On Fri, 4 Oct 2002, William Robb wrote: > Boxing day is December 26th, and has to do with putting the > remains of the Christmas feast into boxes and giving it to the > poor, or some such.
I never knew that, I always thought that Boxing Day was an independence thing, which I _thought_ my Canadian stepmother told me. Well, I've been corrected. > Canada never bothered with a war of independance. We found it > much easier to stay dependant on the British Empire until > recently. > Now we are dependant on the goodwill of the American Empire. Please, the "Imperial States of America" will do nicely, Comrade. > God bless the USA. God bless those of us who live in it, leadership be damned. -- http://www.infotainment.org "The destructive character is cheerful." - Walter Benjamin
