Christmas Carols on an Ice Cream Truck

[VenusRising]

I just heard the ice cream truck go by my apartment. They go by every day a couple of times a day. I think this is a different truck from previous years because I still hear the "Pop Goes the Weasel" song from the old truck every day. I think a new truck has moved into the neighborhood. And I don't mind, really, because I like ice cream as much as the next girl, but do they need to play "O Come All Ye Faithful" and "Silent Night" in June? I don't think their ice cream has any holy properties, but I can't buy any in case it's infected with the Freeper virus.

Well, Merry June-mas, everyone!

:hi:

[Critters2]

1. So it's moving in on the old ice cream truck's territory?

Makes me wonder how they mark territory.

And yes, the Christmas carols are just weird. Here, they play hymns and what not--Amazing Grace, Jesus Loves Me, stuff like that. Something about that seems just wrong.

[VenusRising]

2. There are two trucks now.

I think they are independently owned trucks.

I have no idea how they mark territory. I guess one is for the "Carol" fans and the other is for the "Weasel" fans.

:shrug:

[pagerbear]

3. Would you rather hear "Dreidel dreidel dreidel"?

[VenusRising]

4. Maaaaaybe.

:P

Will the driver say "Mazel Tov" and have kosher ice cream?

[deucemagnet]

5. That is so wrong.

I don't need any reminders of that soul-crushing, two-month ordeal called the "holiday season" in June!

[VenusRising]

8. They are trying to sweeten the memories.

Or something like that. :eyes:

[Quakerfriend]

6. OMG! Undergroundpanther just posted the same

thing here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=245x46317

Do you live in Md??

[VenusRising]

7. No. I live in Ohio.

Weird.

They are coming.

:hide:

[Kingofalldems]

9. I hear and see the same thing

every night. I think it's the Good Humor truck.

[VenusRising]

12. It's kind of creepy, no?

Maybe just me.

:shrug:

[Left Is Write]

10. Weird.

The ice cream truck in our old neighborhood used to play Music Box Dancer. I loved that.

[VenusRising]

11. The old truck plays that every now and then,

I used to love to play that on the piano. Too bad I forgot how. :(

[GoddessOfGuinness]

13. Ours plays Swan Lake

Too weird.

[VenusRising]

15. Swan Lake isn't bad.

At least it doesn't conjure up memories of Christmas.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

20. Still, it's odd to visualize twirling ballerinas with Good Humor bars...

This truck has Xmas carols, patriotic tunes, and the standard ice cream truck tune as well.

I wonder if they can get new tunes from the same place you get new cellphone rings...

[SPKrazy]

14. ours plays creepy sounding music

and it has some creepy looking people in it

i remember the ice cream truck and people in it wore white clothes, and hats

now they loook like they walked in off the prarie after fighting a fire, and they are still smoking


:hug:

[VenusRising]

17. Are you sure they are selling ice cream?

Maybe they are....












:scared:


:hi::hug:

[SPKrazy]

19. no bald kitty zombies

:rofl:


:hug:

[reyd reid reed]

16. There's one that takes a turn

in the neighborhood near where one of my kids has baseball practice. It plays christmas stuff, too.

I thought I was losing it the other night when I heard it the first time.

:crazy:

[VenusRising]

18. Maybe they have a deal with therapists

to trigger holiday stress in the summer to bump up the therapy numbers.

I thought I was going crazy when I heard it, too.

:rofl:

[mikeytherat]

21. Our guy has the first 15 seconds of "Turkey and the Straw." and THAT'S IT!

The first 15 seconds of that stupid tune, with a few cheesy sound effects thrown in, over, and over, and over, and over...

mikey_the_rat

[Smooth Operator]

22. all part

of the War on Christmas in June.

[mikeytherat]

24. I'll bet you're right.

His truck used to play "Fur Elise," which was played by Schroeder in A Charlie Brown Christmas. Wow, only TWO degrees of separation!

Welcome to DU, by the way.

mikey_the_rat

[MistressOverdone]

23. There was a huge to-do

in my Northeast hometown when the truck played the theme from the Godfather in the Italian neighborhood and Camptown Races in the African American neighborhood. Now I understand it just plays Twinkle Twinkle Little Star.