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Here are my responses to Pensitivity’s Fibbing Friday.

1. Why was January chosen to be the first month of the year? All the other names for months were taken.
2. Why does the Chinese New Year not start until February? It takes longer for the New Year to get to that side of the world.
3. What’s the point of eating black-eyed peas on New Year’s Day? Hunger.
4. Why do we make New Year’s resolutions? So we have the pleasure of breaking them.
5. What will Santa Claus be doing now that Christmas is over? He’ll be eating black-eyed peas. 
6. According to tradition, in the Twelve Days of Christmas, the 1st day is Christmas, itself. So what is the 12th day known as? The last day of Christmas.
7. Why are so many of the gifts listed in the song, The 12 Days of Christmas, birds? There was a special on them at the pet store.
8. What earthly event marks when an angel gets its wings? Popeyes sells its BBQ Wings at a discount price. 
9. What happens on the Winter Solstice? The Winter Solstice.
10. How did the tradition of the Yule log originate? A really good salesman/con artist didn’t have a gift for the Xmas party host so just grabbed up a log as he passed through the woods and convinced them that this was a sacred tradition. Word spread.