STOCKHOLM, Sweden - For 40 years it has been torched, vandalized, had its legs cut off and even been run over by a car. But officials in the Swedish city of Gavle are guaranteeing that this year's giant straw Christmas goat - the victim of Sweden's most violent yule tradition - will survive unscathed.
I can't pick the funniest part of this article. It's all funny.
I do have to wonder what the good people of Gavle have against a 43-foot tall straw goat, however.
I've been following this thing for the last three years, catching little articles which end with heart-wrenching quotes like "We were so close." and "Only two more days."
And each time I snicker a little bit, because after 40 years, don't you think setting the sucker on fire IS the tradition?
The picture I saw this year also haa a giant pointy fence around it.
Another article: http://www.thelocal.se/5694/20061204/ "It's not possible. We have made tests using petrol, oil, everything. It's not possible to burn the goat," said Lorensson. Those sound like the words of a man throwing down the gauntlet.
Sort of related news from Gävle Bus runs amok in Gävle http://www.thelocal.se/5554/20061120/ "...An alert bus driver in Gävle, central Sweden, was commended on Sunday after his bus started spontaneously and ran amok around the town centre..." I swear to god I immediately thought the bus was trying to run over the goat.
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Date: 2006-12-04 04:04 pm (UTC)I can't pick the funniest part of this article. It's all funny.
I do have to wonder what the good people of Gavle have against a 43-foot tall straw goat, however.
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Date: 2006-12-04 04:11 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-12-04 04:57 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-12-04 05:14 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-12-04 07:51 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-12-04 09:27 pm (UTC)I've been following this thing for the last three years, catching little articles which end with heart-wrenching quotes like "We were so close." and "Only two more days."
And each time I snicker a little bit, because after 40 years, don't you think setting the sucker on fire IS the tradition?
The picture I saw this year also haa a giant pointy fence around it.
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Date: 2006-12-05 01:06 pm (UTC)http://www.thelocal.se/5694/20061204/
"It's not possible. We have made tests using petrol, oil, everything. It's not possible to burn the goat," said Lorensson.
Those sound like the words of a man throwing down the gauntlet.
Sort of related news from Gävle
Bus runs amok in Gävle http://www.thelocal.se/5554/20061120/
"...An alert bus driver in Gävle, central Sweden, was commended on Sunday after his bus started spontaneously and ran amok around the town centre..."
I swear to god I immediately thought the bus was trying to run over the goat.
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Date: 2006-12-05 01:59 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-12-05 02:02 pm (UTC)Thermite.
Nothing is impossible, with thermite.