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Christmas ideas for church choir parties Christmas Carol Titles, Translated Posted December 16, 2011 It's traditional to sing "Carols" during the holidays. Many came from other coun tries, and may not have had the title you're used to ....  Move Hitherward the Entire Assembly of Those Who Are Loyal In their Belief (Usually known as Oh Come All Ye Faithful) Listen, the Celestial Messengers Produce Harmonious Sounds  (Popularly known as Hark the Herald Angels Sing)  Nocturnal Time Span of Unbroken Quietness (Generally known as Silent Night) An Emotion Excited By the Acquisition or Expectation of Goo d Given to the Terrestrial Sphere  (Known to most as Joy to the World) Embellish the Interior Passageways (Usually referred to as Deck the Halls) Exalted Heavenly Beings To Whom Harkened  (You may have heard it as Angels We Have Heard on High) Twelve O'clock On a Clement Night Witnessed Its Arrival  (More popularly known as It Came Upon a Midnight Clear) The Christmas Preceding All Others (Often known as The First Noel) Small Municipality in Judea, Southeast of Jerusalem  (Which geographers know as Oh Little Town of Bethlehem) Diminutive Masculine Master of Skin-Covered Percussionistic Cylinders  (Thankfully better known as Little Drummer Boy) Omnipotent Supreme Being Who Elicits Respite to Ecstatic Distinguished Males  (Typically known as God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen) Tranquility Upon the Terrestrial Sphere (Colloquially known as Peace on Earth) Obese Personification Fabricated of Compressed Mounds of Minute Frozen Water Crystals  (More commonly referred to as Frosty the Snowman) Expectation of Arrival To Populated Area By Mythical, Masculine Perennial  Gift Giver  (Known to most kids as Santa Claus is Coming to Town) Natal Celebration Devoid of Colour, Rather Albino, as a Hallucinatory Phenomeno n For Me  (Which Bing titled White Christmas) In Awe of the Nocturnal Time Span Characterized by Religiosity  (Referred to by Christians as Oh Holy Night) Geographic State of Fantasy During the Season of Mother Nature's Dormancy  (Generally known as Winter Wonderland) The First Person Nominative Plural of Triumvirate of Far Eastern Heads of Sta te  (In the "Orient" they are mostly referred to as We Three Kings) Tintinnabulation of Vacillating Pendulums in Inverted, Metallic, Resonant Cup s  (Most commonly known as Jingle Bells) In a Distant Location the Existence of an Improvised Unit of Newborn

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Christmas ideas for church choir parties

Christmas Carol Titles, Translated Posted December 16, 2011It's traditional to sing "Carols" during the holidays. Many came from other countries,and may not have had the title you're used to .... Move Hitherward the Entire Assembly of Those Who Are Loyal In their Belief

(Usually known as Oh Come All Ye Faithful)Listen, the Celestial Messengers Produce Harmonious Sounds

(Popularly known as Hark the Herald Angels Sing) Nocturnal Time Span of Unbroken Quietness

(Generally known as Silent Night)An Emotion Excited By the Acquisition or Expectation of Goo

d Given to the

Terrestrial Sphere (Known to most as Joy to the World)

Embellish the Interior Passageways

(Usually referred to as Deck the Halls)Exalted Heavenly Beings To Whom Harkened (You may have heard it as Angels We Have Heard on High)

Twelve O'clock On a Clement Night Witnessed Its Arrival (More popularly known as It Came Upon a Midnight Clear)

The Christmas Preceding All Others(Often known as The First Noel)

Small Municipality in Judea, Southeast of Jerusalem (Which geographers know as Oh Little Town of Bethlehem)

Diminutive Masculine Master of Skin-Covered Percussionistic Cylinders (Thankfully better known as Little Drummer Boy)

Omnipotent Supreme Being Who Elicits Respite to Ecstatic Distinguished Males (Typically known as God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen)

Tranquility Upon the Terrestrial Sphere(Colloquially known as Peace on Earth)

Obese Personification Fabricated of Compressed Mounds of Minute Frozen

Water Crystals (More commonly referred to as Frosty the Snowman)

Expectation of Arrival To Populated Area By Mythical, Masculine Perennial

Gift Giver (Known to most kids as Santa Claus is Coming to Town)

Natal Celebration Devoid of Colour, Rather Albino, as a Hallucinatory

Phenomenon For Me (Which Bing titled White Christmas)

In Awe of the Nocturnal Time Span Characterized by Religiosity (Referred to by Christians as Oh Holy Night)

Geographic State of Fantasy During the Season of Mother Nature's Dormancy (Generally known as Winter Wonderland)

The First Person Nominative Plural of Triumvirate of Far Eastern Heads of State (In the "Orient" they are mostly referred to as We Three Kings)

Tintinnabulation of Vacillating Pendulums in Inverted, Metallic, Resonant Cups (Most commonly known as Jingle Bells)

