Posted 2006-12-26 12:23 PM (#225093 - in reply to #225092) Subject: Re: Happy Boxing Day!
Joined: August 2003 Posts: 430
Location: Lebanon, TN
A perfectly reasonable, good excuse for Brits, Canadians and Aussies to cure their hangover with some hair of the dog. (He says grumpy that he is at his desk in Philadelphia doing conference calls all day to work on an RFP response)
Posted 2006-12-26 1:47 PM (#225099 - in reply to #225092) Subject: Re: Happy Boxing Day!
Joined: November 2005 Posts: 4827
Location: Campbell River, British Columbia
The origin of Boxing Day Has many different legends attached to it. The one in our household is that it was the day the the titled aristocracy would delivered food and clothing to the poor.
But the aristocrats always have trouble believing everything ISN'T about them.