Christmas

Nick on December 4th, 2008

It’s that time of year, when the world falls in love (so sang Frank Sinatra) and when the world also sends bogus urban legend emails about all things Christmas.  Is it true that the song “The Twelve Days Of Christmas” was actually an underground catechism sung by Catholics who were being persecuted by English Protestants? [...]

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The joyous crowds of rosy-cheeked, Andy-Williams-listening shoppers have given us our first trampling of the year, thus marking the official start of the “holiday season.”
But what about those slightly less perilous hazards you are likely to encounter this Christmastide, namely your atheist brother-in-law and his smart aleck son, who’s completed one whole semester of college [...]

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Nick on November 14th, 2008

Tossmas is kind of a new holiday, originating last year when one guy had just had enough of retailers advertising for some unnamed holiday generally falling around December 25. I wonder if it will catch on.
Care to join this man in sending the ultimate message to retailers?

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