| For Catholics, 15-20 December are days of Feria. These are days when people, especially slaves, are not obliged to work, there are no ecclesiastical court sessions and no saint's day is required to be celebrated.
The 1895 schism between the laws of rugby union and rugby league football is temporarily lifted, kids play tiddley-winks with the bones of Saint Boniface of Dokkum, every movie theater in America shows a triple-bill of "Tomb Raider," "Prince of Persia," and "Resident Evil: Afterlife" at three in the afternoon, surgery for corns is traditionally discounted by 20% on days of Feria.
On days of Feria it is legal to jailbreak your neighbor's iPhone yet it is forbidden to consume Spinnenkäse, a cheese made from quark and produced using the action of cheese mites. On days of Feria South Padre Island is closed to men so that women can sunbath freely but tanning beds throughout 17 states are legally required to serve only men over the age of 60. On the first day of the Winter Feria, registration for the Santa Elena International Pageant of the Flowers opens while nominations for the Dutton Animal Book Award close.
On days of Feria your lucky numbers will be: 15, 16, 28, 33, 38, 23. Amicalola Falls State Park will be closed. Production of natural sweetgums will commence. Stark white, decadent red, deep orange, and sage green are the colors of Feria. |
