…my true love brought to me twelve fat ones singing.
The saying goes “it’s not over till the fat lady sings”. Now, as we are gender neutral we just have 12 fat ones. If I look carefully they are not even fat. But they are singing and they are singing badly. I was dreading all along that they will perform their new song at the end. With many other things you can say it’s so bad that it’s good. But no way can you find anything good in this video. But thanks anyway for supporting the Dedes.
… my true love brought to me Eleven mittens giving, ten actors filming, nine chums relaxing, eight puppets groaning, seven Dedes drinking, six punters paying, five golden things, four thrown-off frocks, three strange friends, two purple gloves and a chicken in a dead tree.
With the eleventh day we are nearing the end of the Christmas season. When the Dedes became aware there are only two more days they got into overdrive, they still have so many ideas what they want to give. Now of course, they are regretting that they lost one day drinking and one day groaning. I hope one day they will learn that they can’t bring back lost time. Anyway to speed things up they decided on 11 mittens giving today.
“Isn’t one of them taking? The empty one right in the middle!” I asked when they delivered their present. “No, you silly! You always misinterpret our actions” the messenger answered annoyed. “this one wanted to give a hand!”
“No” clarified the mitten “I wanted to apply myself”
What do you think the eleven mittens contributed?
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…my true love brought to me Ten actors filming, nine chums relaxing, eight puppets groaning, seven Dedes drinking, six punters paying, five golden things, four thrown-off frocks, three strange friends, two purple gloves and a chicken in a dead tree.
Well well well, I am so glad they are back to work, however, it wasn’t really ten actors filming it was more like ten directors directing. Or as it was a film about one of the recipes from the Artist’s Survival Cookbook just think about the old saying about too many cooks…. Very quickly a fight started over who is allowed to wear the apron or sit in the director’s chair. In the end seven of them were moping and the film was made by only 3. But as I said, I am happy that they tackled a new project. We will have to wait and see how the film turned out.
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… my true love brought to me Nine chums relaxing, eight puppets groaning, seven Dedes drinking, six punters paying, five golden things, four thrown-off frocks, three strange friends, two purple gloves and a chicken in a dead tree.
In my opinion they don’t look particularly relaxed but rather staged. What do you think? The only one that seems truly relaxed, is Philosopher, the one the far left. I watched them when they were trying to take the picture. Believe you me, it was hard work and very counter productive to what they wanted to convey. They moved at least three times before they ended up on the red sofa. By this time they were so over the whole process and they couldn’t care less what they looked like. What I would wish they would bring one day: More patience!
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… my true love brought to me Eight puppets groaning, seven Dedes drinking, six punters paying, five golden things, four thrown-off frocks, three strange friends, two purple gloves and a chicken in a dead tree.
No surprise here either. Eight puppets groaning: Seven because they have overdone it last night and one because he was sober and had to do the clean-up.
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…my true love brought to me Seven Dedes drinking, six punters paying, five golden things, four thrown-off frocks, three strange friends, two purple gloves and a chicken in a dead tree.
No surprises today, after all it is New Year’s Eve and some of the Dedes like to party :). HAPPY NEW YEAR to all our friends. May 2016 be full of fun and laughter and all your wishes become true!
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…my true love brought to me six punters paying, five golden things, four thrown-off frocks, three strange friends, two purple gloves and a chicken in a dead tree.
In the original carol, the true love had send presents up till now. Strangely after day 5 it changes to activities that can be watched or joined. On the sixth day “Six geese a laying” were sent. Having backyard chickens I definitely would value the laying fowls. My present of course was different: Six Dedes showed up with bundles of money. Maybe they had found the geese from the original song and they were of the kind that laid golden eggs. Or maybe the Dedes adopted the Chinese custom to repay debts before the New Year so they can start with a clean slate. Pity only that it was some sort of monopoly money, God knows where they found that.
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…my true love brought to me five goldend things, four thrown-off frocks, three strange friends, two purple gloves and a chicken in a dead tree.
This time I get it! This is soooo typical Dede, they always come up with a cheap, homemade solution. In the original carol, the true love sends five golden rings. And what does L’Artiste do? He rummages through the recycle box in his studio, finds five odd things and spray paints them gold. Ah well, I guess it is the thought that counts!
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…my true love brought to me Four thrown-off frocks, three strange friends, two purple gloves and a chicken in a dread tree.
These four chums threw away their beautiful and very useful black robes, sorry Rae! (Rae made the frocks for the Dedes, so they got bodies). And now they are sitting once again heads only on their sticks, just as they were invented. Three of them seem to be very happy to be No bodies again. Only Bad Conscience, the one in the front, looks uncomfortable. But why do they bring me their frocks? Does this mean they want to slip back into oblivion. Do I push them too hard?
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…my true love brought to me three strange friends, two purple gloves and a chicken in a dead tree.
Three strange friends? What is this about? Aren’t all friends strange to some degree? One of this crowd is obviously severely depressed and they found the skeleton in my closet. Maybe they want to remind me of one of the Dede’s mottoes: Embrace Diversity! Or maybe it is a hint I should appreciate my friends more!
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