X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,c5a63aa6bf1d4d16 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-12-27 19:16:04 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!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: Sat, 28 Dec 2002 03:16:28 -0000 Lines: 113 Message-ID: References: <3e0a0598$0$35879$edfadb0f@dread15.news.tele.dk> <3e0cc552$0$35809$edfadb0f@dread15.news.tele.dk> NNTP-Posting-Host: edendev.demon.co.uk X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 1041045364 19390 193.237.172.117 (28 Dec 2002 03:16:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2002 03:16:04 +0000 (UTC) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 X-Priority: 3 X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Xref: archiver1.google.com alt.ascii-art:21241 "CeeJay" wrote in message news:3e0cc552$0$35809$edfadb0f@dread15.news.tele.dk... > >> 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. > > Some families have a tradition that they give little gifts all day to the > youngest, with a few hours in between. > > This way when they start nagging too much you stick a gift in their face and > the nagging goes away for a few hours. > Then the real gift comes with all the other gifts. That sounds like good sense to me ;-) > Some also do calendergifts where the child each day (morning) gets to open a > present. > It's called "adventsgaver" - "Gaver" means presents , "advent" is the time > leading up to chrismas. We do that too, except its an advent calendar. Basically its made out of cardboard with 24 little window things in it that are initially hidden. Each day you open one and there's a picture behind it. Some of them have chocolate in also. > > 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 ? :) > > Yes I do think it would work. > BUT you would also have to give twice as many presents :) > But you could get to celebrate christmas twice if you could do with little > sleep. That's true. Would also need to do a lot of flying, so owning a plane would help :) > >> 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). > > Move either the tree or the TV - And unplug the TV. > Many people I know with little room keep the tree against a wall .. and move > it when they are done eating .. and move the table they were eating by up > against the wall instead so there is room. Sounds too much like hard work, but not that easy this year anyway. We are having the house decorated, so there's actually no room to move anything. We have the tree by the front door (and it takes up half the width of the hallway, which isnt very wide to start with) since there's no room *anywhere* else in the house due to stuff being already put there so it's out of the way for the decorating. Access to stuff under the tree was pretty interesting :) > >> 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 ;-) > > With me specificly .. no - never. > I have never gotten a hangover in my life. And I do drink .. I can just > control my drinking and keep it too a level where I do not feel ill from it > .. but still feel the other effects as I have an extremly low treshhold for > alcohol. > 1 beer makes me cheerful , 2 makes me very happy and I have lost a lot of > inhibitions. > 3 makes me loose nearly all my inhibitions (but not all my sanity) 4 affects > my judgement and my balance and all my inhibitions have gone at this point. > I very rarely drink more. Same here. I just get very ill the night I get drunk, and am mostly fine the day after. > But with others .. definatly yes. > Then again .. if someone is inclined to get drunk on christmas .. what to > stop them from repeating the "succes" the next day .. and the day after .. > and the next day ? Another theory is if you sleep little enough that the alcohol doesnt wear off then start drinking as soon as you wake up you'll be permanantly drunk without getting a hangover. However, I believe they call that "being an alcoholic" so its probably not such a good idea afterall :) > Christmas have plenty of excuses to party. > Today f.x. we have american friends visiting for an after-chrismas party. > We had a similar one yesterday. > > Plenty of parties and gettogether's.:) Then you have new years and it starts all over again (parties), then you swear never to eat or drink so much ever again, then it happens all over again next year ;-) T.