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1. 

   Margueritem said, 16 days ago

   ‘Tis the season….

2. 

   Yukoner said, 16 days ago

   “Tis the season to be folly, fa la la la, la la la la.”

3. 

   MisngNOLA said, 16 days ago

   “Bark us all bow wows of folly…”

4. 

   Richard said, 16 days ago

   Deck the halls with Boston Charlie, Walla, Walla, Walla, Washington.

5. 

   Destiny23 said, 16 days ago

   Finally, Broomie found a man who can’t run away from her!!

6. 

   Joe Allen Doty said, 16 days ago

   Our letter carriers don’t even use a bag to carry the mail. They don’t even walk very far from the mail truck to the inside mail boxes either.

   I do find it amusing when a male letter carrier is wearing uniform shorts and the outside temp is below 50 degrees here in Oklahoma.

   But, when I lived in North Hollywood, I would sometimes see guys wearing shorts while also wearing insulated jackets during the winter months.

7. 

   fritzoid said, 16 days ago

   Since you guys started it, here are the Original, Authenticated, and Time-Tested lyrics (as are well-known, and beloved by all):

   Deck us all with Boston Charlie,
   Walla Walla, Wash. an’ KalamaZOO!
   Nora’s freezin’ on the trolley,
   Swaller Dollar Cauliflower Alley-GaROO!
   Don’t we know archaic barrel,
   Lullaby, Lilla Boy, Louisville LOU,
   Trolley Molly don’t love Harold,
   Boola Boola, Pensacoola, Hulla-BaLOO!

   Bark Us All Bow-Wows of Folly is sometimes considered a second verse, but it’s more properly accounted a knock-off, propagated by those who don’t know the words of the One True (and Totally Original) Version.

   You’ll also sometimes hear the words garbled as “Deck the halls with boughs of holly” (or something like that), but only by heathens.

8. 

   BC13 said, 16 days ago

   Poor Cliff.

9. 

   Sisyphos said, 16 days ago

   Yep. They’re in the mail daily now. Best wishes to all the brave mailcarriers!

10. 

    fritzoid said, 16 days ago

    Point taken, choll. In my defense, however, I offer:

    a) I wasn’t the first one to bring up “Boston Charlie”;

    b) I’m generally aware when I’m being pedantic (sometimes I’ll do it anyway); and

    c) I checked to make sure I had the lyrics correct before I pointed out the mistakes of the others.

11. 

    SherlockWatson said, 16 days ago

    “Check the b@lls on Uncle Charlie…” (Family Guy)

12. 

    Johanan Rakkav said, 16 days ago

    Part One (seen on icanhascheezburger):

    Don your cat in gay apparel
    Fa la la, la la la, la la la
    Put yourself in mortal peril
    Fa la la la la, la la la la

    Part Two (idle musing):

    Someone or three must’ve seen my comment on being pedantic.

    Part Three (meant for myself too):

    Be nice, children, don’t fight.

13. 

    Susan001 said, 16 days ago

    Capitalism at work!

    BTW, be careful, Mr. Mailman. You can’t see the dogs from that angle! LOL

14. 

    fritzoid said, 16 days ago

    Good King Sauerkraut, LOOK OUT!
    On your feets uneven…

    (Rakkav, the topic of rambling pedantry has been floating around this site in a number of places…)

15. 

    Joe Allen Doty said, 16 days ago

    Who is Captain Know-it-all?

    It certainly cannot be me; because I don’t claim to know everything. And I never have either!

16. 

    OldHipster said, 16 days ago

    Wow, grumpy looking mailman!

17. 

    Margueritem said, 16 days ago

    fritzoid, you’ve performed a noble service for all Pogo fans out here today. Ignore the slings and arrows of those with ADD.

18. 

    Johanan Rakkav said, 15 days ago

    fritzoid, I shouldn’t be surprised about the widespread comments about rambling pedanticism, considering the target of many of them. And thank you for the Pogo texts.

    Joe: I don’t believe you just said that.

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    MisngNOLA said, 15 days ago

    fritz, is it just me, or was your post more or less a direct quote from Pogo when the characters were arguing about their lyrics to the song? I took no offense to your post, as I believed it was such. Too bad it started the maelstrom that it did. It’s just comics and poor attempts at humor on my part.

20. 

    fritzoid said, 15 days ago

    No offense meant, MisngNOLA. It wasn’t a direct quote from Pogo, but it was in the spirit of the arguments in the strip over the proper wording.

    The lyrics I posted are, however, canonical. That’s the way they first appeared, and those are the ones that were printed pretty much once every year at some point. Beauregard was vocal in his support of “Bark Us All Bow Wows of Folly” as being the Genuine Original and Fully Authentic version, but pretty much every time he sang it it would be slightly different.

    Kelly devoted a whole book of original material (titled “Deck Us All with Boston Charlie”) to the song, which had Howland delivering a lecture on the variants of the carol, and its disputed origins. In the book, there were about a dozen different versions presented.

    Good stuff.