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Freddy Woo writes, "as a child we used to have a 'whoever cuts doesn't choose the slice' rule with cake. It worked brilliantly, but it's left me completely anal about dividing up food - my wife just takes the piss as I ritually compare all the slice sizes."

What codes and rituals does your family have?

(, Thu 20 Nov 2008, 18:05)
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Rune Family motto...
Our family code is very simple...

"Wherever you may be let your wind blow free.
Be it church or chapel, Let it rattle."
(Daddy Rune, Aunty Rune (aka wicked witch of south west) and Uncle "Baldy" Rune)

This evening ritual is usually punctuated by Daddy Rune doing a bum note solo reclining on the living room floor in just his underpants and socks and commenting on the waft, scent and wetness. Not to mention the Hound Rune letting a few dogfood scented fluffs go at the same time. It happens most evenings without fail as well. The only variation to this family ritual is when company is expected, such as my long suffering O.H Ashe. Daddy Rune then dons a t-shirt in addition to the pants and socks ensemble to appear more "respectable".

Serious thoughts are afoot to make a Rune Family crest with buttocks resplendent citing the age old rhyme. And underneath in schoolboy Latin the phrase "He who smelt it, Dealt it."
(, Thu 20 Nov 2008, 19:31, 4 replies)
second line...
"be it church or chapel, let it go with a rattle"
It was Lancashire I was brought up.
(, Thu 20 Nov 2008, 20:31, closed)
Extended version
My mum tells me this used to be my great grandma's motto which she used to say before shaking the foundations with one of her special brand depth charges.

She used to recite the extended Wiltshire version...

"Wherever you be, let your wind blow free,
In Church an' Chapel, let it rattle,
Or else it be the death o' me"
(, Fri 21 Nov 2008, 10:11, closed)
I tried being clever
and told my 5 year old niece that "whoever smelt it dealt it", she just looked disdainfully at me and said "Whoever said the rhyme, they did the crime" before flouncing off. She was right too.
(, Fri 21 Nov 2008, 13:20, closed)
"he who denied it
supplied it"
(, Fri 21 Nov 2008, 22:06, closed)

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