Frazz by Jef Mallett for December 21, 2013

Actually, Trick – or – Treat and caroling have the common ancestor of “Wassailing”.

Well, if nothing else, you can always take along your own “eggnog”….

One time when I was teaching GED students, we went around the town singing Christmas carols…..It was fun….People looked at us like we were crazy at first, but then smiled…..

My girlfriend and I used dress up in “spirit of Christmas Past” costumes to play medieval and traditional Christmas carols on our recorders at our local Barnes and Noble 3-4 times during the season. We were nice and warm, and they treated us to lattes not eggnog, which was okay because I don’t like eggnog. Acoustics were great and the customers loved the way the music wafted through the store. But then B&N stopped letting us play—something about copyrights I think, although our playlist didn’t have anything later than 1850. Go figure.

@curmudgeon68 / @Jerry CarlsonThis is where “We Wish You A Merry Christmas” comes from…second verse “No bring us some figgy pudding…And we won’t go until we got some”

My Minnesota high school had The Carolers – 8 boys and 8 girls chosen from the choir, who dressed up in Dickensian costumes and sang carols downtown. I always envied them, but now I realize how cold they must have gotten…

Homemade old fashioned egg nog isn’t punishment unless you drink too much, lots of dark rum, not that nasty thick stuff you buy at the store.

If carolers got spiked eggnog with every house they visited, you would hear some pretty interesting singing by the end of the night.

yeah… and my friend’s grandma always called freezing weather “invigorating!”