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lilly Posted Tue 15 Dec, 2009 10:39 AM |
Cynthia wrote: 1,200 lights, hundreds of German glass ornaments :)
ooooooohhhh my God, you LOOOVE Christmas ornaments, don't you? :)
Damn, I'd have had the perfect unsecret Santa present for you, then:
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monkey Posted Tue 15 Dec, 2009 10:52 AM |
weirdmom wrote: minnmess wrote: monkey wrote: minnmess wrote: monkey wrote: [
my ma can be contaced at mysonisawesome@thisistrue.com
I didnt know you had a brother!!! I thought it was just the twin sis
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and YOU say my jokes are bad!
I do not! I say your jokes are horrible.
I have to side with the Canadian on this one.
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weirdmom Posted Tue 15 Dec, 2009 3:40 PM |
| You are a funny monkey but some of your one-liners are truly painful. For example the one about vista. I don't want to relive it. |
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Cynthia Posted Tue 15 Dec, 2009 4:38 PM |
lilly wrote: Cynthia wrote: 1,200 lights, hundreds of German glass ornaments :)
ooooooohhhh my God, you LOOOVE Christmas ornaments, don't you? :)
Damn, I'd have had the perfect unsecret Santa present for you, then:
Love isn't strong enough a term - it's more of an addiction, an illness - I know I have too many (they don't all even fit on my tree) and yet I can't stop collecting them. I wish I could see the images you posted - maybe I just can't view them because I'm at work right now. |
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Cynthia Posted Tue 15 Dec, 2009 4:41 PM |
| Okay, my European boardie dears - help clear something up for this ignorant American. Is there or is there not an old Christmas tradition involving a glass pickle ornament on the Christmas tree? Is this just a fabricated marketing farse? |
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thewishlist Posted Tue 15 Dec, 2009 5:54 PM |
Cynthia wrote:
Love isn't strong enough a term - it's more of an addiction, an illness - I know I have too many (they don't all even fit on my tree) and yet I can't stop collecting them. I wish I could see the images you posted - maybe I just can't view them because I'm at work right now.
ahh, maybe it's not working for anyone... I'll try and change the links...
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thewishlist Posted Tue 15 Dec, 2009 5:57 PM |
lilly wrote: Cynthia wrote: 1,200 lights, hundreds of German glass ornaments :)
ooooooohhhh my God, you LOOOVE Christmas ornaments, don't you? :)
Damn, I'd have had the perfect unsecret Santa present for you, then:
can you see them now? |
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thewishlist Posted Tue 15 Dec, 2009 6:21 PM |
Cynthia wrote: Okay, my European boardie dears - help clear something up for this ignorant American. Is there or is there not an old Christmas tradition involving a glass pickle ornament on the Christmas tree? Is this just a fabricated marketing farse?
lol - there was an article on that exact story in the newspaper a few weeks ago... can you read German? or do you know someone who can? --> then you should read the article ;D
It seems to be a very "American" thing to believe that Germans put one pickle ornament on their Christmas tree (I guess the story you know goes like this: one glass pickle is hung on the tree and the child that finds it first gets an extra present, or can open their presents first, or something like that).
I'm German, I've grown up here - and although my dad was not from Germany, I had one German grandmother who was very much into traditional Christmas: I had NEVER EVER heard about that pickle thing until I read that article.
The article even says that it's supposed to be a FRANCONIAN tradition (Franconia is a region in the North of Bavaria) - now, my Grandma WAS from that particular part of the country, she grew up and lived there for 87 years, and as I said, I've never heard about (let alone seen) pickle ornaments ;)
The story gets better:
Apparently, many many American tourists asked for pickle-ornaments in German shops and so some ornament-companies have started making them to satisfy the (American) demand. And because the whole tradition seems so special (and kinda weird), GERMANS have started to buy them, too.
So, all in all it seems to be a tradition that was invented by some German emigrants (maybe one family thought it was a nice idea to do it and told other emigrants about it who thought it was a "German thing"?) - and then it was brought back to Germany by market-forces, tourism and the media in the 21st century ;D |
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Turtleneck Posted Tue 15 Dec, 2009 6:38 PM |
*blushes* we have a pickle ornament. We bought it at Frankenmuth, Michigan. Each year, we let a different child hang it up and let the other two try to find it. There is no reward other than being the winner.
But we have other made-up traditions, too. There is an ugly ornament that I don't like. I try not to hang it. Don sneaks it out of the box and hangs it somewhere and waits for me to notice. I'll move it to the back of the tree. He'll move it to the front. And this is the type of people we are. |
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thewishlist Posted Tue 15 Dec, 2009 6:46 PM |
Turtleneck wrote: *blushes* we have a pickle ornament. We bought it at Frankenmuth, Michigan. Each year, we let a different child hang it up and let the other two try to find it. There is no reward other than being the winner.
