Christmas Date 2009 - Friday 25th December
For Christmas 2009, the 25th December will be on a Friday
Unlike Easter Sunday, Thanksgiving Thursday or Shrove Tuesday, Christmas Day can fall on any day of the week.
- Christmas Day 2007 was on a Tuesday
- Christmas Day 2008 was on a Thursday
- Christmas Day 2009 will be on a Friday
- Christmas Day 2010 will be on a Saturday
- Christmas Day 2011 will be on a Sunday
- Christmas Day 2012 will be on a Tuesday
(Due to the leap year)
The last time that Christmas Day fell on a Friday was 1998.
Naturally, Boxing Day follows Christmas Day; furthermore, New Year's Day is always the same day of the week as Christmas Day, only one week later.
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Which Day of the Week is Best for Christmas Day?
- Monday - Has a certain logic, start the week with Christmas!
- Tuesday - Start the week with Christmas Eve.
- Wednesday - OK.
- Thursday - Middling time of the week, Boxing Day on a Friday is good.
- Friday - End of the week, Boxing Day falls on a Saturday.
- Saturday - Not my favourite day, does not seem quite right.
- Sunday - Natural, religious feel to Christmas on a Sunday.
Christmas 2009 Stamps
2009 UK Christmas Stamps 
This year's designs show stained glass windows, a theme previously used in 1971 and 1992.
The Royal Mail have unveiled their Christmas stamps for Christmas 2009 and feature religious pictures depicted in stained glass windows. The Christmas stamps feature the work of Pre-Raphaelite artists William Morris, Sir Edward Burne-Jones and Henry Holiday. The stamps were designed by Andrew Ross after he researched hundreds of photographs of stained glass windows from around the country, before deciding upon the final set of images from the 19th century.
Overheard in a Post Office in Portchester, UK
Customer: I'd like a dozen Christmas stamps, please.
Employee: Would that be six or twelve, Madam?
2009 USA Christmas Stamps
The 2009 Christmas stamp features "Madonna and Sleeping Child", a painting by Italian artist Giovanni Battista Salvi (1609-1685), more commonly known as Sassoferrato.
The 2009 winter holiday season will be celebrated with stamps featuring a reindeer, snowman, gingerbread man and toy soldier. Stamp artist Joseph Cudd, of Greensboro, NC, created the stamps under the direction of Richard Sheaff.
Angel with Lute (see right). This 2009 stamp features a detail of a fragment of a circa-1480 fresco by Melozzo da Forli (1438-1494).
Hanukkah
The 2009 Hanukkah design features a photograph of a menorah with nine lit candles. The menorah was designed by Lisa Re gan of the Garden Deva Sculpture Company in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and photographed by Ira Wexler of Braddock Heights, MD.
The eight days and nights of Hanukkah, a joyous annual festival, begin on the 25th of Kislev in the Hebrew calendar, a date that falls in late November or December. Hanukkah begins on December 11 in 2009, and on December 1 in 2010.
Kwanzaa
With this colorful stamp, the Postal Service celebrates Kwanzaa, a non-religious holiday that takes place over seven days from December 26 to Jan. 1. Kwanzaa draws on African traditions and takes its name from the phrase for "first fruits" in Swahili, a widely spoken African language. Stamp artist Lloyd McNeill of New York City, created a festive, highly symbolic design to celebrate the holiday.
Service?
It was a cold and misty Christmas morning in the very depth of winter after a heavy fall of snow and only Farmer Evans and the Reverend Joseph Lancaster managed to arrive at the church for the morning service.
'Well,' said the Vicar laconically, 'I guess there's no point in having a service today.'
'Well that's not how I see it.' said Farmer Evans smartly. 'If only one cow turns up at feeding time, I still feed it.'
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Grinch Handcuffs Santa's Writing Hand
Zillions of children worldwide will be crestfallen this year because Santa does not reply to their Christmas present letters. In another case of officialdom getting above itself, of Jobsworths ruling the roost, the US Postal Service have abandoned the time honoured tradition of replying to children's letters to Santa. What happened in 2008 was a registered sex offender, infiltrated Operation Santa. Why not weed out the guilty, praise the innocent, and keep the letters coming to the children?
Background, the reply service began in 1954 in the Alaskan village of North Pole, where volunteers open and respond to stacks of mail addressed to Santa. All their reply letters come with the famous North Pole postmark.
North Pole mayor Doug Isaacson is outraged that the scheme is affected by a sex offender's actions on the east coast. The postal service began tightening its policies in 2006, and now prohibits its volunteers from accessing children's surnames and addresses. Instead, it blanks out the last name and address on each letter and replaces them with codes that match computerised addresses known only to the post office.
Christmas Riddles
- What do you get if Santa comes down your chimney when the fire
is a alight?
Crisp Kringle - Why does rain drop, but snow fall?
(Nobody can answer this conundrum) - What do you call people who are frightened of Santa?
Will's Answer: Claustraphopic. (Guy's answer: Non-existent) - Sterling silver charms to bring good fortune.
Notice on the back: Potential choking hazard: do not use with food.
Will and Guy's Humour for Christmas 2009
Christmas Humour - Clean jokes, funny pictures, amusing stories.
- Xmas Pictures
- Christmas Snow
- Christmas Trees!
