Merry Christmas, Louisiana

So we’re finally back in DC…
After forsaking our blogging duties for most of the tour, blogger's guilt is finally setting in...

The rest of the tour was pretty amazing. Ben's Louisiana fan club came out in droves to the shows... We fell in love with Louisiana a little bit. The people who came out were so friendly and awesome. I was talking to a man in Lafayette, and our conversation went something like the following:

Man: You guys sounded great, but you’re a tall fellow and the mic's down there...
Me: Well I guess I bend over a bit to sing into the microphone.
Man: Merry Christmas!
Me: I guess I got used to singing that way because I originally played bending down to look at my fingers, and now I just feel more comfortable playing that way.
Man: Merry Christmas! There you go. Yea you played bending over but it sounded okay. Everything else sounded good, except the girl's mic...
Me: Vanessa?
Man: yes, merry christmas, the instruments were up here and her voice was a down there...
Me: Yea I guess her vocals were a little low in the mix...
Man: Merry Christmas!

I looked up "merry christmas" in the urban dictionary of slang... but got:
Something you say to somebody to wish them a joyful and happy Christmas. Also slightly politically incorrect, because an ass-load of people in Iraq are dying and 1 billion of the Earth's 4 billion people live off less than a dollar per day.

But what does it mean when you say it in the middle of July? If only there was a "rural dictionary" of slang... or perhaps this man suffered from some sort of holiday tourettes?
Anyway, it was one of those times when you get a sneaking suspicion that Santa hides out in Louisiana in his down time, and is bad at concealing his identity.