Santa baby...slip a what under the tree?

[Boomy]

I only just bothered (after all these years) to find out what a "sable" was.Not sure if that is a little worrying or

whether most people also didn't know.

So, when the song suggests; "Santa Baby, slip a sable under the tree, for me..." they are promoting the fur trade!

Seems they were quite a popular thing to wear back in the day, a film star special!

You can still buy fur coats etc made from them today.

Moving on, a few years ago i also looked up some of the reasons Boxing Day was called Boxing day.

It was something else i had never given much thought to.

[tankerman24]

So why is boxing day called Boxing day, do tell

[Sam-Kit car dreams]

So why is boxing day called Boxing day, do tell

I think it is something to do with passing boxes around the church to collect money in for the poor and needy.

[spence]

So why is boxing day called Boxing day, do tell

After falling out on christmas day. Families would arrange a boxing match to sort out all their problems.

This would happen the day after christmas as they were too p*ssed to fight and kept falling over as soon as a punch was landed.

Hence 'Boxing day' was created for the masses.

[TrevP]

It goes back to when wealthy families had servents.The day after christmas the families would give the servents small treats in, you guessed it boxes, Hence the name boxing day.

and with that here ends the lesson.        

[tankerman24]

After falling out on christmas day. Families would arrange a boxing match to sort out all their problems.

This would happen the day after christmas as they were too p*ssed to fight and kept falling over as soon as a punch was landed.

Hence 'Boxing day' was created for the masses.

thats my favorite suggestion so far

[neilwillis]

Not the day when you struggle to get all the gifts back into their boxes so you can queue up in Argos for 4 hours to exchange them then?

[pistonbroke]

In days of yore chrissy day was for sobering up from't neet before

Whats more  th'ale was proper stuff then not like the watered down ferret p*** we call now call "stella"

Proper folk were still far to hung over to do any  co-ordinated activity such as "openeing boxes"  

So they opened all the pressies  ont next day instead

henceforth  Boxing Day  

(this is a true story told to me by one of santa's  elfs )