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Boxing Day
Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2005 4:02 pm
by Grogie
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.
Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2005 4:46 pm
by Brazilian dude
I'm baffled. Grogie actually speaks! I thought he was a computer-generated poster.
Brazilian dude
Re: Boxing Day
Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2005 10:06 pm
by Stargzer
. . . 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. . . . .
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!
Oh. Right. That's here!
Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2005 10:18 pm
by Brazilian dude
And I who thought they boxed because because they didn't like the presents they got.
Brazilian dude
Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2005 1:15 am
by gailr
Ignore him, grogie. He doesn't [know] squat about Boxing Day.
Sounds like you guys are discussing candidates for
regifting...
-gailr
Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2005 2:17 am
by Stargzer
Ignore him, grogie. He doesn't squat about Boxing Day.
Sounds like you guys are discussing candidates for
regifting...
-gailr
Yes, I'm a cheap buzzard, but I try not to be
that cheap!
Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2005 5:35 am
by Grogie
Gail, thanks for the word ''regifting''. I wasn,t familiar with it.
Posted: Mon Nov 28, 2005 8:59 pm
by gailr
You're welcome, grogie.
Be sure to pass it on...
Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2005 4:17 pm
by M. Henri Day
...
Sounds like you guys are discussing candidates for
regifting...
-gailr
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...
Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2005 4:28 pm
by KatyBr
Ignore him, grogie. He doesn't(know) squat about Boxing Day.
Sounds like you guys are discussing candidates for
regifting...
-gailr
I thought it was giving away your old stuff to your servants when you... say, get a new pair of gloves...
Kt
too 'old world' for me.
Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2005 10:33 pm
by gailr
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.
-gailr
Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2005 11:58 pm
by KatyBr
Perhaps I had best leave americanisms to those who use them correctly, B_Dude.
-gailr
right!
Kt
Boxing Day
Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2005 12:29 am
by Dr. Goodword
"Boxing Day" will be the Good Word December 26.
Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2005 1:06 pm
by M. Henri Day
A present for all - and on the «box» on one's own desk (or lap, as the case may be) !...
Henri