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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I am a member of an "extreme sports" clubwhich has over the past 21 years developed the excellent tradition of the Pink Pimms Party. This involves large numbers of people convening in a field in Oxford on May Morning, from 7am in the morning. These people will all arrive wearing head to toe pink, and bearing a bottle of Pimms, which is entered into a vat of lemonade, fruit, and more Pimms. The aforementioned tasty beverage is consumed throughout the day, during which the following will at some point occur:
- Bridge swinging
- Dancing round a maypole
- Firing spud guns at passing punts (and on one occasion, Jeremy Paxman)
- Setting fire to a Christmas tree
- Death slides
- Dry ice bombs
..basically continuing until everyone passes out. Juvenile? perhaps. Fun? very much so.
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tipassoi, Thu 28 Jul 2005, 17:29,
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