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!
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….
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
Make bad basho days
Oooo tidings of ganbatte; 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
On the 4th day of Christmas STUMP podcast gave to me….
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….
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
And will after, never fear
That’s if I’m here—ya never know
But I’m having fun
And when I’m done
I’ll be happy with it all!
HO HO HO!
Merry Christmas!
See y’all in the New Year! (for the next podcast episode)
A Very Special STUMP Holiday Episode