For whatever reason, the National Day Calendar says today is Humbug Day. And while that in itself is pretty much humbug, it did give me an opportunity to reprise my Scrooge and Marley design. Pity I can't turn it into a t-shirt because I am pretty sure the Bob Marley estate wouldn't feel irie about it. And I think I snagged the image of Scrooge off the Internet from a production of "The Christmas Carol" that was being done somewhere.
I asked ChatGPT where the term came from and it was a bit vague. Said it first appeared in the mid-18th century. It could have came from the early English word "Hambug," which meant trickery or fraud. And "hum" apparently used to mean hoax or fraud. And "bug" simply means to be annoying.
Sounds like a load of humbug to me.
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