12 Days Till Christmas

[Phantom]

Tree goes up day after Thanksgiving...comes down New Year's Day (in my house anyway). It drives me crazy when people start putting Christmas decorations up on the third day of November. Nothing says "Happy Birthday, Jesus" like 30,000 blinking lights and large inflatable "Nutcrackers".

The "12 Days of Christmas" are actually the 12 days *after* Christmas Day - December 26 to January 6. Traditionally, January 6 is the day the Magi reached the stable in Bethlehem.

That is sooooo coooool. I never knew that.

Boxing day is the day after Christmas. What is the significance of that? We don't have that here.

 

[anathema]

Boxing day is the day after Christmas. What is the significance of that? We don't have that here.

http://www.web-holidays.com/boxing/

 

[Phantom]

Cool. Good King Wenceslas looked out on the Feast of Stephen. Man, I'm learning alot today.

 

[Drtooth]

I have 2 exams and two paper revisions due tomorrow!!! One exam and one term paper on Tuesday! Why don't the professors have any Christmas spirit??

I have all that stuff NOW!!!!!!!!

 

[dmx10101]

Christmas is only a week away now.

 

[Don'tLiveonMoon]

And here's what those 12 days will cost this year:
http://www.pncbank.com/12days/

Yikes! That is one hefty chunk of change! Of course, it's also an incredibly impractical list of gifts...
Erin

 

[Don'tLiveonMoon]

Actually, wouldn't the total list actually be 12 partidges in pear trees, 22 turtledoves, 30 French hens... You get the idea. Because the way it's sung, it sounds like they get that stuff AGAIN the next day in addition to the new stuff.
Erin

 

[anathema]

Yikes! That is one hefty chunk of change! Of course, it's also an incredibly impractical list of gifts...
Erin

Indeed The list is also slightly incorrect: it's not "calling birds", it's "colly birds". Most people don't know what "colly" means, hence the common corruption of the word to "calling". Colly is an old English word meaning black - literally "as black as coal". Colly birds are blackbirds...

The "five gold rings" are also misunderstood. Again, the true love is sending birds - ring-necked birds in this case, such as pheasants.

Actually, wouldn't the total list actually be 12 partidges in pear trees, 22 turtledoves, 30 French hens... You get the idea. Because the way it's sung, it sounds like they get that stuff AGAIN the next day in addition to the new stuff.

Correct. That's what the "True cost of Christmas in song" figures represent. The "Total Christmas Price Index" figures just count the first item of each verse.


Are you ever on YahooIM these days? I'm not seeing you about much... ;-)

 

[anathema]

The Politically Correct Twelve Days Of Christmas: http://www.bandsman.co.uk/brass012/msg00195.htm


And here's the letters the singer sent to her true love...
http://c024246.net219124.cablenet.ne.jp/humour/JokePages/12daysloveletters.html

 

[Phantom]

"Two baby frogs" "Baby frogs? What kind of jive present is that?"