I never knew about the 12 pubs before I moved over, but we did something very similar in Bristol. First year we went to 9 pubs, whose first letters spelt Christmas. Every year it escalated a bit, we did it in Irish, Welsh, Spanish... eventually we were doing 14 pubs spelling Merry Christmas with the drinks in each also spelling it. I don't miss Archers in the Avon Gorge 

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