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Post by mari on Dec 7, 2006 17:56:47 GMT -5
 Hope your Nikolas was a good one! ;D  Thanks… and how can a day with chocolate possibly be bad ;D  To tease you a bit about what you’re missing, Mia ;D (Hä, hä, hä – or whatever the right English spelling of evil laughter might be)  So you do have chocolate Easter-bunnies?  So are these faux boots, like our stockings on Christmas Eve? As in you don't wear them and they could probably fit a giant? Nope, real, normal boot, so I with my small feet would be bad off if my mother hadn’t sewed Nikolaus-stockings… So is this like a donut or a cookie? Or what? Hm, no it’s a little man formed from a butter-yeast dough with raisin eyes and sometimes a chocolate baton. Can’t find a photo. Did they get to hit back at least? Or would that just guarantee them a beatdown the following year as well?  Hm, I guess they were good, respectful kids, not such baaaad and terrible rude brats like my generation… ;D |
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Post by mari on Feb 15, 2007 11:51:42 GMT -5
Today is Hemdglunki (Hemd - shirt, Glunki is dialect for a sloppy person) in south-western Germany ;D. Pictures from a neighboured town: home.arcor.de/martin.brust/hemdglunki2004/IMG_1403.htmlhome.arcor.de/martin.brust/hemdglunki2004/IMG_1391.html(I’m still too stupid to make pictures show up  )People wear white nightgowns, nightcaps, striped stockings and go on a procession with torches and bands playing slightly off-key, afterwards there’s partying with lots of alcohol of all kinds of course. Often people take off the next day or go to work in their nightgown, at my school lessons weren’t possible because most of us had hangovers and / or were too sleep-deprived ;D. Houses are decorated with inflated pig bladders which are also carried around on wipe-like sticks and used to hit each other until they explode. (I always hated that part ) What do you do at Weiberfasching, tigrou, cutting off neckties? |
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Post by dzero on Feb 15, 2007 16:23:33 GMT -5
^^^ Never heard of this one mari, sounds fun  hmmmm walking around in your jammies, drinking beer....I think that could catch on here in the U.S. ;D |
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Post by Aerie on Feb 16, 2007 2:03:47 GMT -5
;D It just caught on at my house - I'm doing it now.  |
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Post by spikeloud on Feb 16, 2007 12:56:46 GMT -5
that paints a picture in my head ..beer and jammies....often what happens when you go clubbing...and after
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Post by tigrou on Feb 16, 2007 15:42:34 GMT -5
Weiberfasching = hangover
In my area we dress as witches, the uglier the better, and walk from bar to bar, where we sing alcohol-related songs and get shots for free. It's basically like Treats or Tricks (or is it Tricks or Treats?), but based on alcohol.
If you're female, dressed as a witch and sing as off-key as possible, alcohol is for free. The whole night. Very bad hangover. Each year.
The guys dress as witches, too, and try to get the free shots. They try, because the women beat them with broomsticks... So much fun... ;D ;D ;D
I met a lot of old friends from school last night and came back home at 8:30 a.m. (Which is early for Weiberfasching).
Same with us. I remember a biology lesson with 6 students out of 28 and we slept the whole time. Our teacher didn't care. After all, it's Weiberfasching...
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Post by shywriter on Feb 20, 2007 10:43:34 GMT -5
 Happy Mardi Gras, everyone! Laissez le bon temps rollez! (throw me sump'thin,' Mister!) |
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Post by mari on Feb 20, 2007 15:56:12 GMT -5
Bon Mardi Gras!Are these necklaces only for women? (If so, what do the guys get?) Aren’t there other things thrown ( my English has a lack of carnival terms) from the procession cars? No sweets, chips, chocolate bars, roses, oranges…? No confetti? (I think I’m going to rename myself into ‘question-monster’ or something like that )
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Post by shywriter on Feb 20, 2007 16:50:31 GMT -5
Virtual beads to you! ;D Everyone goes for beads, male and female, and during the parades you generally don't have to "earn" them by flashing anything!  They do throw other things (I read this year they're going "back to the basics" like plastic cups) but depending on the parade they have collector beads, frisbees, small stuffed toys, ... one throws coconuts (one assumes decorated ones!  ) small tote bags... I went few couple years ago and they were actually heaving spears into the crowd, medium-soft plastic tip but on a long (1 yard or so) wooden dowel rod! I imagine they had a few injuries, raining them down onto hordes of drunken revelers! One of my friends (male) ignored most of the beads but wanted a spear so badly! He never got one... and after the parade some little kid about seven years old walked by with at least a dozen or more... my friend looked crestfallen... we told him we'd give the kid $5 or 10 bucks for one, so he could have one too, but he said it just wouldn't be the same... That was the same night I caught a couple doubloons from Nicholas Cage! (the King of Baccus that year.) It was from about 10 feet away; I'm not a very good catcher so it was a surprise!  (he had a fancy outfit, but no, that's not him in the dress)
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Post by shywriter on Feb 20, 2007 16:58:57 GMT -5
Happy Mardi Gras!Here's King Nicholas...  Happy Mardi Gras!
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Post by spikeloud on Feb 20, 2007 17:21:46 GMT -5
the ghost rider???
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Post by mari on Feb 20, 2007 18:16:48 GMT -5
Cool pics! Very colorful! Everyone goes for beads, male and female, and during the parades you generally don't have to "earn" them by flashing anything! So what I read somewhere a few years ago about New Orleans carnival seems to be right after all… (And hey, does the shirtless Logan discussion fit in here? I’d give him all my virtual beads ;D) |
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Post by shywriter on Feb 20, 2007 18:46:31 GMT -5
The very same! (But he wasn't on fire, exactly...) |
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Post by dzero on Mar 17, 2007 19:20:54 GMT -5
Happy St. Patricks Day everybody  My favorite thing to order on St Patricks Day? Newcastle  Just to f^ck with em ;D  |
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Post by Aerie on Mar 17, 2007 22:04:16 GMT -5
It's 8 o'clock my time and I'm off to Tom Bergin's to drink green beer and eat corned beef and cabbage. Hope you all are having a great St Patrick's day. |
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) small tote bags... I went few couple years ago and they were actually heaving spears into the crowd, medium-soft plastic tip but on a long (1 yard or so) wooden dowel rod! I imagine they had a few injuries, raining them down onto hordes of drunken revelers! One of my friends (male) ignored most of the beads but wanted a spear so badly! He never got one... and after the parade some little kid about seven years old walked by with at least a dozen or more... my friend looked crestfallen... we told him we'd give the kid $5 or 10 bucks for one, so he could have one too, but he said it just wouldn't be the same...