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Post by NASH7777 on Apr 17, 2006 21:20:25 GMT -5
Happy Dyngus Day Everyone!!!!
May the fertility be bestowed upon you all, an your legs not too reddened nor wet.
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Post by NASH7777 on Apr 17, 2006 21:32:07 GMT -5
FOR THOSE WHO DON'T KNOW en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyngus_DayDyngus Day Traditionally, boys will awaken girls early in the morning and douse them with water and strike them about the legs with long thin twigs made from willow, birch or decorated tree branches (palmy wielkanocne). This practice is possibly connected to a pre-Christian, pagan fertility rite Later the focus became the courting aspect of the ritual, and young unmarried girls were the only acceptable targets. A boy would sneak into the bedroom of the particular girl he fancied and awaken her by completely drenching her with multiple buckets of water. Politics played an important role in proceedings, and often the boy would get access to the house only by arrangement with the girl's mother. Throughout the day girls would find themselves the victims of drenchings and leg-whippings, and a daughter who wasn't targeted for such activities was generally considered to be beznadziejna (hopeless) in this very coupling-oriented environment. |
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Post by Doan the Nado on Apr 17, 2006 22:57:19 GMT -5
...wish I had known about the holiday this morning when I awakened next to my girlfriend. I'm sure she would have loved a good drenching.
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Post by NASH7777 on Apr 18, 2006 9:48:14 GMT -5
That would have been HILARIOUS. Not only would she freak cause you dumped a pail of cold water on her, but that fact that you would be sitting there beating her legs with sticks would just be like WTF! HAHaha, Man would she be super pissed, esp after you've just freaked her out with that internet game too. I'm sure the "Happy Dyngus Day" would make all better right? lol Too bad....I'll have to make an earlier anouncement next year.
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Post by islandjack on Apr 18, 2006 13:52:41 GMT -5
Didn't know you were Polish, Nash!
(If you're not, I apologize, but if you are, congratulations!)
My parents were born in Poland, and I've always been aware of Dyngus. Of course, I've had some trouble convincing my wife (who is an American of German descent) that Dyngus actually exists. I probably should have explained it years ago when we first moved in together instead of just beating her with a stick.
I blame the fact of being a 1st generation American on leaving the buckets of water part out, but my parents were really big on "being American," but to me, the fun part always had to do with the sticks.
As an aside, I went to an all-polish catholic school when I was younger and though we didn't have school on Easter Monday, the nuns (our teachers) would always throw something in about Dyngus on Tuesday when we got back to school, especially if any of the girls in our class were misbehaving.
Good stuff.
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Post by NASH7777 on Apr 18, 2006 19:28:24 GMT -5
Yes indeed I am polish. We good-looking Polish people should stick together lol. Actually I'm only 25% but it's all good.
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Post by islandjack on Apr 25, 2006 12:52:54 GMT -5
Yeah 25% is all good.
I've been working for the past week on my Dyngus mini-game for "The Misadventures of Hooligan & Rude Boy..." It might take up some memory needed for the climactic fight I had planned, but it's just too much freakin' fun.
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