Caroling/Maxhell Christmas - MERGE

[Lillybee]

I noticed that very few of the residents of the nursing home looked very thrilled to hear the Maxwells singing.

[Trynn]

Well, yeah, I mean, Have you HEARD their singing?

[Handmaiden of Dog]

I noticed the same thing, Lillybee. I wonder how boring life must be if a Maxhell concert is your excitement of the day?

The oldest of the baby boomers are 68 this year so nursing homes are going to increase in size and numbers but I doubt members of the Rock and Roll generation are going to voluntarily sit through a family singing "Trust and Obey." I know I wouldn't.

[IReallyAmHopewell]

Seriously, the Maxwell's make a pelvic exam seem fun.

Is Anna Maria pregnant again? Just having too many Pepsis and Christmas cookies? Hmmm not sure from the plaid frumper.

Elissa had a bit of a cold and got to stay home? Heck I'd have a cold year-round then!

[Black Aliss]

Well, if he eats like my boys, a bib will be a necessity for at least another year. :roll:

But a double bib? That makes no sense to me at all. If you don't want food on your floor, don't have children.

Or get a dog.

[albanuadh_1]

Is Anna Maria pregnant again?

Yes, she is due end of Feb/ early March?

[singsingsing]

Seriously, the Maxwell's make a pelvic exam seem fun.

Is Anna Maria pregnant again? Just having too many Pepsis and Christmas cookies? Hmmm not sure from the plaid frumper.

Elissa had a bit of a cold and got to stay home? Heck I'd have a cold year-round then!

Anna Marie is due in March, I think.

[Palimpsest]

I noticed the same thing, Lillybee. I wonder how boring life must be if a Maxhell concert is your excitement of the day?

The oldest of the baby boomers are 68 this year so nursing homes are going to increase in size and numbers but I doubt members of the Rock and Roll generation are going to voluntarily sit through a family singing "Trust and Obey." I know I wouldn't.

I don't think my late parents would have sat through the Maxwell version of Trust eeeeend Obey or Amazing Greeeeze!

As a member of the Baby Boomer Generation, please take note, Maxwell progeny. If 20+ years from now I'm stuck in an assisted living or NF I'd like to hear:

John Lennon's Imagine.

Actually, almost any Beatles song, possibly with the exception of When I'm 64. I'll be too old to find that amusing. Maxwell's Silver Hammer would be so much better and apropos!

I suppose Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody would be way beyond your skills but we could murder it together. That would be seriously cool to do as a sing-along.

And no preaching. Thankyouverymuch. :twisted: :lol:

[thoughtful]

As a member of the Baby Boomer Generation, please take note, Maxwell progeny. If 20+ years from now I'm stuck in an assisted living or NF I'd like to hear:

John Lennon's Imagine.

If the Maxwells tried to sing Imagine, they'd implode.

[patsymae]

I'm a boomer and the only thing that adds to my dread of winding up in a nursing home is winding up in one where the only break in my day is having these people come around.

Like "the homeless," "the elderly" are not a species.

If I'm still able to type when the time comes, and this comes to me, please some compassionate FJ person come and shoot me. I'm serious.

[16strong]

I don't get the whole "making a spectacle out of the elderly" thing. They are people. It is true that their advanced age tends to involve many more health problems than their younger counterparts, but they are people all the same, who were once 6, 16, 26, 36, etc. They didn't choose to be old. They have to be, until death of some sort takes even that option away. I look around me and see how the elderly are treated, and it makes me seriously dread growing old.

Anyhoo, the elderly are the people we should respect the most because they have the greatest life experience and wealth of knowledge. The way society treats our elders like petulant children makes me ill. :ew:

[Palimpsest]

If the Maxwells tried to sing Imagine, they'd implode.

And that, my dear, is precisely my evil plan. :angelic-halofell:

I still think Maxwell's Silver Hammer is apropos.

"Maxwells' Holy Bible"

Steve was Biblical, studied metaphysical

Scripture in the home

Late nights all alone with the Bible ohh oh oh oh

Maxwell Family majoring in bullying

Visits the Nursing Home

Can we talk about Death till we make you moan?

