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"Joy to the World, Our Teacher's Dead": What the Hell Is That All About?

December 17, 2013 4:30AM

A couple of years back I got obsessed with finding out the origin of "Jingle Bells, Batman Smells." Believe it or not I was actually able to track it down to pretty definitively to a single 5th-grade classroom in Dunkirk, Indiana. It's made we wonder what other interesting Christmas parodies I could explore. This brings me to...

Joy to the world, the teacher's dead

We barbecued her head!

What happened to the body?

We flushed it down the potty!

And round and round it went,

And round and round it went

And rouuund and round and round it went

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Jef Rouner is a contributing writer who covers politics, pop culture, social justice, video games, and online behavior. He is often a professional annoyance to the ignorant and hurtful.
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