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Topic: Holidays/Traditions
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Oxychick
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posted August 27, 2003 10:03 AM
 
I quite agree.Got my knee-high, 3" leather boots last year and I love them. Ah, can't wait for autumn,  IP: Logged |
RubyRedRam
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posted August 27, 2003 10:16 AM
Hey guys, I have a tradition coming up that's always fun! My boy's footy team have won every game this year and finals have just started. If we lose and get ousted from the finals we go on a weeks drinking binge and party hard. If you work that week, you miss out so nearly everyone has t'd up time off work. If we win the grand final, which is a high possibility, it will be about a months worth of partying!! I can't wait! Our club queen (my best mate) also looks set to win the queen quest (fundraising quest) and she is pumped for a huge party so  I will let you know how the boys go!! First qualifying final this weekend. IP: Logged |
Lost Leo
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posted August 27, 2003 02:09 PM
Sounds like a rip-roaring good time RRR!I wish your team luck! IP: Logged |
RubyRedRam
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posted August 28, 2003 01:53 AM
Thanx LL I will let you know!!!IP: Logged |
Cat
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posted August 28, 2003 04:27 AM
Now here's a  holiday tradition  Todays News....... Thousands Take Part in Spain Tomato Fight TENS of thousands of people got pasted in eastern Spain on Wednesday in one of the country's most popular summer festivals - the annual tomato-throwing festival. Participants pelted each other with overripe tomatoes, turning the streets of this eastern Spanish town into red, juicy pools in an annual festival known as La Tomatina.' It is said to be the world's largest tomato battle. Last year, the crowd numbered around 38,000 - more than four times the population of Bunol, a town close to the coast. Within minutes, the streets, the revellers and nearby buildings were splashed with red. National radio reported that nearby residents protected their facades with plastic sheets. Others dumped buckets of water onto the participants from balconies overlooking the fight, RNE said. The tomato fight in Bunol has become one of Spain's most popular summer festivals, often drawing people from as far as Japan and Australia. The festival, held the last Wednesday of every August, started in the 1940s when children started throwing their lunch at each other one day in a downtown square, at a time when the region's tomato exports were starting to pick up. They met again the following year, this time pelting passers-by as well and giving birth to the tradition. IP: Logged |
RubyRedRam
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posted August 28, 2003 06:41 AM
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trillian
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posted August 28, 2003 10:08 AM
Tomato fights....reminds me of the fun old days in boarding school, food fights in the dining room. Infrequent, but awesome!
Oh...Hmmm...I have a pair of 5" stiletto heels...love 'em loads, and want more!
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Oxychick
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posted August 28, 2003 10:12 AM
5" stilletos?? I wish I could do that. Honestly, I've only started wearing pointy heels, but nothing higher than 2 1/2" yet. my 3" heels are thin but wide.Cat, the tomato throwing sounds like fun (and a lot less dangerous than running with bulls). IP: Logged |
Aphrodite
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posted August 28, 2003 10:24 AM
Another racy lady, Trillian! 
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Lost Leo
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posted August 28, 2003 12:35 PM
We NEED to stop talk about heels/stilettos & leather boots... IP: Logged |
trillian
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posted August 28, 2003 01:40 PM
Yes, but today I'm wearing little rubber flip flops! The 5" heels are truly awesome, but as stilettos, at least this pair, they can only be worn on a date with someone whose arm you can hold on to for the evening...say, a dinner where you don't have to stand for long! I love nasty shoes, just can't wear 'em every day. Sorry, Lost Leo. Back to our regularly scheduled holiday chat... IP: Logged |
Lost Leo
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posted August 28, 2003 02:50 PM
I read in the "Oddly Enough" Section of online news...That stiletto heel was used by a woman to kill her x-boyfriend outside a LA bar one night a few months ago...  IP: Logged |
Aphrodite
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posted August 28, 2003 02:58 PM
The truly wicked have the best of both worlds:  Crystal Seamless Boot • In black napa leather.
• Seamless for the smoothest line up the leg.
