Comments on: Merry Christmas, one and all http://www.flyingsquirrel.ca/index.php/2008/12/26/merry-christmas-one-and-all/ Darcy Casselman's weblog. Like the world needed another one. Fri, 03 Sep 2010 17:45:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Darcy Casselman http://www.flyingsquirrel.ca/index.php/2008/12/26/merry-christmas-one-and-all/comment-page-1/#comment-300 Darcy Casselman Mon, 29 Dec 2008 14:32:14 +0000 http://www.flyingsquirrel.ca/?p=294#comment-300 <p>Apparently nobody <em>really</em> knows why it's called that. Possibly something nice to do with the feast of St Stephen and giving gift boxes to the needy... But I think you're probably right that it has more to do with punching people in malls.</p> Apparently nobody really knows why it’s called that. Possibly something nice to do with the feast of St Stephen and giving gift boxes to the needy… But I think you’re probably right that it has more to do with punching people in malls.

]]> By: tinkerer http://www.flyingsquirrel.ca/index.php/2008/12/26/merry-christmas-one-and-all/comment-page-1/#comment-299 tinkerer Sat, 27 Dec 2008 07:00:34 +0000 http://www.flyingsquirrel.ca/?p=294#comment-299 <p>Boxing day. Hm. Called so because you spend that day boxing up all the gifts you aren't going to use, and store them until you either a)give them to charity or b)re-gift them?</p> <p>Or because that is the day you get into repeated bouts with all the other people at the stores returning gifts for credit or exchange or maybe just capitalizing on the post-holiday sales?</p> Boxing day. Hm. Called so because you spend that day boxing up all the gifts you aren’t going to use, and store them until you either a)give them to charity or b)re-gift them?

Or because that is the day you get into repeated bouts with all the other people at the stores returning gifts for credit or exchange or maybe just capitalizing on the post-holiday sales?

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