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This is the best question ever... By the way I do the 'Norbert Dentressangle' thing too.

When you're on holiday you have to spot Renault Twingos. You have to shout Twingo when you see one, you get points. Then you win.

When you've finished a boiled egg, turn it upside down in the egg cup and give it to your dad/mum/sister whoever, they think it's a new egg, and HILARIOUSLY try to open it - yes, this has been funny for all 23 years of my life and it still cracks me up.

Superstition stuff - I used to do lots of debating at school (insert your lame pun here) and was rather good at it. However I could ONLY win a competition if I was wearing John Lewis 20 denier nearly black tights. Any other tights would bring doom upon my perfomance, my school, and possibly the whole world. I also had to eat a McDonalds apple pie, but this was more to do with the sugar high giving me the arrogance necessary to destroy any point some arrogant suit-wearing floppy-haired public schoolboy might raise... They thought they could out-argue me because daddy owned half of Lincolnshire... My sugar high says silence, fool!

Actual tradition - I went to Cambridge and got scholared - I had to wear a gown and stand in a long line in a room with no electricity before swearing to lead 'a life of innocency and diligence' in Latin whilst kneeling in front of a man in a Henry the 8th hat. Then - and this the 'on thursdays' part - we got seed cake and madeira - at 3 in the afternoon. Like, what??? Seed cake??? 'Oooh, you're really clever, have some sponge cake with budgie food in it?' This said, I thought it was awesome. It did make an impression on me which is the point of traditions I suppose... Ritual and Romance.

Right, this is my second ever post, sorry for it being excessively long and full of typos. I'll go now. In fact I haven't had McDOnalds apple pie for about 6 years so I think I know where I'm going, too...
(Mademoiselle_violette, Thu 28 Jul 2005, 15:00, Reply)