Yuletide down under
My first paying job was working at a BP garage in Germany, valeting cars and generally fulfilling the role of dogsbody for 3 DM an hour. One of my co-workers was a rather gregarious Australian called Andy.

One day I was in the middle of cleaning up the carwash and the menial task broke my brain. My thought process went thusly:

'So Andy's Australian...

...Australians celebrate Christmas in the summer...

...I wonder what day they celebrate it on.'

I was halfway across the forecourt to ask him before I realised I was an idiot. Lucky too because he would've never let me hear the end of it.

For some reason my guess was going to be June 12th.
( Raindance Work is inversely proportional to post-count, Fri 22 Mar 2013, 22:51, 3 replies)

June 12th. Yeah, sounds reasonable.
I reckon you were thinking "half a year, that's six months, December is month 12 so half of that is month 6, so that's June. But now we're halving things then Christmas is on the 25th, so half that is going to be 12 (and a bit)"

But I'm not a psychologist so that might be a whole bunch of crap.
( Ghoti Fingers, Fri 22 Mar 2013, 23:00, closed)

I doubt there was that much logic tbh
just a lung-full of industrial cleaning product fumes.
( Raindance Work is inversely proportional to post-count, Fri 22 Mar 2013, 23:14, closed)

Actually..
"Christmas in July" is quite big over here!

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_in_July
(BeatsWork, Mon 25 Mar 2013, 9:00, closed)