Re: Nerd Boy, episode 321

In article <3e0a0598$0$35879$edf...@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.

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