BS: Xnas is postponed.

Subject: RE: BS: Xnas is postponed.
From: Bill D
Date: 24 Dec 09 - 12:46 PM

"...is another name for a guy's, well, you know..."

Yes... I first heard this when I was about 11...I remember thinking, "Wow, that's a dumb thing to call it." (Of course MOST euphemisms are dumb.)

Subject: RE: BS: Xnas is postponed.
From: Becca72
Date: 24 Dec 09 - 12:38 PM

hehehehe! Where I'm from "Peter" is another name for a guy's, well, you know....I really didn't need the visual of Spaw using a Peter fan. Erase Erase Erase.

Subject: RE: BS: Xnas is postponed.
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 24 Dec 09 - 12:37 PM

The name Boxing Day derives from the Anglo-Saxon tradition giving seasonal gifts to less wealthy people and social inferiors. Until their distribution, these gifts were stored in a "Christmas box", which was opened on December 26, when the contents were distributed In the United Kingdom, this was later extended to various workpeople such as labourers and servants.

I could do with a servant around for the next few days!

Subject: RE: BS: Xnas is postponed.
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 24 Dec 09 - 12:34 PM

This might be useful to follow your mint, Spaw. Or even your mint spy.

Subject: RE: BS: Xnas is postponed.
From: Bill D
Date: 24 Dec 09 - 12:19 PM

ohhh.. even bigger than a T-cup!

Subject: RE: BS: Xnas is postponed.
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 24 Dec 09 - 12:08 PM

That's in the same class as a zebra being defined as 26 times bigger than an 'A' bra, Bill ;)

Subject: RE: BS: Xnas is postponed.
From: Bill D
Date: 24 Dec 09 - 12:00 PM

That means Jan. 5 will be XXas..... I assume those who have XX proclivities will celebrate properly? ...I mean improperly...

Subject: RE: BS: Xnas is postponed.
From: Alice
Date: 24 Dec 09 - 11:40 AM

Well, that is a good thing we are postponing Xenophobia for a day.

(Sorry for your Xmas plans being ruined, SPB. I don't mean to make light of your suffering with the Xnas typo jokes).

Subject: RE: BS: Xnas is postponed.
From: Will Fly
Date: 24 Dec 09 - 11:27 AM

Xnas is the day after Xmas, and the day before Xoas. The day before Xmas is, of course, Xlas.

Subject: RE: BS: Xnas is postponed.
From: Bill D
Date: 24 Dec 09 - 11:23 AM

That's the day we celebrate Xenophobia .

Subject: RE: BS: Xnas is postponed.
From: Alice
Date: 24 Dec 09 - 10:50 AM

what is Xnas

Subject: RE: BS: Xnas is postponed.
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 24 Dec 09 - 10:43 AM

snork... i so needed a giggle.

Subject: RE: BS: Xnas is postponed.
From: Charley Noble
Date: 24 Dec 09 - 10:30 AM

Oh dear!

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: Xnas is postponed.
From: Becca72
Date: 24 Dec 09 - 08:21 AM

LOL!

Subject: RE: BS: Xnas is postponed.
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 24 Dec 09 - 07:32 AM

Silly old bugger's punch drunk, again.
Suck a mint Spaw.

Subject: RE: BS: Xnas is postponed.
From: catspaw49
Date: 24 Dec 09 - 06:39 AM

Boxing Day just knocks me out...........

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Xnas is postponed.
From: Boho
Date: 24 Dec 09 - 06:33 AM

In Australia, I understand, many people celebrate "Christmas in July"

Christmas

Subject: RE: BS: Xnas is postponed.
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 24 Dec 09 - 06:08 AM

We wish you a Messy Xnas !

Subject: RE: BS: Xnas is postponed.
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 24 Dec 09 - 05:48 AM

What do Australians and New Zealanders and Patagonians and so forth etc do to cheer themselves up in mid-winter with no Christmas?

Subject: RE: BS: Xnas is postponed.
From: Allan C.
Date: 24 Dec 09 - 05:42 AM

Amen to that, Paul. I'm sure this idea would get tremendous support from commercial entities if they thought they could better exploit Winter Solstice as well.

Subject: RE: BS: Xnas is postponed.
From: Paul Burke
Date: 24 Dec 09 - 03:55 AM

Let's all copy the Aussies and have Christmas in the middle of June. No travel problems, outdoor parties, `long evenings for shopping. Keep Yule as a winter celebration if we need cheering up in the cold, and return it to the original celebration of unity with neighbours.

Subject: BS: Xnas is postponed.
From: SPB-Cooperator
Date: 24 Dec 09 - 01:50 AM

In Czech Republic today (24th) is traditionally Christmas Day, and I should have been there now, but thanks to a certain low cost airline my flight on 22nd got cancelled and the earliest alternative was on 26th.
:(

So my change of my itinery

(1) Christmas Eve will be on Boxing Day
(2) Christmas Day will be on 27th December (Christmas Dinner with my partner and her mother) and also on 3rd of January (Christmas Dinner with my partner and her grown-up kids!)
That means that there will be two new years/new years eve.
(1) The traditional new year which will last for 2 days before reverting back to 2009 on the 3rd of January.
(2) As 3rd of January will be reverting back to December 2009, then New year will also be on 5th/6th January in time for our flight to UK on 8th January, at which point normal order will be restored.

This works out well for me as the 3rd-5th of January will be in 2009, so I won't have used 3 days of my leave entitlement for 2010. The upshot, however, is that 2010 will only have 362 days, the shortest year since the change to the new calendar. I am just glad that I will be on holiday when all this is happening and I don't have to pursuade my clients, and the UK Goverment (HMRC) to work around this!