LL-L "Traditions" 2004.08.25 (04) [E]

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From: Troy Sagrillo <meshwesh at bigfoot.com>
Subject: LL-L "Traditions" 2004.08.24 (13) [E]

on 24.08.2004 11.21 PM, Pat Reynolds <pat at caerlas.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> What I do, as a visitor to friends in the Low Countries, find
> fascinating, is the back-of-the-toilet-door calendar with everyone's
> birthday on it.

As a Yank in Flanders, I see these calendars all the time. I thought
(mistakenly?) that it was an English custom as well as most I've seen are
printed in English in England.

Reinhard mentioned the German custom of the "party pig" being the one to buy
drinks, pies, cakes, etc. for his or her own birthday celebrations. That is
done in Flanders as well -- and caused me a bit of embarrassment when I
first celebrated my birthday here under the American assumption that my
in-laws would be buying me a birthday cake or pie :-)

Best,

Troy

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From: Thomas <t.mcrae at uq.net.au>
Subject: LL-L "Traditions" 2004.08.24 (13) [E]

> Reply-To: lowlands-l at LOWLANDS-L.NET
 OnTue, 24 Aug 2004 14:21:18 -0700 Pat Reynolds <pat at caerlas.demon.co.uk
wrote...
> Spanking isn't an English tradition. In England, children used to be
> given 'the bumps' (held by arms and legs, and gently, or not-so-gently
> bounced on the ground, once for each year) by their peers.
In Scotland, at least in the Lothians, a schoolkids was gien his/her "Dumps"
on their birthday by most other kids in his school class and the street
where he/she lived.
Victim had to turn round then the Dumper would thump the back once for each
year of the age counting aloud as this was done. The ceremony ended after
the final year dump with several bonuses.."Yin fur the Day. Yin fur the
Moarun. Yin fur the day that Yew wur boarun (extra hard one). An yin fur the
auld man's kick." This latter was accompanied by a kick up the victim's bum.
A queue of friends usually formed to administer this blessing.
While I write in past tense I am sure this game is still played.

Regards
Tom
Tom Mc Rae PSOC
Brisbane Australia
"The masonnis suld mak housis stark and rude,
To keep the pepill frome the stormes strang,
And he that fals, the craft it gois all wrang."
>>From 15th century Scots Poem 'The Buke of the Chess'

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