The Christmas Video They Don’t Want You to Know About

Dec 22nd, 2008

Stringed popcorn doesn’t last more than two minutes at the Nanny Goats household, let alone make it onto the Christmas tree. I’m busy stringing one end while cousin Billy Goat is gnawing on the other end. He’s such a pig.

I feel like a ten-year old at Christmas. Why? Because I have yet to figure out how to work my video camera and free video editing software well enough to produce something for the holidays worth watching. So I end up with something that looks childishly strung together on one end and chewed up on the other.

And because of this, you would think that nobody would be paying attention to the Christmas video I made of our little group outing to see Christmas lights and posted on the internet last year. Many months went by before I was accosted via email by some video hosting service who shall remain nameless but it rhymes with “BlueBoob”.

They made some outrageous claim that I was using copyrighted material and that I could get in super D duper big trouble. I mean, I know Disney can be very proprietary, but Mickey wasn’t on MY lawn with Santa lights, so why are they after me? But then I remembered I had included a song that may or may not have been “borrowed” to accompany this lame video.

BlueBoob must have realized just who they were dealing with – a silly and harmless little blogger to whom nobody pays any attention — and decided in their caustic letter to me that they would “let me” continue to keep the video up unless something or other, I don’t remember what else they said.

So, for those of you interested in catching this video before I am forced to cease and desist, I give you Nanny Goat’s Virtually Banned Holiday Music Video (less than 3 minutes) (Also? Dramamine tablets will be provided for those prone to motion sickness due to my wonky cameraman skilz):

If the above link doesn’t work, the direct video link is here.

Goat Thing of the Day

Tracy at I Hate My Message Board showed me this picture of her son with my buddies:

Jenn at Of Cabbages and Kings gave me a new set of knickers. Boy, I sure am getting a lot of panties for Christmas!

Elizabeth from A Nut in a Nutshell thinks NGIP is fabulous.

Pooba thinks NGIP is exceedingly charming.

Valerie Gail at It’s a Wonderful Life – gave me the butterfly award.

Thank you, ladies - I appreciate it!

Posted in: awards, goats, holidays.

http://ladyfi.wordpress.com Lady Fi

The first to comment! Wow! Dare I comment on a blog that is now infringing or not copyright laws or in-laws!
The link doesn’t work for me – it says your video has now been removed. Dang – I was so looking forward to a bit of unlawfulness!
Oh well, back to trying to peek into my Christmas presents!
http://www.yayastuff.blogspot.com Yaya

Great video!
http://waitresswheresmymartini.blogspot.com/ vodkamom

That was great! Are you SURE that I wasn’t your cameraperson? It looks like what I might film after a martini!!!
http://suburbsanity.blogspot.com/ Debbie

Thank goodness they are making you take that off. Once we had world peace and poverty licked, I knew this video was #1 on our nation’s most wanted list.
http://www.dr-wifey.blogspot.com dr. wifey

whew, i am having seizures from all the fast moving lights
http://adivashammer.blogspot.com/ THE MUSE

I dimmed the lights…got my OWN popcorn and turned on the VID…
LOL
loved it…and no motion sickness here…
just JOY!
http://robynsonlineworld.blogspot.com Robyns Online World

Wow – great light displays around you. We’ve got a bunch of scrooges around here with not many lights (sigh).
Glad to see I’m not the only person addicted to zooming in and out with the video camera
http://blissfulblunders.blogspot.com Blissful Babe

Um. What are you trying to pull, lady?
There’s no link. No video. NOTHIN’. The video gustapo must have gotten to ya.
Well. These things happen.
Happy Hay Munching.
http://georgieinba.blogspot.com Georgie

Look at you breaking laws kickin ass and takin names I was LMAO@blueboob
Great video
http://www.sassafrasanne.blogspot.com sassafrasanne

love it!
you are so bad@ss!
p.s. this should make it on COPS or something….
p.p.s. hope you dont get “arrested” for your usage of Christmas music!
fa la la la la………..
xo
a
http://dabbledabbledo.blogspot.com/ Cassie

Crap! The authorities just knocked on my door! They wanted to know if I was in any way linked to the one and only person in the world to make a Holiday Christmas Light Tour video with music to it! I said “me no speak the English”! I think they are watching my house now! What have you done!?
Ha-I think it was great! It’s a lovely song, and the houses looked fab!
http://www.aduckinherpond.blogspot.com Blond Duck

How rude of YouTube. Don’t they know goats in panties have rights too?
http://decortoadore.blogspot.com Laura Ingalls Gunn

Two words for Blueboob: Bah Humbug!
http://mommamiameaculpa.com meleah rebeccah

I LOVED the video. I hope BlueBoob lets you KEEP it up!
http://janefay.blogspot.com/ jane!

You rock, Nanny. We got a new video camera last Christmas… the hard drive is now full… um… what next?
Those little mini dvds are kind of expensive for recording but my video fairy godmother hasn’t been able to offload the hard drive. Do you think I should have saved the instructions? Who knew it would be so complicated.
http://www.thedailyegg.net Marvel Goose

The folks at BlueBoob knew that the video would sell better if you wrote your own Christmas song and sang it. You know, with guitar or Piano, or Goat stroking a Lyre as accompaniment. Certainly you could do better than the lyrics of this song.
Looking forward to your next doing a video showing how one obtains Blue Boobs.
http://www.danamazing.com dana

I don’t care WHAT the other people say, I think you are absolutely awesome for being able to put together a video with music and have BlueBoob knocking on your inbox. Of course, I impress easily….
http://sharlascroggs.blogspot.com Sharla

BlueBoob!!! Where’s their sense of humor?
http://texaswordtangle.blogspot.com Rhea

Not bad. You did a good job with the video and the music. Better than I would probably do!
http://www.selfdeprechaun.com selfdeprechaun

