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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Every New Year's DayMy friends and I go outside at the stroke of twelve, drop our trousers (just trousers, not kecks) around our ankles and waddle around like penguins. It's been going on for about 12 years now, and in various locations - last year one mate lost £40 out of his pockets waddling round the streets of Cambridge and the year before that we here having lightsaber duels on Brighton beach.
For the year 2000 we were outside saluting passing emergency vehicles with our trousers down when one of my friends whips out a short firework, jams it in the drain-cover at the side of the road and lights it. The thing fizzed for a while then nearly took out a passing ambulance as it fired up a rocket. What we didn't realise was that it was a two-shot firework - the first had blown it through the drain-cover and the second caused a geyser of dirty drainwater to shoot twenty feet into the air, all over us and our celebrating neighbours.
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emvee cruor deo cruoris, Mon 1 Aug 2005, 14:48,
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