"Could you please take that image out of my head, dude?" the animal asks. "I don't want to wear a frock or a frog."
"Animal, keep calm", I say, "Or should I call you Consuela, cousin from Caracas?"
"Nobody remembers that dark spot in my past", the animal mumbles.
"So", I turn to Anthony, the Christmas Elf, "the man in black took Santa Claus with him? He kidnapped him?"
"Yes", Anthony's eyes are swimming and shimmering in tears. "He took him right from his dressing room where he was preparing for the greatest sleigh ride of the year. He even took Santa's red coat and hat. And two reindeers are missing, too. We couldn't find them anywhere, either. Joe Darque stole the spirit of Christmas, we think by using the same porthole-pathway system we are using right now. And Santa is usually using it on Christmas Eves when he is riding the skies with his sleigh being everywhere at every house at the same time bringing and giving all the gifts and presents."
"So Santa Claus or Father Christmas as some might call him is the spirit of Christmas?" the llama asks.
Anthony nods.
"And this man in black tight him up to bring him to a secret place, to do what?" Is the llama twirling a non-existing moustache here? "To ruin Christmas for nothing less than the whole humanity of planet Earth? When would that ever happen?"
Anthony shrugs his shoulders.
"It is happening in every second Christmas story. Some villain wants to kidnap Santa Claus and to steal Christmas. Think about Jack Skellington, The Grinch, Kermit, the frog…", the elf says.
"And I, Master Bromford", the llama says, "am not twirling my moustache like a villain would do, I am stroking it like every brilliant private detective would do!"
Thankfully, the elevator sound interrupts llama's foul role-play.
"Bromford"
I fell in love again
All things go, all things go
Drove to Bromford
All things know, all things know
We sold our clothes to the state
I don't mind, I don't mind
I made a lot of mistakes
In my mind, in my mind
I drove to New York
In a van with my friend
We slept in parking lots
I don't mind, I don't mind
I was in love with the place
In my mind, in my mind
I made a lot of mistakes
In my mind, in my mind
You came to take us,
All things go, all things go
To recreate us
All things grow, all things grow
We had our mind set
All things know, all things know
You had to find it
All things go, all things go
All things go
If I was crying,
In the van with my friend
It was for freedom
From myself and from the land
I made a lot of mistakes
I made a lot of mistakes
I made a lot of mistakes
I made a lot of mistakes
You came to take us,
All things go, all things go
To recreate us
All things grow, all things grow
We had our mind set
All things know, all things know
You had to find it
All things go, all things go
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285 songs about 149 different cities (and places).
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Chicago jumps 13 rangs to rang 19 ...
*** New York IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII (including Manhattan IIIII and Brooklyn III and Chelsea I and Harlem I) ***
Los Angeles IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII (including Hollywood IIIIIII)
Hamburg IIIIIIIIIIIIIII (including St. Pauli III and Wilhelmsburg I and Altona I and Jenfeld I and Bahrenfeld I and Ohlsdorf I and Niendorf I)
London IIIIIIIIII (including Chelsea II and Londinium I and Walthamstow I)
Berlin IIIIIIIII
Amsterdam IIIIIIII
Bethlehem IIIII
Memphis IIIII
San Francisco IIII
Jerusalem IIII
Babylon/Babel IIII (Pompeii is in this part of the list so...)
New Orleans III
Philadelphia III
Manchester III
Detroit III
Warsaw III
Paris III
Houston III
Chicago III
Budapest II
Rome II
Hong Kong II
Tijuana II
Acapulco II
MontrΓ©al II
Seattle II
Galway II
Washington II
Barcelona II
Belfast II
Shanghai II
Moscow II
Baltimore II
Malice I
San JosΓ© I
Scarborough I
Atlantic City I
Pompeii I
Waterloo I
Pyongyang I
Yarmouth I
Santa Maria Da Feira I
Berkeley I
West Palm Beach I
Cologne I
Monterey I
Starkville I
Odessa I
Tupelo I
Leningrad I
Miami I
Fribourg I
Montgomery I
Folsom I
Perth I
Sanibel I
Harrisburg I
Gloucester I
Calgary I
Blackfield I
Omaha I
Gainesville I
Santiago I
Saint Malo I
Chernobyl I
Grevenbroich I
Brownsville I
Mason City I
Benton I
San Jacinto I
Cairo I
Grafton I
Istanbul I
Nazareth I
Aurora I
Durango I
Donkey Town I
Key West I
Laredo I
Durban I
Bangkok I
Bowenville I
Woodstock I
Kalispell I
El Dorado I
Gaza I
Las Vegas I
Oxford I
OrlΓ©ans I
Kilronan I
Santa Fe I
Leicester I
Saskatoon I
Singapore I
Poughkeepsie I
Twin Falls I
Greenwich I
Ottawa I
Damascus I
Red Lake I
Sapokanikan I
Tokyo I
Guernica I
Port I
Sheffield I
Skara Brae I
Grantchester I
Bingen I
Columbia I
Venice I
Baghdad I
Marquette I
Salisbury I
Birnam I
Ramada I
Tulsa I
Jupiter I
Putnam I
Sterling I
Pittsfield I
Driftwood I
Soma I
Copenhagen I
New Danville I
New Paris I
Muskegon I
Metropolis I
Sapporo I
Jericho I
Vienna I
Johnsburg I
Nashville I
St. Charles I
Tipperary I
Sherwood I
Juno I
Aberdeen I
Margarita I
Highland I
Millbrook I
Southampton I
Not even really a (real) city or place:
Jersey III
California II
Gomorrah II
Albion I
Essex I
Idaho I
Atlantis I
Camelot I
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