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From: "Tom Richards" <tcr@quartz.nbnet.nb.ca>
Date: Mon, 7 Jul 1997 14:02:54 +0000
Subject: Re: hey........
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Alan Chamberlin quoth: > Think back to one of those perennial Christmas carols: "Here we go > a-wassailing . . .". Wassailing is going out and singing Christmas carols > in public. In the U.S. we just don't use the word "wassailing." There's more to wassailing than singing Christmas carols. Wassail is a toast to good health (esp. to livestock and nature). It implies carousing and drunken revelry. It has come to be associated with Christmas (or more accurately Twelfth Night and/or Twelftide) and Christianity, but I'll bet it was originally a pagan custom. T.C.Richards mailto:tcr@nbnet.nb.ca Read 'The idea of demonic seduction in Keats and Zappa,' at http://www.music-planet.com/zappa/fztext/fzessay.html