But as we're getting ready to go

They shut the stinking door

Bang, bang, Maxwells' Holy Bible

Comes down upon our heads

Bang, bang, Maxwells' Holy Bible

Makes sure we're on our deathbeds

[uber frau]

Haha. That's awesome.

[Trynn]

I don't get the whole "making a spectacle out of the elderly" thing. They are people. It is true that their advanced age tends to involve many more health problems than their younger counterparts, but they are people all the same, who were once 6, 16, 26, 36, etc. They didn't choose to be old. They have to be, until death of some sort takes even that option away. I look around me and see how the elderly are treated, and it makes me seriously dread growing old.

Anyhoo, the elderly are the people we should respect the most because they have the greatest life experience and wealth of knowledge. The way society treats our elders like petulant children makes me ill. :ew:

Well to be fair, I have met quite a few who act like it. It's probably still not right to treat them that way, but damn if I haven wanted to bop an old person's nose once I a while!

I also don't think being old necessarily makes one wise, unfortunately. Don't get me wrong, I think old people can be very interesting to talk to, as I like learning about how they lived back in the age of dinosaurs, but I feel like a lot of them are kind of still stuck in society's attitude of the time they were young. Exhibit A: people stuck in the 50s way if thinking that man was in charge of the woman.

I'm sure there are older people out there who are a bit more flexible, I just don't know very many of them because I live in a college town.

[twin2]

If the Maxwells tried to sing Imagine, they'd implode.

Imagine there is no heaven?

That.Is.Not.Possible. THAT.IS.NOT.POSSIBLE. THAT!!IS!!NOT!!POSSIBLE!!

DADDY!! DADDY!! HELP!! SOMEONE IS SAYING THERE IS NO HEAVEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Palimpsest]

Imagine there is no heaven?

That.Is.Not.Possible. THAT.IS.NOT.POSSIBLE. THAT!!IS!!NOT!!POSSIBLE!!

DADDY!! DADDY!! HELP!! SOMEONE IS SAYING THERE IS NO HEAVEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I think the Maxwells would be more upset by "No Hell below us." They certainly imagine FJers :roasting: there for all eternity.

[kpmom]

Imagine there is no heaven?

That.Is.Not.Possible. THAT.IS.NOT.POSSIBLE. THAT!!IS!!NOT!!POSSIBLE!!

DADDY!! DADDY!! HELP!! SOMEONE IS SAYING THERE IS NO HEAVEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And no religion too!! Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!

[twin2]

And no religion too!! Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!

They would probably cry and pray and fast for 7 days for John's poor soul for writing such blasphemy.

[uber frau]

Honestly? They'd probably be quite glad if God sent him to hell. Firstly, I think they couldn't cope with the idea of a God who wouldn't condemn everyone other than their flavour of crazy to hell and,secondly, they wouldn't want to share heaven with someone like John.

[Fun-Dee]

And that, my dear, is precisely my evil plan. :angelic-halofell:

I still think Maxwell's Silver Hammer is apropos.

"Maxwells' Holy Bible"

Steve was Biblical, studied metaphysical

Scripture in the home

Late nights all alone with the Bible ohh oh oh oh

Maxwell Family majoring in bullying

Visits the Nursing Home

Can we talk about Death till we make you moan?

But as we're getting ready to go

They shut the stinking door

Bang, bang, Maxwells' Holy Bible

Comes down upon our heads

Bang, bang, Maxwells' Holy Bible

Makes sure we're on our deathbeds

In homeschool again, Maxwells make the rules again

Stevie gets annoyed.

Saying that this house isn't very clean, e-e-ean!

Dust those ceiling fans, don't make any other plans

Then we'll all have lunch.

Bean burritos without any meat, e-e-eat!

But as they're getting ready to dine,

He creeps up from behind.......

[salex]

I was going to quickly write up Sarah's Theme (and all the SAHDs and Ardnt brothers, frankly) but realized it had been written long ago...by Freddy Mercury.

