Did you think from the title of this posting that it was going to be about sex and Christmas? Doing something really naughty under the mistletoe? Well, you're wrong. Get your filthy minds out of the gutter. This posting is going to be about Christmas jokes, like this one:
What did Adam say on the day before Christmas? It's Christmas, Eve!
Ok, it's not going to be all about Christmas jokes, also known as "cracker jokes". Crackers are an English tradition. They're small cardboard tubes wrapped in colorful paper and when the crackers are pulled, a small gift or party hat or holiday joke falls out. Thus, "cracker jokes".
How do I know this bit of Christmas lore? Whychristmas.com, that's how. This website has all sorts of Christmas related information, history and trivia. It tells us why we celebrate Christmas on the 25th, why we kiss under the mistletoe and why the alleged word Xmas exists.
I always hated seeing that word. It just didn't look right. It always appeared that someone was just too lazy to write out the whole word "Christmas," and so randomly chose the letter x to substitute for the Christ part and voila, Xmas.
Shows you what I know. In Greek, the letter that looks like an "x" is pronounced Christos, which means Christ. Which isn't so bad after all. And I learned that at whychristmas.com.
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