• Side darts at top of shaft.
• Back zip with faux crystal ornament on pull tab.
• 3 1/2" stiletto heel.
• Made in Italy. Michael Kors
Crystal Seamless Boot
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Cat
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posted August 28, 2003 03:23 PM
I have an ankle high version of those in black and also in brown...both with 4 inch heels  PS: LOL at how we've managed to get to stilettos on a holiday traditon string IP: Logged |
Oxychick
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posted August 28, 2003 03:28 PM
Hey Cat-did you get stuck on the train in London? I heard there was a brief power outage there.IP: Logged |
Cat
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posted August 28, 2003 03:31 PM
Hi Oxychick
No...I didn't even know that happened here today. I've been at home all day - got workmen doing stuff in the house.....plus it's been raining...yuck...so didn't bother to go out.
Thanks for thinking about me 
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Aphrodite
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posted August 28, 2003 04:16 PM
Hi Sue,Spain has some funky traditions. In addition to tomato throwing, there is also a town that releases raging, angry male bulls onto the streets. There was a teacher in my class this spring who went there, along with thousands of others for a chance to run alongside a bull on the street. He said there was a man who had a horn pierced through his forearm. Drunk people are policed out of the crowds before the crack of dawn, when everybody lines up. He said there were about 6 bulls released, and in different parts of town  Amy IP: Logged |
Oxychick
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posted August 28, 2003 04:31 PM
Raining in England? Noo...I don't believe you! Well, maybe it's good-cool off from all that heat. IP: Logged |
Cat
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posted August 28, 2003 06:10 PM
Hi Amy
Spain do have some real traditions...
Running with the bulls is really very dangerous though I don't think they release as many bulls now as they used to do - which is a good thing. The tomato throwing day is attracting more and more people each year. I guess it's like a giant red "custard pie" fight... Hi Oxychick
Rain...ewwww.....I want the heatwave back Sue IP: Logged |
trillian
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posted August 28, 2003 08:51 PM
oooOOoooOOOoo...I love those boots.
A little something for the dominatrix in us all. ------------------
Reality has always had too many heads IP: Logged |
Oxychick
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posted August 29, 2003 06:52 AM
LOL trillian. I dressed as a dominatrix one year for Halloween (don;t worry, I was with friends. I had various friends mail me peices of the costume-a whip, spiked collar, corset, some weird netted thing...sure beat the Dorothy costume.  Hmm..2 months till Halloween. IP: Logged |
trillian
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posted August 29, 2003 10:11 AM
Oxychick...did you have men following you around on their knees?
I love Halloween, can't wait! But I hate how homogonized it's become in some areas. There are schools that won't allow children to dress like witches or goblins anymore, such ridiculous fears. One school I know of doesn't even call it Halloween, they refer to it as some sort of Harvest celebration, and only allow children to dress as pilgrims, corn, vegetables, what they consider benign costumes. 
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Oxychick
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posted August 29, 2003 10:24 AM
THAT would have been soemthing. No knees, but some guys did beg to get whipped.  Not saying of course, that I obliged. Uhh.. *scratches head* Yeah, that stinks about how limited children are in some places. I think Halloween is a great time for kids to play on their creativity. IP: Logged |
Aphrodite
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posted August 29, 2003 10:35 AM
Siousxie Sue . . . you dangerous thing! 4-inch stilettos, and two pairs to boot! Trillian Oxychick  Now I am inspired to add Dominatrix to my list of costume possibilities this Halloween! IP: Logged |
lioneye68
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posted August 29, 2003 11:22 AM
Hmmm. Leather. Something about the smell of leather on a man that's so sexy. Dunno why.I like wearing high heels mainly because I'm a shorty, and it's fun to be taller sometimes. Plus, wearing high heels really seems to accentuate the figure somehow. Yup, they're like the cherry on top of a MMMMCHWAW (kissy noise) outfit. (or, a cherry on the bottom I guess) Domanatrix...yeah, no doubt that would be a super fun Hallow's Eve get up!!
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