The 12 days of Christmas

Can we talk for a moment about the song "The 12 days of Christmas"?

I love this song.  I love the parodies people have made of it.  I love it in general but I do have a few questions.  So, here we go.

1. Is this really a wish list that anyone would really want from their "true love"?  I mean seriously if you break it down mainly you just have poultry, some artsy fartsy people and a bit of jewelry.  I pretty much see it as day 5 was the only day that was really productive for the "true love".

2. My entire life I thought they were saying 4 calling birds, and in my defense if you listen to the muppets version with John Denver I'm pretty sure they were in agreement with me, but when you look it up it is actually 4 collie birds.  The collie bird is a common black bird.  Apparently the true love went cheap with day 4.

3. After the "true love" provides no less than 23 birds to the object of affection he moves into people.  PEOPLE!!!  Who gives a person as a present?   I mean except for the random stripper, of course.  I personally don't care for someone milking anything as a gift.   I will go so far as to say if my true love were to take the 9 ladies dancing, 10 lords a leaping, 11 pipers piping and 12 drummers drumming and put them together for a lovely flash mob of some sort then that right there would most definitely be on my wish list because Mama loves a good flash mob!!

Merry Christmas my friends!!!