But we have other made-up traditions, too. There is an ugly ornament that I don't like. I try not to hang it. Don sneaks it out of the box and hangs it somewhere and waits for me to notice. I'll move it to the back of the tree. He'll move it to the front. And this is the type of people we are.
Frankenmuth - what a great name for a city: in German, Franconia is "Franken" ;D
I think it's great that the pickle thing has become a tradition in American families!
My grandfather lived in the States for a few years (Illinois), so maybe he'd have known the tradition - sadly, my grandparents are dead... will ask my mother and my uncle, though! |
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minnmess Posted Tue 15 Dec, 2009 6:50 PM |
| Ive never heard of this, but Pickle has pickle ornements on his little 1ft tree that I made. There used to be a pickle tree topper with his name on it, but it went missing last year. It was made with green glitter glue that exploded in my face one Christmas Eve. |
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Turtleneck Posted Tue 15 Dec, 2009 7:05 PM |
thewishlist wrote: Turtleneck wrote: *blushes* we have a pickle ornament. We bought it at Frankenmuth, Michigan. Each year, we let a different child hang it up and let the other two try to find it. There is no reward other than being the winner.
But we have other made-up traditions, too. There is an ugly ornament that I don't like. I try not to hang it. Don sneaks it out of the box and hangs it somewhere and waits for me to notice. I'll move it to the back of the tree. He'll move it to the front. And this is the type of people we are.
Frankenmuth - what a great name for a city: in German, Franconia is "Franken" ;D
I think it's great that the pickle thing has become a tradition in American families!
My grandfather lived in the States for a few years (Illinois), so maybe he'd have known the tradition - sadly, my grandparents are dead... will ask my mother and my uncle, though!
The city was settled by German immigrants. It's now a touristy town with a big Bavarian Inn restaurant and what is supposed to be the world's largest Christmas store. In an embarrassing story, I lost 2 of my 3 children in this store a few years ago. I looked for about 2 minutes and then notified a worker. The whole place went into complete lockdown, announcements were made and my kids were back with me in just a few minutes. It happens so often that they developed a very efficient system to deal with it. Each worker checks a specific section of the store assigned to them. Whew! I was so relieved and so embarrassed. I swear, we only turned around for a second and they took off to look at shiny Christmas things! |
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thewishlist Posted Tue 15 Dec, 2009 7:13 PM |
Turtleneck wrote:
The city was settled by German immigrants. It's now a touristy town with a big Bavarian Inn restaurant and what is supposed to be the world's largest Christmas store. In an embarrassing story, I lost 2 of my 3 children in this store a few years ago. I looked for about 2 minutes and then notified a worker. The whole place went into complete lockdown, announcements were made and my kids were back with me in just a few minutes. It happens so often that they developed a very efficient system to deal with it. Each worker checks a specific section of the store assigned to them. Whew! I was so relieved and so embarrassed. I swear, we only turned around for a second and they took off to look at shiny Christmas things!
ROFL, what a great system! They should put this in their ads, "we find your children within 5 minutes".
Actually, I think there was a short documentary on that shop on TV some days ago, is it "Bronner's"?
I will google the Bavarian Inn restaurant...
Edit: googled it. The Lodge actually looks like the new spa-hotels that have sprung up next to new golf-courses in rural Bavaria, those people did their research well ;D
The dinner menu has some grave mistakes when it comes to "Bavarian-ness", though ;P
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Turtleneck Posted Tue 15 Dec, 2009 7:49 PM |
thewishlist wrote:
ROFL, what a great system! They should put this in their ads, "we find your children within 5 minutes".
Actually, I think there was a short documentary on that shop on TV some days ago, is it "Bronner's"?
I will google the Bavarian Inn restaurant...
Edit: googled it. The Lodge actually looks like the new spa-hotels that have sprung up next to new golf-courses in rural Bavaria, those people did their research well ;D
The dinner menu has some grave mistakes when it comes to "Bavarian-ness", though ;P
Yes, it is Bronner's. It is quite the Christmas wonderland in there.
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Cynthia Posted Tue 15 Dec, 2009 9:06 PM |
thewishlist wrote: Cynthia wrote:
Love isn't strong enough a term - it's more of an addiction, an illness - I know I have too many (they don't all even fit on my tree) and yet I can't stop collecting them. I wish I could see the images you posted - maybe I just can't view them because I'm at work right now.
ahh, maybe it's not working for anyone... I'll try and change the links...
It worked fine for me just now from home. I'm a teacher and practically everything is filtered out at my school. In fact, for the life of me I haven't figured out how in the world Travisonline hasn't been blocked.
The last two are even Inge-glas, which makes up 99% of my collection!!!! Love the images! :) |
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