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A Very Special STUMP Holiday Episode
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A Very Special STUMP Holiday Episode

It's short, I promise

Have a Happy Holiday surprise! Meep regales you with a few Christmas/Winter song parodies in lieu of a normal STUMP podcast. Lyrics are below, by Meep (and some by Stu).

Ho Ho Ho, Merry Christmas!

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from 2014, our son wishes you a Happy Merry Everything!

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Parody Lyrics

(with links for the technical terms, especially the sumo)

On the 1st day of Christmas, STUMP podcast gave to me….

A handful of Christmas parodies…..

Working with the WONDER database

[to the tune of “Walking in a Winter Wonderland”]

Twitter dings, I’m downloading

While there’s deaths that I’m coding

My trends all depend

On the ICD-10

Working with the WONDER database

In CSV I get the data

And it’s partial and provisional

Some is censored and some is projected

So I gotta be careful til it’s all final

So I wait while it’s collecting

And the changes I’m detecting

I just have this plea

To the CDC

Keep let us working with the WONDER database


On the 2nd day of Christmas, STUMP podcast gave to me….

A scatterplot of sumo

And a handful of Christmas parodies….

God Rest Ye Merry Rikishi

[to the tune of “God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen”]

[written by both Meep & Stu]

God rest ye merry rikishi

Let nothing ye dismay

For ye shall bulk up heartily

Eating chanko–nabe

Avoid henka and mono-ii they

Make bad basho days

Oooo tidings of ganbatte; hakkeyoi!

Hakkeyoi

Ooo tidings of ganbatte; hakkeyoi!

On the 3rd day of Christmas, STUMP podcast gave to me….

3 crashing spreadsheets

2 sumo graphs

And a handful of Christmas parodies

Excel I have crashed again

[To the tune of “Angels we have heard on high”]

Excel I have crashed again

With XLOOKUP()s and linked files

Break out audit tools with pain

IFERROR() is not my style

SORT() as a

function is so awesome

But ‘tis not

When the cells have #DIV/0!s

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On the 4th day of Christmas STUMP podcast gave to me….

4 unfunded pensions

3 crashing spreadsheets

2 sumo graphs

And a handful of Christmas parodies

Oh Pension Plan

[To the tune of “Oh Tannenbaum”]

Oh pension plan

Oh pension plan

What bailout will you ask for

Oh pension plan

Oh pension plan

What bailout will you ask for

When COVID hit, and deaths went up

But then assets dropped and now you’re stuck

Oh pension plan oh pension plan

What bailout will you ask for


On the 5th day of Christmas STUMP podcast gave to me….

Free posts for all

4 unfunded pensions

3 crashing spreadsheets

2 sumo graphs

And a handful of Winter song parodies’

Blogging STUMP

[to the tune of “Jingle Bells”]

Posting here at STUMP

As a smart-ass every week

Using GIFs and graphs

Being myself as a geek

Reading all the news

Not just latest fads

When you note long-term

Trends and analyze

Think of value that that adds!

Oh!

Blogging STUMP, blogging STUMP.

Blogging all these years

Been doing it before substack

And will after, never fear

That’s if I’m here—ya never know

Memento mori, y’all

But I’m having fun

And when I’m done

I’ll be happy with it all!

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HO HO HO!

Merry Christmas!

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See y’all in the New Year! (for the next podcast episode)

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STUMP - Death and Taxes
Meep (Mary Pat Campbell) talks about mortality trends and/or public finance issues, usually with a connection to current events.