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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Hey Luke...Every year around July and/or October me and my friends visit a little Welsh cottage for a long weekend break. The cottage is used by many youth groups and is hired out very cheaply (one of the main reasons we go). Therefore the rooms are communial with everyone sleeping together (Oo Er Missus ect.)
Now over the year a tradition has grown up that when we go to cottage we must spend all our time getting each other to say "What?" when were all trying to get to sleep - regardless of how annoying it is. When they say "What?" you promptly respond with "You Smell" and thats that. So the general conversation would go...
"Hey Luke"
"What?"
"You Smell"
Of course this becomes slightly old very quickly, so other methods are put in play...
"Oh i've got to get up early tomorrow to do that thing"
"What?"
"You smell"
"Does anyone know the unit for power?"
"Watt"
"You smell"
(or the best)
"*bang* OUCH!"
"What?"
"You smell"
This often goes on until around 3am when everyone gets fed up and annoyed - I haven't got a clue why we do it, and in all fairness I think it annoys everyone and we all wish it would stop, but we can't - its tradition. :P
And his gravestone read -
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Grinned2Death knows what Willis was talking about, Tue 2 Aug 2005, 23:24,
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