I thought that was an urban legend.
It may be for cultures that used family names, but until 100 years ago in most of Scandinavia, common people did not have family names but followed the tradition still used in Iceland where men have the name Firstname Fathersfirstnameson and women have the name Firstname Fathersfirstnamedottir. Usually people were known by these two names and the name of the farm or village where they were born. So what happened at Ellis Island was that the immigrant generation name for the men was frozen in time (Svenson) and assigned to their wives and children, or people chose the name of the farm or village where they were born (Stordal). A few people chose the name of someone famous or the name of the local gentry back home. But they had to choose something.
Yay for shrift giving notice, and we should totally have a party. I'll bring the dip.
David, your employees suck major ass, and you are being a much better person about this than you need to be.
Raisins do not belong in other foods*. They should be eaten alone, or thrown away.
I prefer to think of it as:
"I hereby release my finding-a-loyal-and-loving-partner-ma into the wild, with a side of throwing-a-kickass-party-with-cake-ma!"
"Hooray!!!!"
Re-defining traditions is great. Like so many others (particularly with weddings), its the original notion that seems icky to me now.
toss bouquet which was a bunch of little flower bundles tied with a ribbon so when you throw they go everywhere.
My florist friend called those cluster bomb bouquets.
They should be eaten alone, or thrown away.
Dibs on Perkins' raisins.
But not at Ellis Island: there was no "name choosing" there.
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I don't know if this has been linked before:
The IKEA game: [link]
I never had any idea that the bouquet was linked to virginity. One lives, one learns.
I was wondering whether or not to post that as well.
ETA: re: Ellis Island!
Heh. I was totally sure it was about the quickies too.
There should be no chocolate chips in muffins, bagels or bread.
I disagree. When one is making making chocolate bread, one should include chocolate chunks.
