My pastor told this story on Sunday, but to be fair, he did not claim it to be true. He received it in an email and I thought I’d go and find out whether it is true or not.
WARNING: GLURGE AND CHEESINESS BELOW
Well, here is a copy of it I found on the internet:
Basically, a kid holds his letter upside down and the “m” in Christmas becomes a w and changes the meaning.
I am interested if it is true, but I’m equally interested in its origin. I can’t find anything on Snopes and my “google-fu” is not good enough to find its origin.
The author of the linked piece, Candy Chand, claims to be trhew author of the story, dating to 1999, and has even defended it as a copyrighted piece when it has been blogged and glurged arounf the internet:
