X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,c5a63aa6bf1d4d16 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-12-26 12:07:28 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!kibo.news.demon.net!news.demon.co.uk!demon!not-for-mail From: Tom Bampton Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: Nerd Boy, episode 321 Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2002 20:07:48 -0000 Organization: Not a hell of a lot Lines: 49 Message-ID: References: <3e0a0598$0$35879$edfadb0f@dread15.news.tele.dk> NNTP-Posting-Host: edendev.demon.co.uk X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 1040933248 12793 193.237.172.117 (26 Dec 2002 20:07:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2002 20:07:28 +0000 (UTC) X-Newsreader: MicroPlanet Gravity v2.60 Xref: archiver1.google.com alt.ascii-art:21213 In article <3e0a0598$0$35879$edfadb0f@dread15.news.tele.dk>, news2003 @ceejay.cjb says... > >> I only found out yesterday that you guys do the christmas thing on > >> 24th. Do you know why? Nobody seemed to know when we were talking > >> about it yesterday. > > > > My guess is because it's the way they do it in Germany, the home of > > der Tannenbaum and Saint Nick. If I'm not entirely mistaken, they open > > their presents on the night between the 24th and 25th. Not exactly how > > we do it; we can't wait till nightfall, but then again it's always > > dark as night at winter around here. > > We opened our presents yesterday on the 24th around 8 o'clock in the > evening. > It's the way it's done here in Denmark. Kids here would love that. They usually get really impatient. I have a theory that I could go to Norway/Sweden/Denmark/etc for the 24th then here for the 25th and thus get twice as many presents. Do you think it would work ? :) > You spend the day with your family and go to church during the day .. when > the evening comes you gather and eat christmas dinner , cookies , chocolate > , marcipan .. etc. Ah, I forgot about the church bit. Some people here go to church at midnight on the 24th. > Then you join hands and dance/walk around the christmas tree singing. I dont fancy dancing around a christmas tree singing. Considering the positioning of trees in homes here, it would be downright dangerous. (It's usually against a wall near the TV). > Then you a place to sit down while some of the more impatient (usually the > younger) looks at each present and reads it's to/from label and brings the > presents to the people they are for. > When all presents are delivered they also sit down themselves to open all > the presents they recieved. That part is pretty much the same here. > Around midnight people go home or go into town to continue celebrating > depending on preference. Aha! So with you, you have hangovers on christmas day rather then the day after ;-) T.