Read this whole post, because I need your help with the meatball.
I don’t enjoy the holidays much. There are exceptions (I made it to a party last night and hopefully committed only minor social blunders) but I’m low-key to the point of denial most of the time. Oh, I like getting together with some of my relatives and playing games and having a nice meal, but (just as with Thanksgiving in my country) I don’t like being told that I have to do it on a particular day. Or being bombarded with how much more holiday-related fun other people with more energy and different families seem to be having. Or the endless question “Are you ready for the holidays?”
As if they were a college final exam or something.
At any rate, silly humor helps me when I am stressed, so I turn to the meatball challenge. The way it works is, you take a well-known line from literature or poetry and substitute the word “meatball” at an appropriate place.
“But soft! What light through yonder meatball breaks?”
“O Meatball! My Meatball!”
“Because I could not stop for a meatball, it kindly stopped for me…”
“Quoth the Meatball: Nevermore.”
You get the idea. Why “meatball?” I have no idea. It just works, maybe because it’s so arbitrary and pointless.
Right now I’m trying to do it a bit differently. You see, Christmas carols are one of the few things I enjoy about this time of year. Archaic language, religious references and all, I love that they’re songs a lot of people know. So I’m doing the meatball challenge with holiday song titles. It’s fun, but I’m running out of carols I know. So if anyone can help, please comment a title for me. Maybe even share so I can get more. Thanks in advance.
Joy to the Meatball!
I kind of like “Remember Christ our meatball/was born on Christmas Day,” but I’m guessing some humorless folks might take offense. (The nerve!) How about “Hark the herald meatballs sing, glory to the newborn king”? Or “Good King Wenceslas looked out/on his meatball Steven”? (I might need to make some meatballs this week so I can name them all Steven.)
The little drummer meatball