Dear Santa, Can we have a Rats Christmas Party?

ArrGee · Back To Boomtown

Dear Santa, Can we have a Rats Christmas Party?

Jules · The biggest Geldof fan in the world, bar none!

I am in support of this request.

Tango · In the Long Grass

Cosigned.

noelindublin · Loudmouth

Isn't that Christmas card scene a ****take of the Tonic cover?Reindeer standing in for the tiger. Very clever. They even got all the guys in the right places, and yes I did check. smile

-- Edited by noelindublin on Thursday 20th of November 2014 02:43:42 PM

Jules · The biggest Geldof fan in the world, bar none!

noelindublin wrote:
Isn't that Christmas card scene a ****take of the Tonic cover?Reindeer standing in for the tiger. Very clever.

Genius biggrin I wonder who's idea it was.

noelindublin · Loudmouth

Jules wrote:
noelindublin wrote:
Isn't that Christmas card scene a ****take of the Tonic cover?Reindeer standing in for the tiger. Very clever.
Genius I wonder who's idea it was.

Do you think The Jam or The Clash would dress up in Christmas costumes. Either the Rats didn't take themselves too seriously, or else they would do anything for fame?

Tango · In the Long Grass

I'd gladly use it as a Christmas card, whether appreciated by the recipients or not!

Jules · The biggest Geldof fan in the world, bar none!

noelindublin wrote:
Jules wrote:
noelindublin wrote:
Isn't that Christmas card scene a ****take of the Tonic cover?Reindeer standing in for the tiger. Very clever.
Genius I wonder who's idea it was.
Do you think The Jam or The Clash would dress up in Christmas costumes. Either the Rats didn't take themselves too seriously, or else they would do anything for fame?

It could well have been a bit of both.

ArrGee · Back To Boomtown

noelindublin wrote:
Isn't that Christmas card scene a ****take of the Tonic cover?Reindeer standing in for the tiger. Very clever. They even got all the guys in the right places, and yes I did check.

Yes, but a bit half-hearted. They should have really went for it with the mirror image and a night time scene in the background. In fact, should have done it as a complimentary live LP called A Stocking for Santa

ArrGee · Back To Boomtown

noelindublin wrote:
Do you think The Jam or The Clash would dress up in Christmas costumes. Either the Rats didn't take themselves too seriously, or else they would do anything for fame?

Dunno about them, but if it's good enough for The Beatles and The Stones, then it's fine for The Rats

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Jules · The biggest Geldof fan in the world, bar none!

I suspect that was the inspiration for doing it.

ArrGee · Back To Boomtown

ArrGee wrote:
noelindublin wrote:
Isn't that Christmas card scene a ****take of the Tonic cover?Reindeer standing in for the tiger. Very clever. They even got all the guys in the right places, and yes I did check.
Yes, but a bit half-hearted. They should have really went for it with the mirror image and a night time scene in the background. In fact, should have done it as a complimentary live LP called A Stocking for Santa

Or maybe A Carrot for the Reindeer

Mark L · Loudmouth

Carrots - they must be at the 'root' of the line 'the music's playing, you can see in the gloom' disbelief

ArrGee · Back To Boomtown

Mark L wrote:
Carrots - they must be at the 'root' of the line 'the music's playing, you can see in the gloom'

OK then how's about A Turnip for the Roots ?

(I'll get my coat)

Mark L · Loudmouth

Very good

Containing the song Watch sprout for the normal people.

Couldn't think of anything else so that's shallot

ArrGee · Back To Boomtown

Don't Believe What You Seed

Me and Hoe-ward Hughes

(I'll get my coat)

Mark L · Loudmouth

You already had your coat after a Turnip for the Roots......time to walk down to the street, button it up against the cold and get that taxi!

suss · In the Long Grass

Mark L wrote:
Very good
Containing the song Watch sprout for the normal people.
Couldn't think of anything else so that's shallot

Not even Leek Clockwork or Living Onion Island??

Can tell tour is over when we descend back to this.....

ArrGee · Back To Boomtown

suss wrote:
Mark L wrote:
Very good
Containing the song Watch sprout for the normal people.
Couldn't think of anything else so that's shallot
Not even Leek Clockwork or Living Onion Island??
Can tell tour is over when we descend back to this.....

.... is a crossword in the offing?

suss · In the Long Grass

Now there's an idea smile

ArrGee · Back To Boomtown

suss wrote:
Now there's an idea

I wasn't Fcuking encouraging it

Still will be something to do in the six months before the Rats start playing again after the radio show.

ArrGee · Back To Boomtown

Predictions for q1 q2 2015

January - Mark L posts about TOTP appearance for someone's looking at you subject to dodgy DJs.
February - Arrgee bangs on about Julian cope and bores the ar$e off everyone
March - geldof plays Irish pub in the middle of the fcuking desert.
May - everyone solves suss's quizzes in ten minutes having had months of practise.
June - hallelujah the rats are playing!

Mark L · Loudmouth

Living onion island - well done Suss, one of the best we've ever had in this connection.

Also like the Q1 Q2 predictions, although regulars Jules, JofA, MATT, Noel and maybe one or two others may be disappointed they were not name checked in ArrGee's parody of posters' predictability!

PS - We're ok for Someone's Looking as Mike Read and Steve Wright were at the respective helms. As long as Readie doesn't do another calypso style UKIP-supporting ditty and Wrightie doesn't turn out to have been a wrong 'un, we'll see the Rats at 44 and 8.

Now what the hell will I post about in January? cry Rhetorical question, thank you!

-- Edited by Mark L on Saturday 22nd of November 2014 04:23:05 AM

Jules · The biggest Geldof fan in the world, bar none!

