Brett Banter

For the 25 days leading into Christmas, Brett Inc. is talking music. Christmas music. Sit back and enjoy.

Major faux pas on our part, we almost forgot the McKenzie Brothers’ 12 Days of Christmas. Yes, this is more popular in the North, but what a great song as actors Dave Thomas and Rick Moranis butcher the 12 Days of Christmas as decoded by two drunken Canadians.

It was from their album Great White North, in which the gifts included eight comic books, seven packs of smokes (cigarettes), six packs of two-four ("two-four" is Canadian slang for a case of 24 bottles of beer), five golden toques, four pounds of back bacon, three (pieces of) French toast, two turtlenecks, and a beer in a tree (identified early on in the song merely as "a beer"). They did not get past the eighth day; Bob wanted to include a dozen (12) doughnuts on the twelfth day.