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Saturday, December 04, 2004
INN GOD WE TRUST
A British hotel chain is offering couples called Mary and Joseph a free night’s stay over Christmas to “make up for the hotel industry not having any rooms left on Christmas Eve 2004 years ago” (you can hardly blame innkeepers – how were they to know that it was Christmas Eve?)
Sounds great but I shudder to think how they’re going to commemorate Easter.
Looking forward to my cousin’s wedding next week – the tradition around these parts is for the groom’s family to take/steal something from the bride’s house prior to the wedding (not just the bride – as if that wasn’t enough!).
I bags the DVD player!
I’ve got five days to find a truck.
Nobody seems to know how this tradition started but I suspect that some in-laws got caught stealing something from their future in-laws house and managed to convince them that it was a tradition and it just caught on from there.
It’s also tradition that the groom’s entire family go and get the bride on the day of the wedding.
My question is, how sure are things when it takes your entire family to persuade her?
Research shows that married people tend to live longer but what married person would want to live longer?
8:15 pm
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