These are textfiles that are attached to certain holidays. It's kind of annoying to see files about subjects that don't represent year-round types of subjects, so they're all lumped in here. The majority of the files here are currently Christmas files.
An exception is the Occult section, which is loaded with Halloween stuff but it doesn't seem as clear to split the specific holiday stuff from and put here.
Interestingly enough, the most popular files are parodies of the time-honored poem "A visit from Saint Nicholas". Something about that particular poem (the idea that Santa's breaking into the house, the glimpse you get of him before he cuts out of town) inspires generations of geeks and self-styled humorists to make new, alternate versions.
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12-Days-to-Xmas 2593 | The Twelve Days of UNIX
| 12-bugs | 3564 | The Twelve Bugs of Christmas
| 12days.txt | 6189 | The Twelve Letters of Christmas
| aletterf.txt | 2682 | The Day After the Twelve Days of Christmas
| anti_val.day | 2247 | Anti-Valentine's Day Party Results
| brownose.xms | 780 | The Story of Rudolph the Brown Nose Reindeer
| christma.wor | 3544 | The Worm Before Christmas, by Clement C. Morris (December 12, 1988)
| fday | 1146 | Happy Father's Day Graphic
| fdc | 2274 | Art: Happy Father's Day
| fs270.txt | 11264 | FS270: Rutgers Cooperative Extension: Estimated Costs and Returns for Growing One Acre of Douglas Fir Christmas Trees by Mark C. Vodak
| hanuk9.ans | 573 | ANSI File Wishing You Happy Hanukkah
| hatedeer.txt | 2340 | Rudolph the Red-Nosed Hatedeer (Parody)
| holiday.txt | 3441 | The Modern American Guide to National Holidays
| killsant.txt | 4543 | How to Kill Santa Claus Dead! By the Outland, of Neon Knights, Metal Communications
| mc.xmas | 905 | The MIT Night Before Christmas
| meridian.jok | 2275 | Santa Claus is Weilding a Gun (To the Tune of "Santa Claus is Coming to Town")
| merry.jok | 50398 | A Collection of Merry Christmas Programs in Many Languages
| nicholas.txt | 5853 | A Visit from St. Nicolas, for Students in the 23rd Year of Schooling
| night.hum | 5101 | Twas the Nocturnal Segment of the Diurnal Period
| nightb4.txt | 3093 | Twas the Night Before Installation
| nightbef.txt | 11648 | Large Collection of Night Before Christmas Parodies
| nightplato.txt | 1520 | Twas The Week Before Finals, by Mike Carroll ("Hob"), Mike Folk ("Starry"), and Tom Stieglitz ("Condor")
| niteb4.xmas | 2798 | Twas the Hippies Before Christmas
| nitexmas.txt | 5145 | Jargon-Filled Night Before Christmas
| noriega.txt | 4152 | 'Twas the Night Before Christmas '89 in Panama
| omnixmas.hum | 2475 | Twas the Cyber Night Before Christmas
| pagancar.sng | 2976 | A List of Pagan Christmas Carols
| pc-xmas.txt | 2997 | A Politicall Correct Christmas
| pc_carol.txt | 1435 | The Politically Correct "Carole"
| pcxmas.txt | 2965 | Merry P.C. Christmas!
| sansanta.txt | 6373 | The SANctuary Night Before Christmas by Havok Halcyon
| santa.ans | 1255 | Merry Christmas ANSI
| santa.gun | 1053 | Santa Claus is Wielding a Gun (Parody)
| santa.moves | 3564 | The Imperceptibility of Santa Claus, 1984
| santa1.fun | 7803 | Ho ho ho! The Origin of Santa!
| santa10.fun | 3656 | Twelve Magic / Tragic Words
| santa11.fun | 3406 | Games Elves Play
| santa12.fun | 12084 | Short Dissertation on Ice Nymphs
| santa13.fun | 3105 | Interview with Santa Claus
| santa15.fun | 2647 | Why Santa gives lumps of coal!
| santa2.fun | 1891 | Santa's Best Kept Secret
| santa4.fun | 2057 | Santa's Fave Jokes
| santa5.fun | 3517 | Why Santa says HO HO HO
| santa6.fun | 3913 | Santa's Clothes?
| santa7.fun | 8161 | The Magical Pomegranate
| santa8.fun | 6599 | How the Elves first met Santa
| santa9.fun | 4930 | A true story by Zeeker the elf!
| santa_m.ail | 1100 | Very Unhappy Poem to Santa
| santa_mail | 1063 | Chipmunks Roasting on an Open Fire
| santa_mo.ves | 3630 | The Imperceptibility of Santa Claus
| st.woz | 3406 | A Visit from Saint Woz
| stngxmas.txt | 2908 | The Night Before Christmas (Star Trek TNG Version)
| stsxmast | 14492 | A Christmas Tale, by Franchot Lewis (1993)
| the_worm.txt | 3829 | "The Worm Before Christmas" by Clement C. Morris
| tree.asc | 1031 | INEZ Wishes you Happy Holidays
| unixxmas.jok | 2709 | An Electronic Chistmas/Chanukah Card to All, by Evan Leibovitch, code by Beverly Erlebacher
| xmas | 3150 | 128 Column ASCII Art of Christmas Tree
| xmas.stu | 34576 | The Twelve Thank You Notes of Christmas (November 18, 1990)
| xmas.twelve | 2511 | The Twelve Computerized Days of Christmas
| xmas.txt | 7824 | Shedding true light on Christmas Day, by The Cruiser.
| xmas.vt | 15955 | VT100 Terminal Coded Christmas Card
| xmas.worm | 2784 | The Worm Before Christmas
| xmas1.txt | 1896 | Christmas Poem: I Can Help the Next Person at This Register, Please
| xmas12.jok | 6947 | The 12 Days After Christmas
| xmas2.txt | 2593 | Christmas Poem: A Sacred Meditation by David Fox, 1990
| xmas_poem.txt | 2866 | The Night Before Christmas: The Liability Version
| xmas_twe.lve | 2616 | The Twelve Computerized Days of Christmas
| xmascard.rvw | 3036 | REVIEW: XMASCARDS - Disk 1 and 2 - Send ANSI Xmas Cards
| xmasdec.txt | 1482 | Tree Decoration Recommendations
| xmasfire.asc | 1459 | ASCII ART: Christmas Tree and Fireplace
| xmasraid.txt | 8401 | An Christmas Raid on the Slaveshop of the North Pole, by Shawn Harold and Linda Thompson (December 23, 1994)
| xmastory.txt | 11710 | Collection of a Half-Dozen Night Before Christmas Parodies
| xmasworm.jok | 3200 | The Worm Before Christmas, by Clement C. Morris
| yupixmas.txt | 4449 | The Night Before Christmas, The Yuppie Version
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There are 74 files for a total of 380,553 bytes. |