Christmas Eve Gift

Dec 24, 2016 23:01

Well, the junk first of all: If you went to movies a lot in the '80s, like we did, this is a stupendously easy quiz. (A 50-question quiz that 11% of people get 100% right can't be too difficult, after all.) (I did have to guess on a couple, but they don't even make guessing terribly hard. I am kinda the queen of the educated guess ( Read more... )

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bunny42 December 25 2016, 19:05:35 UTC
Another blogger I read explains Christmas Eve Gift as a Texas tradition in which Texans try to be the first to holler Christmas Eve Gift to their close relatives. He calls it a "curious tradition," but had no further explanation for it.

Ho ho ho, and similar salutations of the season! I am tinkering with my new Keurig coffee system, trying to set up all the preferred settings, etc. Looking forward to that first cuppa joe. I bought some mocha Coffee Mate. This should be a treat.

I must be a pretty good guesser, because I scored 70% on movies, many of which I'd never seen.

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mellificent December 26 2016, 20:18:06 UTC
Huh, see, I don't know anybody else who says it. Maybe if I had hung around in the little town my mom grew up in more, I'd know more about it.

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mellificent December 27 2016, 06:26:13 UTC
My family never really emphasized the competition aspect, although my grandmother was the one who really embraced the thing, and she did always start it. (I'd say we were letting her win, except nobody but her knew it was a competition at all, far as I know!)

I did text my sister at a quarter to midnight on Christmas Eve just to say it though.

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bunny42 December 27 2016, 11:42:08 UTC
That same blogger posts "Rabbit rabbit rabbit" on the first day of every month. Family traditions are warm and comfortable. My mother was first generation French. Every year on Bastille Day my brother and I would call her and sing the first few lines of La Marseillaise, in French, of course. Now we call each other and the tradition lives on.

Happy New Year!

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