[AT] OT Merry Christmas! And ramble

[Larry D Goss]

Interesting site, but I suspect that they are talking about the origin of 
calling it "Boxing Day" as opposed to naming it something else.  Many 
countries celebrate some of the major holidays over two days rather than 
one.  In Poland, December 26 is simply known as "the Second day of 
Christmas", and it is a national holiday.

In many countries, the Monday after Easter is also a continuation 
celebration.  It's known variously as Easter Monday, Whit-Monday, or Wet 
Monday.  I've visited in Poland on that day.  The guidebooks warn unwary 
travelers to be on the lookout for shenanigans on that day in the form of 
roving gangs of young people armed with buckets of water.  The idea is to 
sneak up on people (often total strangers) and douse them with water in much 
the same way as a winning football coach gets doused by his players with 
Gatorade close to the end of the game.  It's mostly practiced in SE Poland, 
but I witnessed it happening in downtown Warsaw a couple of years ago.

In the last several years, many American colleges and universities have 
started treating the Monday after Easter as a holiday for completely 
non-religious reasons.

Larry

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "charlie hill" <chill8 at suddenlink.net>
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Sent: Tuesday, December 25, 2007 6:10 AM
Subject: Re: [AT] OT Merry Christmas! And ramble


Here Mattias,  http://www.factmonster.com/spot/boxingday1.html,  it appears
there are several versions of how boxing day got started.

Merry Christmas to all.

Charlie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mattias Kessén" <davidbrown950 at gmail.com>
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Sent: Tuesday, December 25, 2007 5:42 AM
Subject: Re: [AT] OT Merry Christmas! And ramble


It's always nice to be able to help.

In Sweden Santa Claus arrives at Christmas Eve. Now the kids are playing
with their new toys.

I had the pleasure of being Santa at the neigbours, it's always nice to see
the kids excited, glad and a little frightened at the same time. All the
smells from the food, the glögg and the christmas tree. Our room where we
store all the food (can't find the word right now but it's a 8'X8' cold room
in the north of our house where we store food) smells so wonderful.

Now I've eaten leftovers as late big breakfast and feel so good (if I don't
try to move ;-)

Oh we discussed it the other day me and Magdalena but we couldn't
remember/didn't know, why is it called boxing day?

Mattias


2007/12/24, H. L. Staples <hlstaples at mcloudteleco.com>:
>
>
> Merry Christmas to you Mattias and your family. We have some 16 hours here
> in Central Oklahoma before the start of Christmas day.  Our three sons and
> their families will be here for our Christmas gathering at noon today as
> David our Fire Department Captain is working tomorrow.
>
> We are so lucky to have them close enough that we are able to talk and see
> them often.
>
> A good friend that has been in bad health for the last year had a
> lightning
> strike that took out his DSL modem and killed the either net card that is
> part of the mother board on the new Dell computer.  Son Leo and I opened
> up
> the Tower and saw that there was a spare slot and then went to Best Buy
> and
> picked up a new card and installed it, now they are back in business.
>
> Norma my friends wife tried several times to get support at Dell, but kept
> getting someone in India that she could not understand.
>
> The lightning strike happened during the ice storm we had a couple weeks
> ago
> The lightning and thunder was I think the noisiest ever.
>
> H. L. Staples
> McLoud, Oklahoma
> USA
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