The One Hundred And Sixty-Five Days of Christmas

[hugovk]

Christmas feels like it's starting earlier and earlier every year.

To celebrate, here are the lesser-known verses of the misnamed Twelve Days of Christmas to get you in the spirit.

The songbook has 50,603 words.

Note every line whose day ends with a 5 is similar to everyone's favourite five gold rings.

If you were to start the song so as to finish on Christmas, you'd need to start on 13th July. Or, as the original song is traditionally begun on Christmas and ends on twelfth night (5th January), then one hundred and sixty fifth night is 7th June.

Source

https://github.com/hugovk/xdaysofxmas

Output

• HTML
• PDF

Usage

To generate 21 days of plain text:

python xdaysofxmas.py -d 21

To generate 50k+ words of HTML for NaNoGenMo 2015:

python xdaysofxmas.py -d 165 --html > output/xdaysofxmas.html

[tangier101]

The song-writer was clearly obsessed with ancient european tribes...

[hugovk]

This is now available as a Twitter bot!

https://twitter.com/MyTruLuvSent2Me

[hugovk]

This is now available as a ten-hour 48-minute audiobook!

https://hugovk.github.io/xdaysofxmas/output/xdaysofxmas.html