I've gotten an orange in my stocking every year since I was a kid. It's the one thing I can count on always getting. It's always the last thing in the toe of the stocking. My mom collects all of the oranges after and serves them as part of our Christmas breakfast.
This was also my wife’s and is now our tradition. Though our teenager is getting a bit sarcastic about it so is heading towards getting trolled in the future.
Oranges/Tangerines/Clementines in stockings are very traditional in Scotland - they go in the toe part of the stocking. Coal was always touted as the thing you'd get in your stocking if you were naughty.
Perfect Connections! Oh no! Who the heck is Hawkeye? I would have known the actress Geena Davis as a champion level archer. I got the celestial objects. I knew Tina Fey, Maya Rudolph, Molly Shannon and I guessed someone Strong. But then I was lost. RIP. Brilliamt Wednesday Mini! Sluggish 2:45 for me. Fun Stransds! There was one ambiguity: sock+stockings vs. socks+stocking. I figured that socks are things you wear on both of your feet (assuming you have two feet) while you can hang a single stocking on the mantle for holiday gifts. So it's a singular. Anyway, ultra perfect for me. And I'd rather have an orange in my stocking than a lump of coal. Burning coal is just bad for the environment. We replaced our heating/cooling system this year. It was not cheap. We got a heat pump: it's not burning fuel to generste heat; it's moving heat from outside to inside, like air cnditioning running in reverse,
Can't say I got an orange in my stocking, but one year at my Grandparent's house: they hid my brother and I's presents, filled his stocking with coal and mine with switches, and after watching our mournful faces for ten minutes, brought out the actual stockings and presents.
The old joke was that a child's stocking at Christmas in Scotland contained a sixpence ( coin worth half a shilling - 40 to the pound) a penknife and an orange. Parents then took away the knife in case the child cut themselves, took the sixpence for safe keeping and removed the orange in case it gave the child a sore stomach !
Oranges were popular in like the frontier days as a very special gift... Oranges were rare back then. It's a tradition that stuck. Coal is for naughty children. A threat to tell them they'll get coal instead of the toys they want when the kids was misbehaving.
Almost fell for the reindeer in Connections. 😂 But I saw the archers and the SNL people first and caught myself. The other two SNL cast members are Molly Shannon and Cecily Strong.
In the UK at least, an orange would've been a bit of a treat, since the climate doesn't support us growing them here. Now people are much more likely to put a Terry's chocolate orange in a stocking. (Orange flavoured milk chocolate shaped into segments, then glued together into the shape of an orange with some more chocolate.)
I've gotten an orange in my stocking every year since I was a kid. It's the one thing I can count on always getting. It's always the last thing in the toe of the stocking. My mom collects all of the oranges after and serves them as part of our Christmas breakfast.
This was also my wife’s and is now our tradition. Though our teenager is getting a bit sarcastic about it so is heading towards getting trolled in the future.
I always got an orange in the toe of my stocking and continued the tradition with my kids.
Oranges/Tangerines/Clementines in stockings are very traditional in Scotland - they go in the toe part of the stocking. Coal was always touted as the thing you'd get in your stocking if you were naughty.
A female lion is a lioness surely? Queen probably refers to eusocial creatures like bees, ants and termites
A queen is a female ( domestic) cat that is sexually mature and can breed.
Carousel moment on coal was hilarious. Good job on all the puzzles.
Perfect Connections!
Oh no! Who the heck is Hawkeye? I would have known the actress Geena Davis as a champion level archer.
I got the celestial objects. I knew Tina Fey, Maya Rudolph, Molly Shannon and I guessed someone Strong. But then I was lost. RIP.
Brilliamt Wednesday Mini!
Sluggish 2:45 for me.
Fun Stransds!
There was one ambiguity: sock+stockings vs. socks+stocking. I figured that socks are things you wear on both of your feet (assuming you have two feet) while you can hang a single stocking on the mantle for holiday gifts. So it's a singular.
Anyway, ultra perfect for me.
And I'd rather have an orange in my stocking than a lump of coal. Burning coal is just bad for the environment. We replaced our heating/cooling system this year. It was not cheap. We got a heat pump: it's not burning fuel to generste heat; it's moving heat from outside to inside, like air cnditioning running in reverse,
Can't say I got an orange in my stocking, but one year at my Grandparent's house: they hid my brother and I's presents, filled his stocking with coal and mine with switches, and after watching our mournful faces for ten minutes, brought out the actual stockings and presents.
"I've never gotten coal in a stocking before." Well, someone was always on the Nice List....
The old joke was that a child's stocking at Christmas in Scotland contained a sixpence ( coin worth half a shilling - 40 to the pound) a penknife and an orange.
Parents then took away the knife in case the child cut themselves, took the sixpence for safe keeping and removed the orange in case it gave the child a sore stomach !
Oranges were popular in like the frontier days as a very special gift... Oranges were rare back then. It's a tradition that stuck.
Coal is for naughty children. A threat to tell them they'll get coal instead of the toys they want when the kids was misbehaving.
Almost fell for the reindeer in Connections. 😂 But I saw the archers and the SNL people first and caught myself.
The other two SNL cast members are Molly Shannon and Cecily Strong.
The connections completely defeated me. I got trolled by the reindeer and then completely no idea after getting the celestial objects ☹️.
I've never heard of getting an orange as a gift, that one was weird.
Happy Hanukkah!
IRT Orange from Google: "They're Said to Represent a Gift of Gold from Saint Nicholas"
I did get the purple first. I did not fall for the reindeer connection.
In the UK at least, an orange would've been a bit of a treat, since the climate doesn't support us growing them here.
Now people are much more likely to put a Terry's chocolate orange in a stocking. (Orange flavoured milk chocolate shaped into segments, then glued together into the shape of an orange with some more chocolate.)
CLOA COLA LOAC ….. hmmmm …. ROGANA?? GENARA ??? EGGNOGGA?? 😂😂😂
I only know Vixen is a female fox or something. Only got yellow and green so I'll take what I get.