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Initially Posted - 12/26/2001 :  09:36:57  Show Profile
From Plano, Texas:-- A happy Boxing Day to all you past and present denizens of the "Great White North". Have a good one, eh!

George Seaborn C25 #1190


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Response Posted - 12/26/2001 :  11:39:29  Show Profile
But do you know why it is called "Boxing Day"...???
Derek (ex-Brit, ex-Canuck)


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Response Posted - 12/26/2001 :  15:30:37  Show Profile
My guess is that you box up your surplus food from the holidays and give it to those less fortunate? In the U.S. it would probably have a different meaning: box up all the presents you received and take them back to the stores to trade in for what you rea

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But do you know why it is called "Boxing Day"...???
Derek (ex-Brit, ex-Canuck)


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Response Posted - 12/27/2001 :  00:12:55  Show Profile
John - you are 100% correct! Congratulations!
Derek
P.S. In the S.Caribbean, the day after a statutory holiday is also a holiday - it's called "jump-up day" (for obvious reasons...


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