Weird TraditionsTalking with a friend yesterday about school dinners, she suddenly said, "We had to march into the dining room behind the School Band... except on Thursdays." Since all of us were now staring, she qualified this with, "...on Thursdays there was no wind section. It was a tradition."
What weird stuff have you been made to do "because it's a tradition."
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chthonic, Thu 28 Jul 2005, 11:11)
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Fairy BridgeThere's a bridge on the Isle of Man, on the Douglas-to-Castletown road - a tiny humpback bridge - under which the wee folk of Mananan live. No, really.
They like nothing better than polite people, but despise the curt or rude. Seriously. Whenever one crosses the bridge, one must say "Hello fairies" (preferably in Manx Gaelic), and the wee folk will grant you a wish - because they can. And these wishes come true. Honest. I always wished for world peace, and see - it *has* happened, hasn't it?
But should you fail to greet the fairies when crossing the bridge, they'll curse you! Oh yes. Terrible things have befallen the rude travellers who failed to hail the good wee folk of Mananan. Dreadful, sinister things. Like, er... um... well, I lost my car keys - for almost an hour! Er...
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no cake for the impuritay Patrick Stewart hasn't aged since, Thu 28 Jul 2005, 14:20,
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