When Christmas really lasts 8 days because the presents take longer to deliver from Amazon.com than anticipated by the purchaser. This is often caused by the reckless use of Super Saver Shipping on items which were bought on Christmas Eve. As a result, the presents are received in small amounts each day over an 8 day period, similar to Hanukkah.
> Kid 1: Did you get everything you wanted for Christmas?
> Kid 2: I dunno, we're celebrating Amazonukkah this year. My parents are real procrastinators. FML

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学英语单词
accelerating grade
aeronautical communication station
allergy action code
allogonite
Ampliactil
aquae fontana
aquae gratianae (aix-les-bains)
borrowing costs
buffing paste
burst into the world
Calamus melanochrous
calder
cathodolyte
cedrin
centrelines
certificate of qualification
chill reducing inoculant
circumorbitals
classier
combinatorial arrangement
community development plan
complementarity of need
compound acetanilid powder
continuous wave nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometer
cushion matreial
dandelionlike
database handle
De-ionization Time
demethylations
discontinuous approximation
drainage tester
dysophylla
equivalent price
event probability
excessive lingual inclination
F-270
farepayers
farm household disease
flavorlessnesses
fumaruric acid
Gentiana pedata
geoponder
guttur
harmonic signal
hashes out
herring-buss
HTACS
Impatiens stenantha
indirect closed cycle
induction type wattmeter
inshipped
intercommunication panel
knar
last night
Litsea lancilimba
magnesite dolomite brick
Megaera
metal lot
minor planet
misery lit
Nabil'skiy Khrebet
nonopening
orgasmically
orthogonal latin cube
Ota's nevus
pan-americans
paramagnetic electron trap
pasteure crop
personal management analysis
pillaf
plate work
POL system
polyhydroxyphenol
priolepis boreus
Rolandian
round hole
runway observation
scubas
selective purchase
self-refutations
solay
southerners
spermatorrheas
standard scale
stationary solid bed
strengtheningly
sun glasses
supmmeatai triangle
Supramammillary
swab stick
sweatin
table lamps
Terråk
traffic on railroad flatcar
transduction(zinder & lederberg 1952)
truncated normal mean
tumourigenesis
under water reactor
unsportingness
vesuvius
water-tight work
yield class indication