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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter_Monday#Dyngus_Day">Happy Dyngus Day!</a> Like St. Patrick's Day for the <a href="http://www.dyngusdaybuffalo.com/">Polish.</a>post:www.metafilter.com,2011:site.102866Mon, 25 Apr 2011 08:37:14 -0800ridiculousholidaysdyngusspringbuffalopolishBy: Ahab
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And to you too. Would it be rude of me to add a little context via the google translate of the Polish Wiki page for <a href="http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fpl.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F%25C5%259Amigus-dyngus">śmigus-dyngus</a>?comment:www.metafilter.com,2011:site.102866-3655488Mon, 25 Apr 2011 08:51:20 -0800AhabBy: Horace Rumpole
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I'll be celebrating <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065642/">the way I do</a> every year.comment:www.metafilter.com,2011:site.102866-3655492Mon, 25 Apr 2011 08:53:18 -0800Horace RumpoleBy: DU
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<i>śmigus-dyngus</i>
oh come ONcomment:www.metafilter.com,2011:site.102866-3655499Mon, 25 Apr 2011 08:58:07 -0800DUBy: tommasz
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My parents, both of whom were born in the US, shielded me from Dyngus Day and most other Polish traditions. I'm not sure why, especially considering how involved in NYC Polish culture my mother's family was. I feel deprived.comment:www.metafilter.com,2011:site.102866-3655512Mon, 25 Apr 2011 09:04:13 -0800tommaszBy: ROU_Xenophobe
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Dammit, the one day I left my willow switches at home.comment:www.metafilter.com,2011:site.102866-3655514Mon, 25 Apr 2011 09:05:53 -0800ROU_XenophobeBy: bitter-girl.com
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The first time I ever went to Prague in 1993 (I ended up moving there a few years later), I experienced the Czech version of this, as it was Easter weekend. Braided whips everywhere! woohoo!comment:www.metafilter.com,2011:site.102866-3655515Mon, 25 Apr 2011 09:06:16 -0800bitter-girl.comBy: ridiculous
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tommasz- I wouldn't feel too bad, I know plenty of very Polish-American people who have never heard of or participated in Dyngus Day, even as close to Buffalo as Rochester it's relatively unknown.comment:www.metafilter.com,2011:site.102866-3655516Mon, 25 Apr 2011 09:06:21 -0800ridiculousBy: zamboni
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<i>A boy would sneak into the bedroom of the girl he fancied and awaken her by drenching her with multiple buckets of water. Politics played an important role in proceedings, and often the boy would get access to the house only by arrangement with the girl's mother.
Throughout the day, girls would find themselves the victims of drenchings and leg-whippings, and a daughter who was not targeted for such activities was generally considered to be unattractive and unmarryable in this very coupling-oriented environment.</i>
Dang. Courting in historical Poland was stone-cold creepy.comment:www.metafilter.com,2011:site.102866-3655518Mon, 25 Apr 2011 09:06:26 -0800zamboniBy: dry white toast
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Im off today for Easter Monday and had been feeling (sorta) bad about all my friends having to work. But now I can be celebrating my heritage (mom born in Poland) guilt free! Brilliant.
Oh, and my wife is taking a nap so I can still pour a bucket of water on her head and whack her legs to be properly observant. Everything's coming up dry white toast.
*runs off to find switch*comment:www.metafilter.com,2011:site.102866-3655521Mon, 25 Apr 2011 09:07:42 -0800dry white toastBy: wenestvedt
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What about some loev for faux-Finn <a href="http://www.sainturho.com/origin.htm">St. Urho</a> last month?comment:www.metafilter.com,2011:site.102866-3655569Mon, 25 Apr 2011 09:39:09 -0800wenestvedtBy: MCMikeNamara
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<a href="http://www.metafilter.com/102866/Get-your-pussy-willows-and-squirt-guns-ready#3655518">zamboni</a>: "<i> Dang. Courting in historical Poland was stone-cold creepy.</i>"
Worse -- I just imagined some lonely girl dousing herself with water and whipping her own legs. Dyngus Day is depressing.comment:www.metafilter.com,2011:site.102866-3655669Mon, 25 Apr 2011 10:28:44 -0800MCMikeNamaraBy: Calzephyr
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<i>My parents, both of whom were born in the US, shielded me from Dyngus Day and most other Polish traditions. I'm not sure why, especially considering how involved in NYC Polish culture my mother's family was. I feel deprived.</i>
My mother's side of the family is Polish and emigrated to Canada before 1902. Barely any traditions survived over the generations beyond perogies and sausages, sad to say! Polish culture has a wide history of being suppressed in North America as well as post-World War 2 Poland. I imagine some of these traditions might seem downright strange to non-Polish people. Maybe that is why they kept it from you? I had no idea about this tradition either - thanks for the FPP ridiculous!comment:www.metafilter.com,2011:site.102866-3655700Mon, 25 Apr 2011 10:35:21 -0800CalzephyrBy: cyndigo
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For some reason, this was big in South Bend, Indiana. By "big," I mean lots of people took off work at lunch, went to a dive bar, drank beer and ate boiled eggs and sausages.
