Boxing Day – How And Why You Should Celebrate It
Posted: December 17, 2010 Filed under: Foolishness | Tags: Asti Spumante, Boxing Day, boxing day (Canada), celebrities, Christmas, christmas party, comedy, fiction, George Foreman, Grover Cleveland, holiday party, humor, New Year, observations, parody, party, politicians, Roman Emperor, United States 23 Comments »December 26 marks the most under celebrated holiday in the United States. We all know that Americans are not averse to celebrating holidays, so why is it that so few of us celebrate Boxing Day?
The answer lies in two related concepts – ignorance and corporate sponsorship.
Sponsored Ignorance
Circle it on your calendar. Your calendar, not this one (Image by hichako via Flickr)
I was a boy when I first saw Boxing Day noted on the calendar. I questioned my parents about my discovery but neither could give me any answers. This caused me much stress. I thought my parents knew everything.
Decades later, I have come to understand that my parents do know everything, except about Boxing Day. That exception is because of the conspiracy between the greeting card and sparking wine industries to protect their profits by making Boxing Day a non factor as a holiday. Read the rest of this entry »
The tragedy of the hors d’oeuvres
Posted: December 20, 2009 Filed under: Foolishness | Tags: blizzard, Christmas, christmas party, current events, devilled eggs, food, holiday party, hors d'oeuvres, humor, snow 9 Comments »This weekend, one of the big stories in the US is the blizzard that swept up the east coast.
The other kind.
Reporters have pretty thoroughly covered the usual topics – how many inches of snow, the roads that are closed and how many people lost electricity. The story of people marooned at closed airports has been done. There is one topic that has been missed – the tragedy of cancelled Christmas parties and the resulting glut of hors d’ oeuvres. Read the rest of this entry »
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