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Old 12-26-2015, 10:55 PM   #34
GA Russell
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Of course. When else would it begin?



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelfth_Night_(holiday))

I would have thought that 1448 years would be a sufficient length of time to get the message across .
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Harry, I strongly suspect that if you asked most Americans, they would guess that Dec. 25 is the last of the twelve days of Christmas. Stores and radio stations behave as if the Christmas season is over Dec. 26.
Apropos, there is a single-panel comic "strip" in our local paper each day called Argyle Sweater. The Christmas Day comic has a woman returning her Christmas presents to the store (the birds a-laying) "On the 13th Day of Christmas." !!!

http://www.theargylesweater.com/
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