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[can_be_more]

Explain this holiday to me now, please. You know the one. The one with snow and trees and overweight men in bad suits with worse facial hair. I'm new! I don't know these things!

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[chasingangela]

The baby is Jesus. Um, the savior, in the main religion in this part of the world. Christmas is supposedly his birthday, even though the shepards must have been freezing their asses off to be out at night at this time of year. So in theory, the holiday is about him, even though it's really mostly about buying stuff anymore.

And as for the whole big Jesus story ... um, is anybody here religious? Because I am so not, so I'm not going to try to explain him.

[can_be_more]

We buy stuff for a religious baby's birthday and give it to each other?

[chasingangela]

Yes. That. Exactly.

*realizes this makes no sense*

...oh, just sing a carol. It's fun! Really!

[can_be_more]

I don't know any! *flails!*

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

"Deck the halls with boughs of holly..."

Damn, now I'm going to have that stuck in my head for the rest of the day.

And the presents are because the Three Wiseguys showed up at his birth and gave gold, frankincense, and myrrh. So, tradition.

[can_be_more]

Okay, I can understand the gold < /Vala >, but the other stuff?

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

Umm, I think they were spices. Used to wrap corpses.

Yeah, depressing gifts.

Maybe they were for the trade-in value?

[can_be_more]

They brought corpse accessories to a baby shower?!

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

It was a king thing. I don't get it either. Something about how they were the kind of thing everyone would need, and really, who wants stuff they need?

[can_be_more]

Still! You don't give a newborn death stuff. Even I know that!

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

I do wonder about those Wise Guys. Maybe it was a threat?

[chasingangela]

Repeat after me:

"Jingle bells, Batman smells, Robin laid an- whoops."

"Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way, oh what fun it is to ride, in a one-horse open sleigh...."

Don't bother trying to understand the words and how the relate to the fat guy or the baby.

[can_be_more]

Well, the tune is stuck in my head...

[ten-and-chips.livejournal.com]

Not for the baby. For each other. But other than that, yeah.

[notcalledlizzie.livejournal.com]

It's based on the fact that when Jesus was born, three wise men came to see him, bringing gifts of gold, frankensense and myhr.

Or at least that's what I've always understood.