMG, I got this one too! These things are starting to make a bizarre kind of sense to me, finally. Like those optical illusion pictures after you've stared at them long enough.

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  5. Oh, I'll be doing the crossword puzzle if you need me.
    THE CROSSWORD PUZZLE WHICH I DO VERY WELL WITH.

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  6. Hmm, this is a toughie, something about angels, or maybe king of the Orient, who didn't Cceat (cheetah) and still got to graduate? No, that's not very Christmas-y. And besides, I stil have some bunnies and a Manet left over.

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  7. Hey, Anonymous Patty! You won!

    Email me (poppy2006@gmail.com) so I can send you your gift card.

    And yay! I'm almost done! Only one more day of overt hostility before I go back to being my usual non-clever under-the-radar self.

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  8. I gave up after Day 1. I thought there was something about Orient though.

    We Three Kings of Orient Are?

    Oh, wait. Damn. Someone already won.

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  9. "Angels We Have Heard On High"

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Gentle Readers:

For the time being, I have turned off comment moderation. Please don't spam; it's not nice.

xxx, Poppy.