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December 08, 2008
Danish Christmas Lunch(-es)
Thomas Kennedy has written about the peculiar occurrence that is the Danish Christmas lunch. I will be attending no such lunch this year, as I claim no affiliation to any of the institutions, organizations or companies which are the typical instigators of such an event.
But a Danish Xmas lunch is far from only an office party, though that too is one of the masks it dons. And a piquant mask it is – an opportunity for men and women who have been appreciatively and more or less obliquely eyeing one another all year to let loose for half a day and half a night and partake of the original Roman Bacchanal that was the pagan antecedent of the birth of Christ: eat to excess, drink to excess, hold speeches fraught with erotic double entendre, tell lewd jokes in mixed company, sing parodies of endeared sweet Xmas songs
Posted by daen at December 8, 2008 03:09 PM
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