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Was there something wrong with them? (lemmy.today)
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[–] [email protected] -2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

78 birds in total. They're all birds. No humans or gold.

First day of Christmas: 1 partridge in a pear tree

Second day of Christmas: 2 turtledoves

Third day of Christmas: 3 French hens

Fourth day of Christmas: 4 calling birds (blackbirds)

Fifth day of Christmas: 5 golden rings (pheasants)

Sixth day of Christmas: 6 geese a-laying

Seventh day of Christmas: 7 swans a-swimming

Eighth day of Christmas: 8 maids a-milking (magpies or cattle egret)

Ninth day of Christmas: 9 ladies dancing (lapwings)

Tenth day of Christmas: 10 lords a-leaping (cuckoos)

Eleventh day of Christmas: 11 pipers piping (sandpipers)

Twelfth day of Christmas: 12 drummers drumming (ruffled grouse)

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago

This is an impressive post. You have:

  1. Misunderstood the plain language of the song, in which each thing is given on every successive day following its first appearance (not simply one time each),
  2. Presented a niche theory about the meanings of the lyrics as if it is fact, and
  3. Missed the joke.

Other lemmy users: bring your A game, the standard has been set

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

I'm still trying to hold up that the 12 days of Christmas starts on Christmas Day, Dec 25. And finishes on the Twelfth Night (like the Shakespeare play).