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    12/01/2022 6:55 am  #1

    griff
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    Little Drummer Boy Challenge

    I usually do quite well being a bit of a holiday grump and having some hearing loss. Consider yourselves challenged.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Drummer_Boy_Challenge

    The Little Drummer Boy Challenge, styled LDBC, is an informal internet competition in the United States to avoid hearing any version of the song "The Little Drummer Boy" for the duration of the Christmas and holiday season shopping period beginning at 12:01 am on the day after Thanksgiving known as Black Friday, and extending until December 24, Christmas Eve.[1][/url] [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Drummer_Boy_Challenge#cite_note-The_Little_Drummer_Boy_Challenge_official_rules-2][2] Versions of the game have reportedly been around since as early as the 2000 holiday season, with variations including competitive elements and alternative starting and ending dates. The game has been placed in a genre referred to by one writer as "tests of obliviousness."

     

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    12/01/2022 8:13 am  #2

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    Re: Little Drummer Boy Challenge

    Conceivably I could succeed at this. The big risk factor for me is the grocery store. But I am not going there today, so game on!

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    12/01/2022 10:00 am  #3

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    Re: Little Drummer Boy Challenge

    I've already lost..... Christmas music started yesterday in the showroom.....  Christmas in Killarney playing as I type..... Heard Drummer boy yesterday... 2 or 3 different versions....

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    12/01/2022 11:10 pm  #4

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    Re: Little Drummer Boy Challenge

    You corpse-of-a-haggis-strangled-by-a-whale-penis!!!!  I have avoided this monstrosity thus far but It's almost a dead cert to be playing the next time I go into a store......

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    12/02/2022 9:08 am  #5

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    Re: Little Drummer Boy Challenge

    lumberjim wrote:

    I've already lost..... Christmas music started yesterday in the showroom.....  Christmas in Killarney playing as I type..... Heard Drummer boy yesterday... 2 or 3 different versions....

    Thoughts and prayers for your sanity.

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    12/05/2022 9:24 am  #6

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    Re: Little Drummer Boy Challenge

    Here in the UK we play Whamageddon. There's some xmas toon by wham that you have to not have heard by 25th December. I win all the time because I work from home!

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    12/05/2022 5:59 pm  #7

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    Controlling your environment is crucial!

    If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis Brandeis
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    12/09/2022 11:51 pm  #8

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    Re: Little Drummer Boy Challenge

    Come they told me
    Pa rum pum pum pumA new born king to see
    Pa rum pum pum pumOur finest gifts we bring
    Pa rum pum pum pumTo lay before the king
    Pa rum pum pum pum,
    Rum pum pum pum,
    Rum pum pum pum

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    12/10/2022 12:23 pm  #9

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    Re: Little Drummer Boy Challenge

    TLDB is one of my favorite Christmas songs, almost who ever sings it.
    You guys avoid it if you must, means more for me!

     

    12/10/2022 6:45 pm  #10

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    Re: Little Drummer Boy Challenge

    **marked safe form Drummer Boy Doom and Whamageddon so far......**

    The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity  Amelia Earhart
     

    12/10/2022 6:47 pm  #11

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    Re: Little Drummer Boy Challenge

    It might (or might not) help if you think of it at a fart porn song.  Cum they told me ...parumph........

    I'll get my coat

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    12/11/2022 8:53 am  #12

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    Also safe.

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    12/12/2022 9:59 am  #13

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    Re: Little Drummer Boy Challenge

    I lost the game, I heard the Little Drummer Boy at 11:10 CST two days ago and I was too broken up to say anything.

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    12/12/2022 6:56 pm  #14

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    Re: Little Drummer Boy Challenge

    thoughts and prayers, Fargon

    The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity  Amelia Earhart
     

    12/13/2022 7:07 am  #15

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    So much carnage!

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    12/13/2022 12:15 pm  #16

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    Re: Little Drummer Boy Challenge

    Those of us who are still uninfected should form a cult that expressly forbids any interaction or commerce with those filthy exposed creatures.

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    12/13/2022 7:25 pm  #17

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    Re: Little Drummer Boy Challenge

    no earplugs though.  .....or vaccines....  They're just tunes...............

    The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity  Amelia Earhart
     

    12/14/2022 6:57 am  #18

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    Earplugs are dependent on orthodoxy.

    If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis Brandeis
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    12/14/2022 11:05 pm  #19

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    Re: Little Drummer Boy Challenge

    Clodfobble wrote:

    Those of us who are still uninfected should form a cult that expressly forbids any interaction or commerce with those filthy exposed creatures.

    Musicians are zombies?

     

     

    12/14/2022 11:54 pm  #20

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    Re: Little Drummer Boy Challenge

    griff wrote:

    Earplugs are dependent on orthodoxy.

    I think that's only if you have an iphone?

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    12/23/2022 4:21 pm  #21

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    Marked unsafe at 2:25pm 12/23/2022. A bitter pill to swallow.

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    12/24/2022 12:40 am  #22

    monster
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    Re: Little Drummer Boy Challenge

    STILL SAFE!

    I did play Christmas music while putting the tree up today (yes, I'm weird).  I took deliberate action to ensure this track -which is usually on the list but I tolerate it -was not going to happen. 



     

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    12/24/2022 2:03 pm  #23

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    Re: Little Drummer Boy Challenge

    Having made it all the way to Christmas Eve, and not planning to leave the house until the 26th at the earliest, I will now make the rashly overconfident declaration that I will not be contaminated by The Song this year.

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    12/25/2022 3:24 pm  #24

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