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Person who just enjoys singing and wants to lend a sense of musical joy to the event | 10 | 55.56% | |
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01-06-2013, 09:16 PM | #1 |
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Person who harmonizes during a rendition of "Happy Birthday"
Your vote in this poll please
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01-06-2013, 09:55 PM | #2 |
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It depends on if they do it well.
And please note that it is impossible to harmonize well if the rest of the room is off-key. |
01-06-2013, 09:55 PM | #3 |
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We need more choices. I wouldn't call them a douche bag, I'd call them a wierdo. Who is it? An escapee from a barbershop quartet?
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01-06-2013, 11:17 PM | #4 |
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Said person is only a douchebag if they can't carry a tune in a bucket.
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01-06-2013, 11:38 PM | #5 |
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A showoff ... which I guess is closer to douchebag.
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01-07-2013, 02:21 AM | #6 |
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Always willing... make that grateful, to have someone else draw the attention during the sing.
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01-07-2013, 08:39 AM | #7 |
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Doesn't faze me one way or the other. I'm used to being around musical people.
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01-07-2013, 09:17 AM | #8 |
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A bit full of themselves. But not necessarily a bad person. I can picture Bill Murray doing this in a funny sort of way, and he's a good guy.
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01-07-2013, 11:44 AM | #9 |
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Douchebag test: Can you picture Bill Murray doing it? If so, then no.
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01-07-2013, 11:46 AM | #10 |
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Sorry folks! That person is likely to be me ...
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01-07-2013, 11:48 AM | #11 |
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If so, then thank you, limey.
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01-07-2013, 11:57 AM | #12 |
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This is why I asked, because I generally do that, but I don't want to be a douchbag!! I had no idea some people don't like it.
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01-07-2013, 12:34 PM | #13 |
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I have a followup question: how often do you, as an adult with no children, have the opportunity to sing Happy Birthday to someone? I have to do it at kids' parties all the time, but other than that, I cannot think of a time since high school that I've sung it. I used to work at one place that was small enough to celebrate employees' birthdays, but they had this weird tradition where this little windup toy would play the song and everyone would just shout the person's name at the appropriate moment.
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01-07-2013, 12:52 PM | #14 |
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Maybe like once every three years. People get big deal birthdays sometimes, like ages that end in a zero.
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01-07-2013, 12:58 PM | #15 |
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Ah! I take it back. We sang at Mr. Clod's grandmother's 100th birthday. And harmonizing would have been perfectly fine then, because they're big on singing in their family. On the other hand, at a kids' party, most parents are only half-heartedly singing because they have to, in which case harmonizing would probably be frowned upon.
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