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	daylightsparks 2007-09-08 07:24 pm UTC (link)
	Man, Catalan culture is weird. They've also got that whole thing with the Christmas poo. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	atalantapendrag 2007-09-08 07:30 pm UTC (link)
	... WHAT (Reply to this)(Parent)

	magnolia_mama 2007-09-08 07:38 pm UTC (link)
	I love how that Wiki page says at the bottom, "See also: Mr. Hankey." (Reply to this)(Parent)

	vzg 2007-09-08 07:41 pm UTC (link)
	...I don't think I could even picture a stranger tradition. It was all good at first, with the face and the blanket and the feeding, but then they beat it with stick and order it to shit something edible? :[ (Reply to this)(Parent)

	trisandrockets 2007-09-08 07:47 pm UTC (link)
	The pooping figurines! Oh, how I love those. I have a pooping Ronaldinho and a pooping garden gnome from a trip to Barcelona. They're very weird, I have to say. Although we should have bought the pooping Castro when we had a chance... (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	daylightsparks 2007-09-08 08:05 pm UTC (link)
	Pretty soon that pooping Castro will be a collector's item! (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	trisandrockets 2007-09-08 09:03 pm UTC (link)
	I hope those Irish boys that bought it enjoy it. Also, a quick glance at the Wikipedia shows that the figurines are completely different than the log. What is up with Catalans and poo? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	daylightsparks 2007-09-09 06:25 am UTC (link)
	Yeah, they have two different Christmas pooping traditions. o.O (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	trisandrockets 2007-09-09 07:29 am UTC (link)
	So weird! (Reply to this)(Parent)

	risha 2007-09-08 08:01 pm UTC (link)
	A+++ funniest tradition ever. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	doomsday 2007-09-08 08:58 pm UTC (link)
	Why has this not caught on in other parts of the world? I'm totally making one of those this year. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	billymasqets 2007-09-08 11:03 pm UTC (link)
	The song! My god, the song! (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	puipui 2007-09-09 12:56 am UTC (link)
	Shit, log, shit turrón, hazelnuts and cheese, if you don't shit well, I'll hit you with a stick. Shit, log! OMG I haven't laughed this hard in ages. I want one of those this Christmas! (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	lcsbanana 2007-09-09 08:12 am UTC (link)
	i keep coming back to reread this, and it KEEPS MAKING ME HAPPIER. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	queencallipygos 2007-09-10 06:08 pm UTC (link)
	There's another song where they ask it not to shit out anchovies or something similiarly unpalatable-to-kids. I keep on thinking "kids, it could be shitting out something MUCH worse, don't forget." (Reply to this)(Parent)

	frequentmouse 2007-09-08 11:47 pm UTC (link)
	This explains so very much about Dali and Gaudi. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	rogue 2007-09-09 09:55 am UTC (link)
	Maturin is so terribly on point in this wank! Huzzah! (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	daylightsparks 2007-09-09 02:17 pm UTC (link)
	I was hoping someone would catch that... ;) Patrick O'Brian was always down with the toilet humor - I'm surprised he never mentioned the pooping log. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	shakeandbake 2007-09-09 09:45 pm UTC (link)
	what the fuck did i just read (Reply to this)(Parent)

queencallipygos
2007-09-10 06:14 pm UTC (link)

I managed to work the Pooping Yule Log into my work once. Four or five times a year, I write up the "study guides" for a theater company in Pennsylvania; they're pamphlets about each of the shows they do, with about four or five articles about the history of the play itself, bios of the playwright, production history, and some articles about the play itself or its subject matter. They're given out to teachers who bring their classes in for field trips so the teachers can make a whole lesson plan out of it; people can also buy them in the lobby during intermission.

One year their Christmas show was about a "tween" girl who was too cool for Santa, but she was visited by this mysterious lady named "Mrs. Cohen" who was actually another embodiment of Santa and got her to Believe again yadda yadda yadda; there was a line Mrs. Cohen had about how different kids around the world called her different things. So I wrote an article about the several different alternative gift-bringers throughout the world (the Christ Child in some countries, the Three Kings in others...)

To this day, students in Scranton might still be reading about the Pooing Yule Log in class, and it's all because of me. *happy sigh*

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	redwarrior 2007-09-10 08:00 pm UTC (link)
	..I wonder if that's where Trey and Matt got Mr. Hankey from. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	princessjessia 2007-09-12 05:42 am UTC (link)
	I was really hoping someone would use a Maturin icon. :D But that entry, that tradition! I'm so at a loss whether to giggle or wtf. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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