Literal Christmas

[ysobel]

Dear Miss Manners: I have long been troubled by the carol “We Wish You a Merry Christmas,” specifically the intimation that if we don’t give the uninvited guests their figgy pudding, they “won’t go.”

How are we to address this request? I don’t want to be ungrateful for their wishes, but think that their insistence is a bit beyond what is considered polite and reasonable. Can you advise how to proceed?

What was that? Miss Manners couldn’t quite hear you over the ruckus made by the geese a-laying, the calling birds, the French hens and the turtledoves. The partridge, fortunately, appears to have passed out under the pear tree.

Comments

[jennaria]

:helpless giggles:

[conuly]

LW, why do you expect the mob to be polite and reasonable? Just give in to their extortion and hope for a better class of gangsters next year.

[kshandra]

LW, if you think that's problematic, let me introduce you to the Mari Lwyd...

[rachelkg]

Trick-or-treat is the same thing, and you mostly don't get real-life wassailers now.

Talk amongst yourselves, I'll give you a topic: Santacon as 21st-century wassailing. Discuss.

[med_cat]

Love it, thank you for the laugh ;)