>>6051900Aye! This. It's also the reason December 21st is /toy/'s Pre-X-mas and New Year's bash all rolled into one. Been that way since the Revolutionary war, when George Washington and his men, snowed in at a tiny fort in Valley Forge, celebrated X-mas four days early, on account of the fact they hadn't seen a calendar for two months and didn't know better. And while some say Washington knew better, most figure his men needed their spirits lifted anyhow.
'Course, back then /toy/ was a series of scribbles on tobacco paper, passed back and forth between bored and malnourished soldiers of the Continental Army.