[pure-silver] Re: New Year Ideas for PA. members
- From: "Rob Champagne" <app@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 00:39:44 +0000
OK so I thought about it some more but it still seems very strange...
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"A Cumberland County community is joining the festivities this year.=
Mechanicsburg, Pa., will drop a wrench to usher in the new year."
so they want to join in with everyone else and have invented their own=
peculiar tradition. And I thought traditions became traditions by virtue=
of having been in existence for some considerable time.
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"Harrisburg, Pa., will return to its custom of dropping a giant strawberry=
this year. Last year, the city dropped a cow painted to look like a=
strawberry as part of a preview for Cow Parade Harrisburg."
I don't want to go there. Talking about painted cows has proven to be a=
touchy subject with some list members in the past.
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"Lancaster and York, Pa., are known as Red Rose City and White Rose City,=
respectively. In Lancaster, the city raises a red rose. York residents=
watch the drop of a white rose into a giant vase to announce the new year."
Now this one seems to have some links to the mother land and historical=
significance. I know you're all into history so look up the "war of the=
roses" in British History and you will find that the Lancastrians and Yorks=
started that war a long long time ago and they still hate each other today.=
What its got to do with new year I have no idea.
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"In Elizabethtown, Pa., a huge M&M will be lowered in Center Square at 7=
p.m. The town chose 7 p.m. to mark the new year in its sister city,=
Letterkenney, Ireland. Elizabethtown is home to an M&M Mars plant."
Hangers on I would say....
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"A summer tradition is revised in a different way in Falmouth, Pa., where=
the community lowers a stuffed goat. The town is known for its day of goat=
races in the summer."
Falmouth UK is in the county of Cornwall which is known as Kernow to the=
locals. Kernow is one of the seven Celtic nations. Living in the=
neighbouring county to Kernow, I personally can vouch for the fact that=
they have some very strange rituals down there and stuffing goats wouldn't=
surprise me in the least.
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"Manheim, Pa., will raise an orb."
Lacking Imagination?
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In York County, Dillsburg will lower a pickle.=20
no idea?
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Red Lion, Pa., which was once the cigar-manufacturing capital of the United=
States, will raise a cigar.
Also lacking Imagination?
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Middletown, Pa., will drop a ball
not worth mentioning
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Hummelstown, Pa., will drop a lollipop.
Duh!
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"Lebanon, Pa., will drop 7=BD-foot-long bologna (pictured, left) at=
midnight. The piece of meat weighs about 120 pounds and is the largest they=
have made for the drop so far. Also in Lebanon County, Cleona will continue=
the tradition it started last year and drop a pretzel from a tower at the=
Cleona fire station."
I suppose somebody had to do it! oops there's another one of those invented=
traditions which come into being before they've happened.
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"Shippensburg, Pa., will drop an anchor to welcome the new year"
lacking originality but I guess they would tell me to sling my hook if I=
said so.
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Newville, Pa., will drop a big spring.
Oh boing!
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New Bloomfield, Pa., will drop a huckleberry
whats a huckleberry?
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Duncannon, Pa., will drop a sled
Why?
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Blain, Pa., will drop a cow made of wood from a silo.=20
Bovine references seem very popular for some reason
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In Liverpool, Pa., the community will drop a canal boat.=20
They should invite Boris Johnson as a spectator...
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At 28/12/2004 13:42 -0500, you wrote:
>As a PA resident I have no clue what all of this means. I actually very
>near most of these locations. In our house we simply lift a pint of good
>brew in celebration of the new year and try hard not to drop anything.
>
>Happy New Year to all and may all be blessed with many wonderful
>photographs !!!
>
>
>Bill Earle
>www.wfephotography.com
>
>
>> I guess you have to live state side to understand this strange behaviour.
>> What does it all mean and why are some raising things whilst others are
>> dropping them?
>> On second thoughts I'm not sure I want to know.
>>
>> rob c
>>
>> At 28/12/2004 10:38 -0600, you wrote:
>>>Here is some events to shoot for all our PA. residents. }:^)>
>>>
>>>http://www.thedenverchannel.com/holidays/4026473/detail.html
>>>
>>>Yours tickled,
>>>
>>>Garry
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