# It was Christmas Eve day

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-christmas-eve-day/607288>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [December 24, 2011, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-christmas-eve-day/607288 "2011-12-24T15:52:25Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\
**Post date:** [December 24, 2011, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-christmas-eve-day/607288/1 "2011-12-24T15:52:25Z")

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In the drunk tank

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**Author:** ![Chessic\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7c8e57/32.png) [@Chessic\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chessic_Sense)\
**Post date:** [December 24, 2011, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-christmas-eve-day/607288/2 "2011-12-24T15:54:22Z")

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Already? It’s not even noon!

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**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\
**Post date:** [December 24, 2011, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-christmas-eve-day/607288/3 "2011-12-24T16:42:22Z")

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Why ‘day’ and not ‘babe’?

(Perhaps I’m not awake enough to catch the game.)

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**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\
**Post date:** [December 24, 2011, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-christmas-eve-day/607288/4 "2011-12-24T17:05:25Z")

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Always heard it as “day.” Maybe I should go back to bed. Move along, nothing to see here. Cleanup on Aisle 5!

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**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\
**Post date:** [December 24, 2011, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-christmas-eve-day/607288/5 "2011-12-24T17:53:21Z")

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I was wondering how the cops let you keep your laptop / smartphone so you could post from your inglorious new found home-away-from-home.

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**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\
**Post date:** [December 24, 2011, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-christmas-eve-day/607288/6 "2011-12-24T17:59:42Z")

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\*Away with your pills, it’ll cure all ills

Be ye pagan, Christian, or Jew

So take off your coat and grease your throat

With a bucket of the mountain dew.\*