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Best left to the professionals. (Flickr user renfield)

Look, I won’t lie to you: I’ve been known to enjoy the karaoke. (In fact, editor Ben and I once nearly engaged in fisticuffs with a Durham local over our duet of “Total Eclipse Of The Heart,” but that’s a story for another day.) But karaoke has its time and its place: its time is “drunk” and its place is “while drinking.” And that’s for a good reason, because karaoke is horrible and can only be enjoyed while your senses are impaired and you don’t care that you’re humiliating your girlfriend by talking smack with some redneck over Bonnie Tyler.

That’s why we’re completely horrified at “Carolaoke,” which is not a real word, but is still the name of a fundraiser by the Triangle Residential Options for Substance Abusers. They seem to have decorated a flatbed truck with wreathes and whatnot, and equipped it with a karaoke system programmed exclusively with Christmas music. OH! We didn’t mention it was CHRISTMAS MUSIC! So what we have is sober people warbling Christmas music outside in the daytime, where there are children. Of course, the children are not being thought of.

No one would dare suggest that the Triangle Residential Options for Substance Abusers isn’t a fine organization that deserves to raise funds, but perhaps you should just mail them a check.

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