This need never happen again if you are armed with the Official Christmas Trivia Guide.
Here are the trivia facts you need to make you the hit of
any party:
The Day They Outlawed Christmas
In England, the Puritan-controlled Parliament
outlawed Christmas on June 3, 1647. The laugh was on them. Everyone
knows Christmas is not celebrated in June. Seriously, they
were worried that such a secular holiday would detract from the sanctity
of Sundays. In 1660, Charles the Second said, “Are you kidding?”
and restored the holiday.
Old Saint Nick
Saint Nick is the patron saint
of bakers, sailors, travelers, pawnbrokers, prostitutes, and virgins. (Talk
about a group of people with so much in common.) The
Patron saint of Writers is St. Libra, also the patron saint of librarians.
The Twelve Days of Christmas
Many years ago, a Madison Avenue ad man tried
to give his girlfriend all 364 of the gifts mentioned in that famous
song. He ran into trouble because the maids a milking and the lords
a leaping ran off together and no one knew because of the racket
caused by the drummers drumming.
The Death of Santa Claus
Santa Claus is not dead, children. If there is even one little child who... (Sorry. Got carried away.) The alleged
prototype for Santa Claus, St. Nicholas of Patara,
is believed to have died on December 6 in A.D. 346, but no one is
certain. The Dutch name for St. Nicolas, Santa Klaas, later
became Santa Claus when he arrived at Ellis Island,
and they couldn’t read his writing.
Chestnuts Roasting on an open fire
In The Christmas Song, Nat King Cole sang the
line “Jack Frost nipping at your nose.” We checked with Jack Frost,
who lives in West Allis, Wisconsin, He says that line was
supposed to be “Jack Daniels nipping at your nose” but the song
writers were worried about losing the family audience.
Yo, Tannenbaum!
Last year, thirty-two million fresh cut Christmas trees were
sold. An estimated twenty-one million artificial trees are sold each year in
America. (They are grown by Hollywood agents, experts in the artificial.)
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