The 12 days of Christmas, also known as Twelvetide, include a heated debate: Is the first day Christmas or Dec. 26? If you roll with the 26th you hit Jan. 6 on the final day; the traditional Christian feast day of Epiphany. This is the day that you must remove all Christmas decorations, unless you want to be cursed for the year. Back in 567 AD, someone decided to make this 12-day season official and it has stuck around ever since.
The famous song, “The 12 Days of Christmas” was published around 1780 but could be centuries older. Today, partridges in pear trees have been replaced by the government who isn’t handing those out in 2023. Instead, there’s a debate about alien life, new wars, and cyber attacks. Donald Trump has been indicted four times and the 5G network has been a hot topic of debate.
According to some, there are now 6,000 genders, and the United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres talks about the “global boiling” era. President Zelenskyy of Ukraine has made eight visits to Washington, and some nurses are criticized for dancing on social media during the COVID pandemic.
COVID variants continue to emerge, and there have been humorous suggestions to give some of these variants humorous names. Lizard people are back in the conspiracy theory headlines and there’s a debate about chemtrails, which according to some, can modify the weather and enact mind control.