Tag:Allan Sherman

In the comedic song “The twelve gifts of Christmas” writer Allan Sherman playfully lists the gifts he will be exchanging. The disastrous list includes the automatic vegetable slicer that works when you see it on television, but not when you get it home, An indoor plastic birdbath, A statue of naked lady, with a clock where her stomach ought to be, And a Japanese transistor radio. This humor strikes a cord in all of us who have made hasty last