Terry in PA
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What is boxing day ? And how does it differ from our Christmas here in the US ? I get this vision of everyone in the family wearing boxing gloves all day and pelting each other everytime someone walks by them. Ha Ha ! 
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Terry in PA
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In the wassail song was John with the red nose the same John that we know ? I think it could be him. Think about it ! Out in sub zero temps detecting snow hills with his trusty green detector. Something is bound to turn red or for that matter turn black and fall off .
All in good fun John!! And thanks Dan for that info.
All in good fun John!! And thanks Dan for that info.
Canada
In Canada, Boxing Day is observed as a holiday, except (in some cases) for those in the retail business. Boxing Day and the days immediately following are when many retail stores sell their Christmas and retired model products by holding clearance sales. Some shoppers will line up for hours at night (sometimes before midnight and after midnight on December 26) for retailers to open their doors. Except in Quebec, retailers often open their stores earlier than usual, such as 6 or 7 am. Some retail companies internally refer to the sales week after Christmas as the "thirteenth month." (See Boxing Week.) It is similar to Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, in the United States. Boxing Day 2005 was the single largest economic transaction day ever in the history of Canadian commerce (according to Visa). Individual big box stores can even gross over CAD$1,000,000 on one single Boxing Day.
As an exception, most retail stores are not permitted to open on Boxing Day in New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, or Newfoundland and Labrador. In 2006, Nova Scotia eliminated a similar ban on Boxing Day openings, although most retailers elected to continue past practice and remain closed that day. In these provinces, most stores offer the same specials on December 27 that they would offer elsewhere on the 26th. This distinction is not well known in central and western Canada.[10]
In addition to the retail aspect of the holiday, Boxing Day also serves, in English-speaking parts of the country, as a second day for families to gather for dinner and to exchange gifts. Boxing Day dinner is, in many ways, just as much a part of many families traditions as Christmas dinner itself.[citation needed]
Boxing Day has also been referred to as the day that people "box" up their Christmas decorations and put them away until next year.
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In Canada, Boxing Day is observed as a holiday, except (in some cases) for those in the retail business. Boxing Day and the days immediately following are when many retail stores sell their Christmas and retired model products by holding clearance sales. Some shoppers will line up for hours at night (sometimes before midnight and after midnight on December 26) for retailers to open their doors. Except in Quebec, retailers often open their stores earlier than usual, such as 6 or 7 am. Some retail companies internally refer to the sales week after Christmas as the "thirteenth month." (See Boxing Week.) It is similar to Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, in the United States. Boxing Day 2005 was the single largest economic transaction day ever in the history of Canadian commerce (according to Visa). Individual big box stores can even gross over CAD$1,000,000 on one single Boxing Day.
As an exception, most retail stores are not permitted to open on Boxing Day in New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, or Newfoundland and Labrador. In 2006, Nova Scotia eliminated a similar ban on Boxing Day openings, although most retailers elected to continue past practice and remain closed that day. In these provinces, most stores offer the same specials on December 27 that they would offer elsewhere on the 26th. This distinction is not well known in central and western Canada.[10]
In addition to the retail aspect of the holiday, Boxing Day also serves, in English-speaking parts of the country, as a second day for families to gather for dinner and to exchange gifts. Boxing Day dinner is, in many ways, just as much a part of many families traditions as Christmas dinner itself.[citation needed]
Boxing Day has also been referred to as the day that people "box" up their Christmas decorations and put them away until next year.
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Uncle Willy
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Some day they're going to discover John out in the woods somewhere frozen to his detector with dead birds hanging all over him, then they will write songs and stories about him, spin tales about him around campfires, and he will drift into the mist of legend. Garrett will erect a bright green memorial to him and folks will come from far and wide to place coins and bird seed at the base of the memorial and light candles and burn incense in his memory and John will be elevated forever to the status of hero and legend and people will report seeing him on moonlit nights plodding through the snow swinging his green machine while flocks of birds swirl about him singing gleefully., " BIG JOHN - BIG JOHN."
Edgar Allan Poe.
Edgar Allan Poe.
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[quote Uncle Willy]Garrett will erect a bright green memorial to him and folks will come from far and wide to place coins and bird seed at the base of the memorial [/quote]When it happens, let me know where it is. Sounds like there will be some good coins around there to detect
