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Happy (belated!) Birthday, Milo! [big-kiss e]
and...re: "the second day of Christmas" - Boxing Day, or December 26, is actually the FIRST day of Christmas (it's weird, I know) - January 6 is therefore the 12th Day, aka Epiphany (see "the 12 Days of Christmas" for a list of presents to send Milo). Traditionally Epiphany is the day all the ornaments are supposed to come down, and any that get left up by mistake are supposed to be left up for a year. Hm. Maybe that explains why people still have their Christmas lights up in March....
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...and...re: "the second day of Christmas" - Boxing Day, or December 26, is actually the FIRST day of Christmas (it's weird, I know)Unless you are a musician, then it actually® is the second day of Christmas... just ask JazzO.  http://wordsmith.org/board/showflat.pl?Cat=&Board=metawords&Number=47091
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Does anybody else call the 26th Boxing Day?
It's always been known here as St. Stephen's day. We've never accepted the status quo of 800 years of Imperialistic rule....
ahem.
I believe Boxing Day is so called because those in service were required to work on Christmas day and received a patronising 'box' on the 26th.
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a patronising 'box'on the ears?! Rubrick, your antagonism is showing!  I did a bit o' research on Boxing Day, for a Boxing Day supplement to the local paper, and one source suggested that the name came from it being the day on which the alms-boxes in the churches were opened and the contents, which had been collected all year long, shared out among the poor. Another source suggested what Rubrick sez: that patrons gave the poor boxes on this day; only I think they were landowners, lords and the like, giving boxes of clothing and food to their serfs and servants. Same idea for the carol Good King Wenceslas, who looked out on the Feast of Stephen and then decided to take some goodies to a feller he saw struggling through the snow....
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