Boxing Day
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Boxing Day
With the Christmas holidays at hand, I was in the mood to offer a Christmas-related word. This refers to a holiday that is celebrated on December 26th in Great Britain. Members of the public give a Christmas ''box''(gift) as a sign of appreciation to a person(such as a postman) who has served them all year. In addition to Great Britain, I know the holiday is celebrated in Canada. I,m guessing it,s celebrated in the other Commonwealth countries as well.
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Re: Boxing Day
And here all along I though it was because they packed up their unwanted gifts in boxes and took them back to the store to exchange them!. . . Members of the public give a Christmas ''box''(gift) as a sign of appreciation to a person(such as a postman) who has served them all year. . . . .
Oh. Right. That's here!
Regards//Larry
"To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them."
-- Attributed to Richard Henry Lee
"To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them."
-- Attributed to Richard Henry Lee
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Ignore him, grogie. He doesn't [know] squat about Boxing Day.
Sounds like you guys are discussing candidates for regifting...
-gailr
Sounds like you guys are discussing candidates for regifting...
-gailr
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Yes, I'm a cheap buzzard, but I try not to be that cheap!Ignore him, grogie. He doesn't squat about Boxing Day.
Sounds like you guys are discussing candidates for regifting...
-gailr
Regards//Larry
"To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them."
-- Attributed to Richard Henry Lee
"To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them."
-- Attributed to Richard Henry Lee
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Wasn't regifting (even if the late Professor Tolkien, for obvious reasons, never used the word) one of the most important themes in the social life of the hobbits ?...
Henri
PS : Gailr, has the phrase «not to know squat» now been supplanted by «not to squat» ? Brevity may very well be the soul of wit, but still...
曾记否,到中流击水,浪遏飞舟?
I thought it was giving away your old stuff to your servants when you... say, get a new pair of gloves...Ignore him, grogie. He doesn't(know) squat about Boxing Day.
Sounds like you guys are discussing candidates for regifting...
-gailr
Kt
too 'old world' for me.
Ha ha ha, Henri! And thanks Katy, for adding the omitted word. I am quite amused when others post a faux pas; thus generating the karma of being hoist by my own petard...so to speak... Perhaps I had best leave americanisms to those who use them correctly, B_Dude.
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