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Re: Christmas facts
I take it the reason you always post links via archive.org is that you can't get on the actual sites from school?
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23-12-2009, 09:31
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Re: Christmas facts
More likely in this case because the real site no longer exists.....
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23-12-2009, 09:44
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Re: Christmas facts
Yep, 2003 website  but then again some people think that everythink they find on the web is new
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23-12-2009, 22:18
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Yep....
I found the thread on another site Kymmy but the link was invalid so i couldnt reply to the thread (didnt want to due to the invalid link),so i looked in the archive and really liked it  (I like being able to bring stuff back that is good )
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23-12-2009, 22:32
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Re: Christmas facts
I know it is technically illegal to eat mince pies. (Oliver Cromwells doing)
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24-12-2009, 10:10
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Re: Christmas facts
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I know it is technically illegal to eat mince pies. (Oliver Cromwells doing)
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Only in England - you won't get busted in Wales or Scotland..... 
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24-12-2009, 10:31
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Re: Christmas facts
But as the mince pies we have are nothing like the old fashioned minch pies that were actually spiced meat I don't think we have a problem
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24-12-2009, 10:52
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Re: Christmas facts
Christmas and Oliver Cromwell.
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Illegal Christmas
When Oliver Cromwell, a Puritan, rose to power in England in the 17th century, he passed a law in 1647 that severely punished anyone caught celebrating Christmas.
The Puritans believed that only the Sabbath (Sunday) should be celebrated as a holy day and considered Christmas a decadent celebration with pagan roots.
"If Christmas landed on the Sabbath that'd be OK," Bryant said. "But any other day of the week, Christmas was essentially just celebrating—frivolity and having too much of a good time, which in Puritan times wasn't any good."
In December of that year riots against the anti-Christmas law in London, Oxford, Ipswich, and Canterbury were put down with brutal, and sometimes deadly, force.
In 1652 a new law imposed even stiffer penalties and heavier fines on anyone who participated in a festivity before, during, or immediately after Christmas. The law also forbade stores from closing that day and banned church services unless Christmas fell on the Sabbath.
When England's monarchy was restored in 1660 one of the first acts was a declaration that Christmas could once again be made merry.
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24-12-2009, 10:57
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Re: Christmas facts
Now that's my sort of law...
OK everyone.. Christmas is cancelled.. The mods will be round to each xmas thread to close it 
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24-12-2009, 11:00
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Re: Christmas facts
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Now that's my sort of law...
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Then you could give that turkey you have lovingly prepared to your dogs.
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24-12-2009, 11:02
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Re: Christmas facts
I'm quite happy to fight them for it... Especially after they decided to sit on the bed and howl in time to my partners alarm clock this morning!!!!
Anyway if turkey wasn't associated with xmas it'd probably be a lot, lot cheaper!!!
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