[tin-man]

[quote=Mulv;1166463]Boxing day is a legal holiday in the UK and the former British Commonwealth that was initiated to allow a Christmas holiday to box boys. Box boys delivered Christmas packages on the 25th as in Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" when Scrooge sends the kid to get the giant goose from the butcher shop and deliver it to Cratchet( as played by Mikie). The next day they received boxes that contained presents or food to take to their famillies. In truth it is now a holiday wherein one carries a glass to each of their friends and neighbours houses so the can drink free booze.... The Irish were smart enough to name the day after me , "The Feast of St.Stephen"

Well Mulv, far be it for me to correct you since you are very knowledgeable on the subject, but what you are saying is only part truth. The term "boxing day" is derivative of an upper class landed gentry tradition being they, the filthy rich, a term bestowed upon them by the working class folks, since they, the filthy rich hardly ever bathed either stunk, stank or smelled, depending on where you were in the room they occupied, oops, I digress, . used to give each other presents and leave all the trimmings and wrappers and boxes lying around while they gorged themselves with all types of foodstuffs prepared by their servants and generally got blind drunk to the extent they would pass out, wherever they were sitting and come the following day the servants lot was to pick up after these filthy rich bastards so the house could be kept clean.

As a result of this, it was typical of the head of the manner or castle or palace or wherever these scumbags lived in that he would feel obliged to give out small gifts to the servants after they had cleaned up all the swill left behind by these unbelievable snot nosed effete autocratic foppish snobs. The level of gifts bestowed on the servants generally was either in the range of a farthing, penny, thrippence or a tanner for the head butler and the servants had to bow and scrape and show their extreme appreciation for the paltry gift that had been bestowed upon them. Whereas the gift these landed gentry pigs bestowed on each other ran into the hundreds or thousands of pounds, or the equivalent of many years salary for the servants. Such practice was the genesis of working class revolution, not unlike Tzarist Russia when the bolshevics turned the serfs away from their masters or beginning of the mass migration of millions of people from Europe to America, where there was no aritocracy to trample on their aspirations.

Freedom and the ability to attain whatever dream it is they aspire for is only really appreciated by those people who have been denied it by virtue of birth or by living under the yoke of tyranny.

tin-man