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Originally Posted by mikiec
What the heck is boxing day?????
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Boxing day is a legal holiday in the UK and the former British Commonwealth that was initiated to allow a Christmas holiday to box boys. Box boys delivered Christmas packages on the 25th as in Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" when Scrooge sends the kid to get the giant goose from the butcher shop and deliver it to Cratchet( as played by Mikie). The next day they received boxes that contained presents or food to take to their famillies. In truth it is now a holiday wherein one carries a glass to each of their friends and neighbours houses so the can drink free booze.... The Irish were smart enough to name the day after me , "The Feast of St.Stephen"
It is only the Scrooge-like nature of the American Colonials that prevented the holiday from taking hold here.
So there