I included the lyrics for any of you youngsters who don't know the song.

If the next generations of Maxwells learn this one well, they can sing it to me when I'm old-- and they should start learning paradise by the dashboard light as well... Just saying.

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an anybody find me somebody to love

Ooh, each morning I get up I die a little

Can barely stand on my feet

(Take a look at yourself) Take a look in the mirror and cry (and cry)

Lord what you're doing to me (yeah yeah)

I have spent all my years in believing you

But I just can't get no relief, Lord!

Somebody (somebody) ooh somebody (somebody)

Can anybody find me somebody to love ?

Yeah

I work hard (he works hard) every day of my life

I work till I ache in my bones

At the end (at the end of the day)

I take home my hard earned pay all on my own

I get down (down) on my knees (knees)

And I start to pray (praise the lord)

Till the tears run down from my eyes

Lord somebody (somebody), ooh somebody

(Please) Can anybody find me somebody to love ?

(He works hard)

Everyday (everyday) - I try and I try and I try

But everybody wants to put me down

They say I'm going crazy

They say I got a lot of water in my brain

Ah, got no common sense

I got nobody left to believe in

Yeah yeah yeah yeah

Oh Lord

Ooh somebody - ooh somebody

Can anybody find me somebody to love ?

(Can anybody find me someone to love)

Got no feel, I got no rhythm

I just keep losing my beat (You just keep losing and losing)

I'm OK, I'm alright (he's alright - he's alright)

I ain't gonna face no defeat (yeah yeah)

I just gotta get out of this prison cell

Someday (one day) I'm gonna be free, Lord!

Find me somebody to love

Find me somebody to love

Find me somebody to love

Find me somebody to love

Find me somebody to love

Find me somebody to love

Find me somebody to love

Find me somebody to love love love

Find me somebody to love

Find me somebody to love somebody somebody somebody somebody

Somebody find me

Somebody find me somebody to love

Can anybody find me somebody to love ?

(Find me somebody to love)

Ooh

(Find me somebody to love)

Find me somebody, somebody (find me somebody to love) somebody, somebody to love

(Find me somebody to love)

Find me, find me, find me, find me, find me

Ooh - somebody to love

(Find me somebody to love)

Ooh

(Find me somebody to love)

Find me, find me, find me somebody to love

(Find me somebody to love)

Anybody, anywhere, anybody find me somebody to love love love!

Wooo somebody find me, find me love.

Edited to put in better version of lyrics

[albanuadh_1]

Looking through Titus2 blog, I came across a picture of Sarah about age 3(?). What a cutie! Found it on p.3, Jan.7, 2011. I have seen other 'throwback' pix, which can't find now, 1) she would be approx. 18 and 2) wedding photos of Teri and Steve.

[thoughtful]

The Maxwells are not permitted to imagine much of anything, let alone the possibility of no Heaven, Hell or religion, so I had to ignore the title and go right to some more Maxwellian verbs:

Assume that there's a heaven

‘Cause Stevie says you should.

A hell where you’ll go,

Won’t matter if you’re good.

Accept, just like the Maxwells,

Living like a drone . . .

Assume there’s just our country,

The rest are full of fools.

Nothing to love or care for

And Steve’s religion rules.

Assume that all the people

Should live life like Steve...

You may say I'm a downer

But Steve wants to see this done.

He hopes someday you'll join him

And the world will give up fun.

Satan must have possession

If you’ve the simplest yen.

No need for working women,

A ruling class of men.

Steve says that all the people

Must become his Borg . . .

You may say I'm a downer

But Steve wants to see this done.

He hopes someday you'll join him

And the world will give up fun.

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I've parodied just about everything from Bach to the present in my day -- this may be first time I felt sort of dirty after doing it.

[SPHASH]

They got their pics from the concert up. Same girl that was helping at the nursing home. Me thinks John is a'courtin!

[Coconut Flan]

Is Leavenworth that boring that they can draw a crowd to hear them sing and spout scripture? I wonder if buses are brought in from several assisted living or retirement centers.