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20 Dec 2025, 10:50 am

Why are they emphasized?

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20 Dec 2025, 11:29 am

One for each finger I guess.

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20 Dec 2025, 1:46 pm

What's that?

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20 Dec 2025, 2:37 pm

Ziluz wrote:

What's that?

It's a lyric from the old Christmas carol "The Twelve Days of Christmas."

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20 Dec 2025, 2:45 pm

ArcticVixen wrote:

Ziluz wrote:

What's that?

It's a lyric from the old Christmas carol "The Twelve Days of Christmas."

I authentically thought at first that it's the reference to the five gold rings of the Planeteers from the cartoon about the Captain Planet :lol:

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20 Dec 2025, 3:42 pm

Irulan wrote:

ArcticVixen wrote:

Ziluz wrote:

What's that?

It's a lyric from the old Christmas carol "The Twelve Days of Christmas."

I authentically thought at first that it's the reference to the five gold rings of the Planeteers from the cartoon about the Captain Planet :lol:

I myself never grew up with original either and instead heard a parody of it from a All State Mayhem guy commercial. Unsure why it's not on YouTube but here it is. https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xmk59b

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20 Dec 2025, 3:48 pm

I just checked on Youtube the intro for Captain Planet too The one in which Gaia gives the five gold rings to her young henchmen

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20 Dec 2025, 3:53 pm

It's not something I've ever thought about really

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20 Dec 2025, 5:37 pm

When I was a kid I used to hear the Muppets (from The Muppet Show) singing the 12 Days of Christmas, and Miss Piggy would sing, "FIVE... GOLD... RINGS... BA DUMP BUMP BUMP!!" It was pretty funny.

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20 Dec 2025, 7:19 pm

I heard a parody of this song around Christmas time a LONG time ago on a localish TV station from around New Orleans. The song was New Orleans & Louisiana themed. That lyric was Fried Onion Rings :mrgreen:

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20 Dec 2025, 8:11 pm

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When I was a kid I used to hear the Muppets (from The Muppet Show) singing the 12 Days of Christmas, and Miss Piggy would sing, "FIVE... GOLD... RINGS... BA DUMP BUMP BUMP!!" It was pretty funny.

I was just watching the video to that song, yesterday afternoon. :lol:

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22 Dec 2025, 9:46 am

Price of gold has reached record high
Maybe that's why they make a big deal of it

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd74ldr2zryo

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22 Dec 2025, 10:04 am

There have been many versions of this song across history and different countries. The most well-known tune was first written down around 1903 by a musician called Frederick Austin. He is thought to have changed the "five gold rings" bit.

Some possible reasons:

Gold! Wow! Fancy!

Five is an important number to humans, due to their hands having five digits.

It helps break up the song a bit, so you're not repeating the same tiny musical phrase 11 times in a row. Just six times in a row, which is bad enough. Hence why the second half of the tune also changes once you get past the 5th day.

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22 Dec 2025, 3:36 pm

I'll be enjoying my five golden rings in February when I'm watching The Olympics.

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26 Dec 2025, 1:54 pm

I used to hear another song on the radio called "The Twelve Pains of Christmas", and they would sing "The fifth thing at Christmas that's such a pain to me... FIVE MONTHS OF BILLS!"

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