'The 12 Days of Christmas' Is a Sickening Chronicle of Consumerist Excess
by Joel Cunningham from Lifehacker on (#5B8CR)
Judging by its seasonal omnipresence even 240 years after it was written, The Twelve Days of Christmas" is undoubtedly one of the most enduring of all holiday tunes, perhaps because it is both catchy, slightly annoying, and fun to sing (a ranking by the New York Public Library likened it to the yuletide equivalent...