In a Distant Location the Existence of an Improvised Unit of Newborn

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Children's Slumber Furniture (Perhaps you heard it as Away in a Manger)

Proceed Forth Declaring Upon a Specific Geological Alpine Formation (Typically known as Go Tell It on a Mountain)

Jovial Yuletide Desired For the Second Person Singular or Plural By Us (More commonly known as We Wish You a Merry Christmas)

The 12 Days of Christmas After Reengineering Posted December 21, 2011Global challenges require the North Pole to continue to take more competitive st

eps. Effectiveimmediately, the following economy measures are to take place

in the "Twelve Days of Christmas" subsidiary.The partridge will be retained, but the pear tree never turned out to be the cash crop forecasted.It will be replaced by a plastic plant, providing savings in maintenance costs.The two turtle doves represent a redundancy that is simply not cost effective. In addition,their romance during the working hours could not be condoned under the company "zero tolerance"sexual harassment policy. Both positions are, therefore, eliminated.The three French hens will remain intact and we may actually expand the number of hens used.A recent time-motion-profitability study proved that using illegal migratory fowl is extremely profitableas it eliminates the company's need to provide employee benefits because the hens do not meetfederal residency requirements.The four calling birds were replaced by an automated voice mail system, with a call waiting option.An analysis is underway to determine who the birds have been calling, how often

and how long they talked, and whether the calling function can be replaced by e-mail.The five golden rings have been put on hold by the Board of Directors. Maintaining a portfoliobased on one commodity could have negative implications for institutional investors. Diversificationinto other precious metals as well as a mix of T-bills and high technology stocks appear to be in order.The six geese-a-laying constitutes a luxury which can no longer be afforded. Ithas long been feltthat the production rate of one egg per goose per day is an example of their decline in productivity.Three geese will be let go, and an upgrading in the selection procedure by the Personnel Departmentwill assure management that from now on every goose it gets will be a good one.The seven swans-a-swimming is obviously a number chosen in better times. Their functionis primarily decorative. Replacement mechanical swans are on order. The current

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swanswill be retrained to learn some new strokes to better enhance their outplacement.As you know, the eight maids-a-milking concept has been under heavy scrutiny bythe EEOC.A male/female balance in the workforce is being sought. The more militant maids

consider this a dead-end job with no u1pward mobility.Nine ladies dancing has always been an odd number. This function will be phasedoutas these individuals grow older and can no longer do the steps. Let the reengineering teamhasten to add that company policy prohibits age discrimination, and any layoffsmust be justifiedusing a business case to preclude any employee lawsuits.Ten Lords-a-Leaping is overkill. The high costs of Lords plus the expense of international air travelprompted the Compensation Committee to suggest replacing this group with ten out-of-work

congressmen. While leaping ability may be somewhat sacrificed because of the high average weightof retired congressmen, significant savings should result due to the number of congressmen leftunemployed after the recent election.Eleven pipers piping and twelve drummers drumming is a simple case of the band getting too big.A substitution with a string quartet, a cutback on new music and the elimination of uniformswill produce significant savings to the bottom line.Though incomplete, studies by our consultants indicate that stretching deliveries over twelve daysis inefficient. If we can drop-ship in one day using a "just in time" system, service levelswill be improved and we can expect a substantial reduction in the use of part-time personnel.English: the Perfect Language Posted August 10, 2011We'll begin with a box, and the plural is boxes,But the plural of ox becomes oxen, not oxes.One fowl is a goose, but two are called geese,Yet the plural of moose should never be meese.You may find a lone mouse or a nest full of mice,Yet the plural of house is houses, not hice.If the plural of man is always called men,Why shouldn't the plural of pan be called pen?If I speak of my foot and show you my feet,And I give you a boot, would a pair be called beet?If one is a tooth and a whole set are teeth,Why shouldn't the plural of booth be called beeth?

Then one may be that, and three would be those,Yet hat in the plural would never be hose,And the plural of cat is cats, not cose.We speak of a brother and also of brethren,But though we say mother, we never say methren.Then the masculine pronouns are he, his and him,But imagine the feminine: she, shis and shim!Let's face it, English is a crazy language.There is no egg in eggplant nor ham in hamburger;neither apple nor pine in pineapple.English muffins weren't invented in England.

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We take English for granted, but if we explore its paradoxes,we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square,and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.

And why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing,grocers don't groce and hammers don't ham?Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend.If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it?If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught?If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat?Sometimes I think all the folks who grew up speaking Englishshould be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane.In what other language do people recite at a play and play at a recital?We ship by truck but send cargo by ship.We have noses that run and feet that smell.We park in a driveway and drive in a parkway.And how can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same,while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites?

You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burnsdown, in which you fill in a form by filling it out, and in which an alarm goes off by going on.And, in closing, if Father is Pop, how come Mother's not Mop?