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Local Ritual Culture
« on: December 11, 2022, 06:31:19 pm »
In Manitoba, we have "wedding socials" where an engaged couple rent a hall and sell tickets and sell alcohol and hire a music man and have a silent auction for crap they begged from local businesses, and then they lay out free cheese and Winnipeg rye bread and kielbasa and other cold cuts for drunk people to eat. They make a lot of money

Then I was watching a podcast from the They Might Be Giants guy (where he explains Birdhouse in Your Soul is from the point of view of a nightlight) and at the 38 minute mark he talks about their song "If Day for Winnipeg", which made me wonder if maybe not every city has a traditional ritual day of pretending the Nazis won.
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Offline Michael Hardner

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Re: Local Ritual Culture
« Reply #1 on: December 11, 2022, 07:57:51 pm »
So... Is 'If Day' real?

Not sure what Toronto's version of this would be.

We also have undone our traditions in favour of more practical pursuits.

There's a major street - Spadina -whose prenunciation is debated.  That's a little odd.
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Re: Local Ritual Culture
« Reply #2 on: December 11, 2022, 09:28:06 pm »
Of course. Unfortunately it can sometimes get out of hand.
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