- Santa Claus Pictures
- Rudolph's Red Nose
- Funny Christmas Jokes
- Jokes for Xmas
- Snowball Video
- Kids Christmas Jokes
- Short Stories for Christmas
- The True Religious Story of Christmas
- Angels for Christmas
- Carols at Christmas
Dear Santa
If you leave a new bike under the tree, I will give you the antidote to the poison I put in the milk.
Timmy.
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How to Say "Merry Christmas" in 75 Other Languages
| Language | Merry Christmas |
| Afrikaans | Gesëende Kersfees |
| Albanian | Gezur Krislinjden |
| Arabic | Idah Saidan Wa Sanah Jadidah |
| Argentine | Feliz Navidad |
| Armenian | Shenoraavor Nor Dari yev Pari Gaghand |
| Basque | Zorionak eta Urte Berri On! |
| Bengali | Shuvo Naba Barsha |
| Bohemian | Vesele Vanoce |
| Brazilian | Boas Festas e Feliz Ano Novo |
| Breton | Nedeleg laouen na bloavezh mat |
| Bulgarian | Tchestita Koleda; Tchestito Rojdestvo Hristovo |
| Catalan | Bon Nadal i un Bon Any Nou! |
| Chile | Feliz Navidad |
| Chinese | (Cantonese) Gun Tso Sun Tan'Gung Haw Sun |
| Chinese | (Mandarin) Kung His Hsin Nien bing Chu Shen Tan |
| Cornish | Nadelik looan na looan blethen noweth |
| Corsian | Pace e salute |
| Croatian | Sretan Bozic |
| Czech | Prejeme Vam Vesele Vanoce a stastny Novy Rok |
| Danish | Glædelig Jul |
| Dutch | Vrolijk Kerstfeest en een Gelukkig Nieuwjaar! |
| English | Merry Christmas |
| Eskimo | (inupik) Jutdlime pivdluarit ukiortame pivdluaritlo! |
| Esperanto | Gajan Kristnaskon |
| Estonian | Ruumsaid juulup|hi |
| Finnish | Hyvaa joulua |
| Flemish | Zalig Kerstfeest en Gelukkig nieuw jaar |
| French | Joyeux Noel |
| Frisian | Noflike Krystdagen en in protte Lok en Seine yn it Nije Jier! |
| Gaelic | Nollaig chridheil agus Bliadhna mhath ùr! |
| German | Froehliche Weihnachten |
| Greek | Kala Christouyenna! |
| Hawaiian | Mele Kalikimaka |
| Hebrew | Mo'adim Lesimkha. Chena tova |
| Hindi | Shub Naya Baras |
| Hawaiian | Mele Kalikimaka ame Hauoli Makahiki Hou! |
| Hungarian | Kellemes Karacsonyi unnepeket |
| Icelandic | Gledileg Jol |
| Indonesian | Selamat Hari Natal |
| Iraqi | Idah Saidan Wa Sanah Jadidah |
| Irish | Nollaig Shona Dhuit, or Nodlaig mhaith chugnat |
| Italian | Buone Feste Natalizie |
| Japanese | Shinnen omedeto. Kurisumasu Omedeto |
| Korean | Sung Tan Chuk Ha |
| Latin | Natale hilare et Annum Faustum! |
| Latvian | Prieci'gus Ziemsve'tkus un Laimi'gu Jauno Gadu! |
| Lithuanian | Linksmu Kaledu |
| Maltese | LL Milied Lt-tajjeb |
| Manx | Nollick ghennal as blein vie noa |
| Maori | Meri Kirihimete |
| Norwegian | God Jul, or Gledelig Jul |
| Papua New Guinea | Bikpela hamamas blong dispela Krismas na Nupela yia i go long yu |
| Peru | Feliz Navidad y un Venturoso Año Nuevo |
| Philippines | Maligayan Pasko! |
| Polish | Wesolych Swiat Bozego Narodzenia or Boze Narodzenie |
| Portuguese | Feliz Natal |
| Romanian | Sarbatori fericite & La multi ani |
| Russian | Pozdrevlyayu s prazdnikom Rozhdestva is Novim Godom |
| Samoan | La Maunia Le Kilisimasi Ma Le Tausaga Fou |
| Serbian | Hristos se rodi |
| Slovakian | Sretan Bozic or Vesele vianoce |
| Samoan | La Maunia Le Kilisimasi Ma Le Tausaga Fou |
| Scots Gaelic | Nollaig chridheil huibh |
| Serbian | Hristos se rodi. |
| Slovak | Vesele Vianoce. A stastlivy Novy Rok |
| Spanish | Feliz Navidad |
| Swedish | God Jul and (Och) Ett Gott Nytt Ã...r |
| Thai | Sawadee Pee Mai |
| Tongan | Mele Kalisimasi |
| Turkish | Noeliniz Ve Yeni Yiliniz Kutlu Olsun |
| Ukrainian | Srozhdestvom Kristovym |
| Urdu | Naya Saal Mubarak Ho |
| Vietnamese | Chung Mung Giang Sinh |
| Welsh | Nadolig Llawen |
| Yugoslavian | Cestitamo Bozic |
| Will and Guy | Funny Merry Christmas |
Following Christmas 2009, the next time Christmas Day will be on a Friday is in 2015.
See more about Christmas Day:
∗ Christmas humour ∗ Christmas 2007 ∗ Christmas 2008 ∗ Christmas 2009 ∗ Christmas 2010
∗ Christmas jokes ∗ Funny Christmas stories ∗ Christmas snowman ∗ Boxing Day
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