Happy Christmas, You Maggot

According to the results of a VH-1 poll, the British have selected their favorite Christmas song and it's not a traditional classic like White Christmas by Bing Crosby. Collecting one-fourth of all online votes, Fairytale Of New York, by The Pogues and late British singer Kirsty MacColl, was preferred to all others.

Rather than lyrics about snowmen and sledging [sic], MacColl and Pogues singer and songwriter Shane MacGowan sing alternate lines as a warring pair of lovers serenaded by drunks and policemen as they walk through New York on Christmas night.

"You scumbag, you maggot," begins one verse, ending with a couplet that might well have shocked Crosby: "Happy Christmas your arse/I pray god its our last."

Their poll obviously was flawed. It is, however, instructive. Evidence now has been gathered to suggest that Brits who listen to VH-1 and participate in polls are likely to be heartless and disrespectful idiots.

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