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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Oldest educational institution in Englandso we are inevitably going to have thousands of stupid traditions. A few crackers are:
Every 100 years, the fellows of All Souls have to chase a wooden duck around the quad and sing a silly song about it.
Every year, when daylight savings time is applied, everyone at Merton has to dress up in sub fusc and walk backwards round the main quad drinking port, in order to preserve the space/time continuum, or something
Christ Church has its own time zone, 5 minutes ahead of the rest of the country
Come May Day, just about everyone in the universtiy goes down to Magdalen bridge, gets stupidly drunk, and breaks both legs jumping off into 3 feet of filthy water.
All this from arguably the greatest university in the country. I dread to think what madness the filthy tabs get up to.
(, Thu 28 Jul 2005, 14:43, Reply)
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