Today Is St Stephen's Day But Nowadays It's Often Called...

[sandyRoe]

... Boxing Day.

How can we get back to the old ways?

[Canary42]

You can't ignore the Box in today    😀        😀        😀        😀     

https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Phrases-and-Sayings/Jokes/Question1858571.html  

 

[barry1010]

Boxing Day first entered the Oxford English Dictionary in 1743, the day when employees received their gifts from the employers.

How far back do you want to go?

[sandyRoe]

1742 would do.

[bhg481]

Nothing to stop you using it yourself and see if it catches on with your friends.

[ichkeria]

I thought it was still called that  in the RoI

[barry1010]

It certainly is, or Wren Day. 

Boxing Day is used throughout the Commonwealth countries.

But of course everyone knows that Good King Wenceslas last looked out on the Feast of Stephen

[bhg481]

barry - that's another one that people get wrong - there is no "Last" - Good King Wenceslas looked out.

[barry1010]

Yep, I have always shrunk his name to two syllables and put a last in to compensate

[fiveleaves]

I am not sure that it is that much of a problem

[bhg481]

barry - to be honest so did I for about 60 years.

[barry1010]

I'm not changing now 🥴

[bhg481]

I'm not allowed to sing nowadays - it frightens people.

[Buenchico]

I know plenty of people who mimic St Stephen on 26 December.  They get thoroughly stoned 😄

[THECORBYLOON]

For some, Boxing Day is the first weekday after Christmas, not the day after.

I mind on my mum telling me she argued with a taxi-driver when the 26th fell on a weekend and he wanted to charge above the rate for a bank holiday.

He said even though it wasn't the 26th, it was Boxing Day and pointed to a notice confirming the extra charge on Boxing Day.

The notice didn't stipulate a date so she wouldn't pay and the driver gave in.

[mushroom25]

Boxing Day. the most important holiday in the cat calendar.......

[barry1010]

Boxing Day is always the 26th.  If it falls on a weekend then Monday is the public holiday.  

Christmas Day works the same way

[Peter Pedant]

anglicans went off saints around 1540

pressies were more practical in the Goode Olde Days, and the useful present were put in boxes the day after

but everyone really knew that didnt they

[sandyRoe]

We did, yes.

[jourdain2]

'Apres nous - le deluge!'   Am I allowed to say that, because it's in French, but it is (or was) very widely understood as a reference.  We'll see if this is deleted.

[sandyRoe]

It'll rain when I leave?  I have only s few words of French.