All the crazy lights. I’ve always wondered how much the electricity bill has come out to each month. Anyways, fight the power! I think you should come up with a counter/snarky clone site called Blueboob. I’d click on that!
http://psychocarnival.blogspot.com/ Kelly

The folks at You Tube are starting to get downright nasty with a lot of folks, recently. I just left a guy’s blog where he was describing some nonsense that You Tube was spewing forth, concerning their MUCH STRICTER guidelines.
I liked the Christmas video. Your camera work is steadier than mine. I took a “Christmas Lights” tour years ago around several neighborhoods, with vidcam in hand- and watching that would really make ya yak up the ol’ egg nog.
Merry Christmas!
http://crotchety-old-man-yells-at-cars.blogspot.com/ Joe

The video is very nice, but I watched with the sound off so that I’m not complicit in case the Blueboob Death Squads show up.
http://www.alopecianmuse.com Angela

Is your neighbor Clark Griswald? OMG! I felt like I was watching National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation. (I love that movie!)
http://mrsfligs.blogspot.com Jenners

That was great! I loved it and I didn’t see anything wrong with the camera work or editing (to my untrained eye). That sucks that they are making you take it down .. .but like after a year, should it really matter?
http://beetle-blog.com Babs (Beetle)

Hey! I didn’t give you permission to use my idea! You can expect a letter from my solicitor very soon! ;O)
http://www.mammatalk.blogspot.com Michele

Great clip. Thanks for the warning about the motion sickness.
http://nikkicrumpet.blogspot.com Nikkicrumpet

Well heck…I think whoever is singing that song should pay YOU for attaching it to your fabulous video of the beautiful lights…you made her song sound better than it is!!!!
http://popeterry666.blogspot.com Alex L.

To… much christmas… cheer… can’t… properly … structure… sentence
http://www.ihatemymessageboard.com Tracy

Maybe you could put it on GodTube! I love your video, it’s so holly and jolly.
Hey, that’s my baby’s butt being butting by a baby goat! He deserved it though, he was trying to shoot them with his webs.
http://www.muse-swings.blogspot.com Muse Swings

Blueboob – the Scrooges of Bloggerville! Bah Humbug.
http://www.colbymarshall.blogspot.com colbymarshall

Disney is quite strange about all that…when my theatre did Beauty and the Beast, I remember they even had rules about what color Tshirts we could use the Disney logo on. So weird.
http://ytfe.blogspot.com/ LarryG

I love the background music to the video.
and your awesome goat pics!
http://bernthis.typepad.com Jessica Bern

My first thought on reading this was “you’ve got to be kidding me?” my second thought, “you can’t make this stuff up.”
Unbelievable. Well, I enjoyed it.
http://theblueridgegal.blogspot.com/ Di

The video was really lovely…. so sorry BlueBoob is being a butthead.
http://www.dennisandleslie.blogspot.com Leslie

Great video, it only made me a LITTLE nauseated….what’s up with BlueBoob?? so uptight….
Have a wonderful holiday!!!
http://flowergirlstutus.blogspot.com/ Jennifer

There is something completely unlawful about that video, but I’m not sure it’s the music…gimme a minute, I’m sure it’ll come to me…hmm…oh yea! It was the lack of snow!! Don’t you west coast goats know that there is supposed to be piles of that cold, wet, white stuff on the ground??? Or are ya’ll like my brother in Florida who says that stuff is only for drinks? ;p
http://danomacnamarrah.blogspot.com Dano MacNamarrah

Well, goodness, gracious great balls of ire! Those wankers at BoobTube should be grateful that they still have a job.
The rest of the the big business bottom feeders are failing. Whoops, maybe BoobTube is too. No doubt because of relentless people like you. You, you, you, hmn… you PERSON you.
Also, PERSON, you should know that some of the inflatable objects motions made me feel nauseous. I will be contacting a lawyer that advertises on television about this matter.
As my TV is old an unable to handle that new stuff, I’ll be talking with a TV lawyer very soon. Before my TV runs out.
Unless you want to give me so much money that I’ll forget about the pain that I no longer remember why I have pain for to begin with. I think.
http://www.lifejustkeepsgettingweirder.blogspot.com Anna Lefler

“Blueboob!” *snort*
Man, you nailed it!
XO
Anna
http://aprongoddesses.blogspot.com Julia

Well what can be said except Merry Xmas and don’t go stealing anyones intellectual property because Santa, ops I mean DISNEY is watching you. Your punishment (or reward) is no admittance to Disney Land for one full year. How will they keep you away???
http://meandtheblueskies.blogspot.com Preston

What a great little video. It’s the perfect song for the images. Obviously those idiots who run that website are incredibly stupid. or scared. or both…
Here’s wishing you the Merriest of Christmases and a safe and prosperous war-free New Year.
Hugs!!!
http://anntracy.blogspot.com/ Ann

So I guess the wankers over at Blue Boob can’t bust me if I just use a link to something there, eh? Nat video and maybe you’ll get a tripod under the tree ;~D
http://crotchety-old-man-yells-at-cars.blogspot.com/ Joe

Sheep and camels always get all the credit for hanging out at the manger, but I’ll bet a few goats were there.
Have a very Merry Christmas
http://mommamiameaculpa.com meleah rebeccah

Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and “All That Jazz” to you and your family!
http://olgathetravelingbra.blogspot.com/ Olga, the Traveling Bra

MERRY CHRISTMAS! Hope you get lots of cute new panties!
http://heisking.blogspot.com Tammy

Oh for crying out loud. What is the deal with the video? The only thing may be the song, but that shouldn’t hurt anything. Good luck.
http://www.trogblog.wordpress.com O.G.

Great video – I especially love the nascar santa. Did you also do the soundtrack?
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