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[Mark Mandel]

For those who, like me, don't know Swedish, or at least not the word:

Elvavrålet (Swedish: the eleven roar) is a student tradition where students
at universities and colleges at a certain time every night in student
residential areas (22:00 or 23:00, on Lappkärrsberget only Tuesdays) open
their windows, go out onto balconies or rooftops and scream to relieve
stress.

The roar is also called the Delphi roar (after the student residential area
Delphi in Lund), the Flogsta roar,[1][2] (after the neighborhood Flogsta in
Uppsala) the Lappkärr cry (after the neighborhood Lappkärrsberget in
Stockholm), the Ten cry, the Tuesday scream or Anxiety scream. The
phenomenon has been known since the 1970s, and has been the subject of
academic papers.
*[citation needed] *
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elvavr%C3%A5let]

On Sat, Mar 28, 2020 at 9:57 PM Barretts Mail <mail.barretts at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I just saw one instance each of “primal scream o’clock” and “joyful noise”
> on a neighborhood list for relieving stress. People are warning that it
> will cause a lot of 911 calls.
>
> No idea if this is a thing or will become one.
>
> Benjamin Barrett (he/his/him)
> Formerly of Seattle, WA
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