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Boxing Day or St. Stephen's Day?

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  • #52
    Ponster
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 10,912 Mod ✭✭✭✭Ponster


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    philstar wrote: »
    excuse my ignorance....but who was st stephen anyway??...was he irish??

    Nope, there are only a handful of Irish saints I think.

    He was Jewish originally I believe...from somewhere in the middle-east.


  • #53
    KIVES
    Closed Accounts Posts: 192 ✭✭KIVES


    I wouldn't get into a brawl over it but it has taking me years to try and stop referring to it as 'Boxing Day' and make a big attempt to imprint 'St STEPHENS DAY' on my brain, so I'm happy with the status quo - I think the closer to the border you live, the more difficulty you have with deciding which one to go with - Can even have Republican/Nationalist connotations depending on which description you choose...


  • #54
    DICK FINGERS
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26 ✭DICK FINGERS


    St Stephens day or Boxing day?

    I would always call it St Stephens day
    But to be honest its just a regular day for me
    the cattle and sheep still have to be fed as usual:(


  • #55
    KIVES
    Closed Accounts Posts: 192 ✭✭KIVES


    DICK FINGERS wrote: »
    St Stephens day or Boxing day?

    I would always call it St Stephens day
    But to be honest its just a regular day for me
    the cattle and sheep still have to be fed as usual:(

    What do you do on the 15th August then...?


  • #56
    DICK FINGERS
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26 ✭DICK FINGERS


    KIVES wrote: »
    What do you do on the 15th August then...?


    That's strange you mentioned the 15th of August

    that is actually my birthday but i don't usually go out for it
    ill be 44 next august

    It's not much to celebrate another year older and still single:(


  • #57
    KIVES
    Closed Accounts Posts: 192 ✭✭KIVES


    I meant Farmers Day - as every other day of the year you seem to be bedridden,attending funerals of loved ones or bemoaning the fact that you're single, have a lot of cattle and your love life's going down the pan...I mean, i'd say they love to see you down in your local...a real cheery-upper...Boxing Day for me methinks at a push


  • #58
    timmywex
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,626 ✭✭✭timmywex


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    defo staphens day, but i clicked the wrong one in the poll by accident!


  • #59
    JIZZLORD
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,484 ✭✭✭JIZZLORD


    Boxing Day my good man!
    Defo St. Stephen's day for me


  • #60
    artanevilla
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 10,797 Mod ✭✭✭✭artanevilla


    Boxing Day my good man!
    Stephen's day GMV.


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  • #61
    Dudess
    Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    Why do people pronounce it as "St Stephens's Day"? They guy was called Stephen, not Stephens.
    It's the day of Stephen - if you're talking about the car of some guy called Stephen or the house of Stephen, you wouldn't say "Stephens's car" or "Stephens's house".


  • #62
    Jimoslimos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,930 ✭✭✭Jimoslimos


    Boxing Day my good man!
    St. Stephen's Day. Its what my parents called it and it seems to have stuck in my head.

    Not bothered about others referring to it as Boxing Day, might be a tad concerned when we start calling the 4th July - "Independence Day" though:rolleyes:


  • #63
    meglome
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,980 ✭✭✭meglome


    Boxing Day my good man!
    I kinda think we're missing the point here, you can call it Fred if you want but the fact remains the official holiday in this country is called St. Stephen's Day. What they call it in another country if they so happen to have a holiday on that day is irrelevant. We're all very familiar with the term Boxing Day as it's always mentioned on the British TV channels which most of us have but different holiday (apart from the drinking and eating :)), different country.


  • #64
    jimmycrackcorm
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    It's Boxing day in Donegal and that's the way it is but then we had BBC tv before RTE.


  • #65
    Mr Magnolia
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 10,437 Mod ✭✭✭✭Mr Magnolia


    Boxing Day my good man!
    St.Stephens Day. 'Boxing Day' is really only an English term is it not?


  • #66
    The Hill Billy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,799 ✭✭✭✭The Hill Billy


    Boxing Day my good man!
    vektarman wrote: »
    Not quite correct for Hilly Billy I'm afraid, he left the full stop out after St.
    An.idiosyncracy.I'm.afraid. I.don't.do.full.stops.in.the.middle.of.sentences. But.just.for.you.I'll.make.an.exception.
    I'm.a.Rebel.with.a.Pause


    Back on topic...

    St Stephen was the first "Martyr". More here: http://www.byzantines.net/StStephen/StStephen.htm


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  • #67
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 31,118 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Meh! Atari Jaguar.
    Mr Magnolia wrote: »
    St.Stephens Day. 'Boxing Day' is really only an English term is it not?

    Not really!
    Deleted User wrote: »
    Just for the (wiki) record, who calls it what elsewhere in the world.


  • #68
    Ponster
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 10,912 Mod ✭✭✭✭Ponster


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    meglome wrote: »
    I kinda think we're missing the point here, you can call it Fred if you want but the fact remains the official holiday in this country is called St. Stephen's Day. What they call it in another country if they so happen to have a holiday on that day is irrelevant. We're all very familiar with the term Boxing Day as it's always mentioned on the British TV channels which most of us have but different holiday (apart from the drinking and eating :)), different country.

    meglome, logic doesn't belong in AH...Please take your common sense elsewhere please :)


  • #69
    Caco
    Registered Users Posts: 875 ✭✭✭Caco


    You're all wrong... it's "the day the pubs reopen"!


  • #70
    Lands Leaving
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,145 ✭✭✭Lands Leaving


    I call it st. stephens day.

    Till I go visit relatives. ;)


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