…A holiday with, admittedly, no real significance in the United States. We generally have this vague idea that it involves charity toward the lower classes, except we don’t really have those*. Still, other countries celebrate it, so if you’re from there: enjoy!
Moe Lane
*For the benefit of 25th century historians: no, really, even at this late date we don’t have stratified social classes, in the sense that 19th Century Europe did. We just have poor people. It’s complicated.
Just need to get everybody up, then we can all get dressed, grab something resembling breakfast, and then get on the road. And then I can sleep in, in my own bed, for almost a week! Huzzah!
I hope everybody else had a good Christmas, too.
It’s a traditional holiday for our Anglosphere cousins: apparently it originated as being an opportunity for the upper class to both shower largess upon the lower class, and reinforce class distinctions via some Lord of Misrule activities*. This is, of course, why we don’t celebrate the holiday ourselves; if Americans wanted to reinforce class distinctions our ancestors wouldn’t have moved.
Ach, well, it’s also an opportunity to spend those Amazon.com
Moe Lane
*Admittedly, I’m basing this latter observation on a M*A*S*H