January/February is usually (if you can call 2 years usually) the time the Rats announce their tour. That will be the topic for a good few weeks. Prior to that predictions of where they might play. Will they do Ireland? How successful will it be? And so on.

ArrGee · Back To Boomtown

Jules wrote:
January/February is usually (if you can call 2 years usually) the time the Rats announce their tour. That will be the topic for a good few weeks. Prior to that predictions of where they might play. Will they do Ireland? How successful will it be? And so on.

I think it is mainly the festivals, but a few have already gone up.

as for the predictability of posters, I didn't mean to omit anyone in particular, just it got late and thought I'd send. They were just off the top of my head.

still at least the quiet periods are shorter now. For a couple of years it was just Jules and me banging on about nothing. Even we were flagging just before The Rats first reformation. I think this forum would be long dead but for that.

Jules · The biggest Geldof fan in the world, bar none!

ArrGee wrote:
Jules wrote:
For a couple of years it was just Jules and me banging on about nothing. Even we were flagging just before The Rats first reformation. I think this forum would be long dead but for that.

Speak for yourself wink evileye . I can't even remember what I have been banging on about though. It probably was nothing.

manatthetop · In the Long Grass

I take my hat of to you both.I for one thought that rat fans had become like dinosaurs (A thing of the past). How wrong was I to be. Great to have gotten to know some of you. Turns out I was not the only rats fan left in Ireland or the UK for that matter

Jules · The biggest Geldof fan in the world, bar none!

I thought I was sline before this forum and it's predecessor (s). Glad to find it is not true at all

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Lisa · Mondo Bongo

suss wrote:
Mark L wrote:
Very good
Containing the song Watch sprout for the normal people.
Couldn't think of anything else so that's shallot
Not even Leek Clockwork or Living Onion Island??
Can tell tour is over when we descend back to this.....

Close As You'll Ever Pea .... ??

ArrGee · Back To Boomtown

Lisa wrote:
Close As You'll Ever Pea .... ??

Sorry, wrong LP, you can't have that.

Yule have to do better to get something on A Carrot for the Reindeer or A Turnip for the Roots. Ho ho ho.

Lisa · Mondo Bongo

ArrGee wrote:
Lisa wrote:
Close As You'll Ever Pea .... ??
Sorry, wrong LP, you can't have that.
Yule have to do better to get something on A Carrot for the Reindeer or A Turnip for the Roots. Ho ho ho.

ok - watch out for the normal peaple!

Jules · The biggest Geldof fan in the world, bar none!

A turkey for the troops. Ok coat's on...

jamieuka · House on Fire

I Donder Like Mondays b-side Flying Again.

ArrGee · Back To Boomtown

jamieuka wrote:
I Donder Like Mondays b-side Flying Again.

I Donner Like Mondays!

Who is Donder, don't you know your reindeer ?

ArrGee · Back To Boomtown

ArrGee wrote:
jamieuka wrote:
I Donder Like Mondays b-side Flying Again.
I Donner Like Mondays!
Who is Donder, don't you know your reindeer ?

Trivia question. Name Santa's ten reindeer. There are two answers. No prizes, just for fun.

jamieuka · House on Fire

We're both right :)

Santa's reindeer were first named in "A Visit from St. Nicholas" (better known by its first line, "Twas the Night Before Christmas") in 1823. In the original printing, the final two reindeers'[sic] names are Dunder and Blixem, which are Dutch for "thunder and lightning." In an 1844 printing by Clement Clarke Moore, who is credited as being the author, these names are changed to Donder and Blitzen.

(This figures into a debate over whether Moore really wrote the poem in question, which is too complicated to get into here.)

The 1949 song "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" calls them Donner and Blitzen, which are German for "thunder and lightning." This is how they're most widely known today.

Source: Donner or Donder? | Infoplease.com www.infoplease.com/askeds/donner-donder.html

ArrGee · Back To Boomtown

jamieuka wrote:
We're both right :)

Santa's reindeer were first named in "A Visit from St. Nicholas" (better known by its first line, "Twas the Night Before Christmas") in 1823. In the original printing, the final two reindeers'[sic] names are Dunder and Blixem, which are Dutch for "thunder and lightning." In an 1844 printing by Clement Clarke Moore, who is credited as being the author, these names are changed to Donder and Blitzen.

Apologies. Dunder, Donder, Donner, that reindeer doesn't know who he is!

My trivia question probably has a thousand variants.

Jules · The biggest Geldof fan in the world, bar none!

A reindeer with an identity crisis. Poor reindeer

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Lisa · Mondo Bongo

Jules wrote:
A reindeer with an identity crisis. Poor reindeer .

It's him, her, them, or maybe ME - and Howard Hooves????

biggrin

ArrGee · Back To Boomtown

Lisa wrote:
Jules wrote:
A reindeer with an identity crisis. Poor reindeer .
It's him, her, them, or maybe ME - and Howard Hooves????

Now that is good - more like this!

Lisa · Mondo Bongo

I'm not sure Rudolph was at the front actually - I think it was Luke, and after, Venn- his (number 1) son ...

Oh deer (!) I may have to work on that one a bit more! Or perhaps someone else could ..

jamieuka · House on Fire

Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donder, Blitzen, Rudolph, Aries, Cancer, Joey, Chandler, Sancho Panza, Sarah Palin, Jesus. (Source: Emmy The Great & Tim Wheeler)

ArrGee · Back To Boomtown

jamieuka wrote:
Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donder, Blitzen, Rudolph, Aries, Cancer, Joey, Chandler, Sancho Panza, Sarah Palin, Jesus. (Source: Emmy The Great & Tim Wheeler)

No. It's Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donder, Blitzen, Rudolph, and Olive the Other Reindeer

As in Olive the other reindeer used to laugh and call...

Anyways, what's Jesus got to do with Christmas?