Never heard of it anywhere else.comment:www.metafilter.com,2011:site.102866-3655714Mon, 25 Apr 2011 10:38:50 -0800cyndigoBy: Seekerofsplendor
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Time to rustle up some pierogies and kielbasa and a sixpack. Oh no, wait, that was yesterday.comment:www.metafilter.com,2011:site.102866-3655740Mon, 25 Apr 2011 10:44:44 -0800SeekerofsplendorBy: Eideteker
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I just won major points from my Polish girlfriend for know about this. Thanks, MeFi!comment:www.metafilter.com,2011:site.102866-3655910Mon, 25 Apr 2011 12:03:27 -0800EidetekerBy: battleshipkropotkin
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You know... for kids!comment:www.metafilter.com,2011:site.102866-3655941Mon, 25 Apr 2011 12:20:23 -0800battleshipkropotkinBy: pracowity
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I think a lot of girls in Poland (I don't know about Buffalo girls; maybe they just go round the outside) would say fuck Dyngus Day if they had a choice. Once a year, they can't go out without worrying about running into gangs of smirky prepubescent boys roaming the streets ready to throw buckets of cold water on them.comment:www.metafilter.com,2011:site.102866-3656013Mon, 25 Apr 2011 13:07:39 -0800pracowityBy: Eyebrows McGee
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I came in to mention its strange bigness in South Bend, Indiana, which also involves the boys on the college campuses taking part in the "pitching of buckets of water on girls." Super Soakers also acceptable.
It's "like St. Patrick's Day" but COLDER AND WAY FUCKING WETTER. If St. Patrick's Day is the day Jesus wants you to drink, Dyngus Day is the day Jesus wants you to have involuntary wet T-shirt contests on the quad, apparently.comment:www.metafilter.com,2011:site.102866-3656087Mon, 25 Apr 2011 13:48:59 -0800Eyebrows McGeeBy: munchingzombie
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I lived in Buffalo for several years and found Dyngus day to be bizarre.
It takes place in the old Polish neighborhood, which was very working class 50 years agol. Now it is almost entirely black and poor. On Dyngus day this black neighborhood is filled, and I mean absolutely filled, with white folks from the suburbs getting drunk and throwing up, trashing the place. I am surprised race riots don't break out when the white people come to fuck up the black neighborhood.
Buffalo is the <a href="http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2011/03/29/most_segregated_cities/slideshow.html">6th most segregated</a> city in the country. On St. Pats the white folks have their parade in their part of town. For <a href="http://www.juneteenthofbuffalo.com/">Juneteenth</a> the black folks have their parade in their part of town. But Dyngus day the whites go into the black neighborhoods to celebrate its whiteness, it feels like.
That said, I am available for pussy willow whipping.comment:www.metafilter.com,2011:site.102866-3656096Mon, 25 Apr 2011 13:52:17 -0800munchingzombieBy: mdonley
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I'm actually in Poland, and got squirted with some water guns today! Fun. Local kids freaked out when I wished them a "Happy Dingus Day!" in English. :)comment:www.metafilter.com,2011:site.102866-3656309Mon, 25 Apr 2011 16:03:29 -0800mdonleyBy: EmpressCallipygos
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My father's part Polish, but never really knew much about Polish culture (he only re-discovered his roots when the Pawelizcz family moved in next door and Mr. P started drafting Dad into his pierogi-making binges once a year and serving krupnik at parties).
And that's a shame, because I think if Dad knew there was a Polish holiday that let let him say "Dingus" to everyone all day, he'd be <em>all over that.</em>comment:www.metafilter.com,2011:site.102866-3657630Tue, 26 Apr 2011 09:24:40 -0800EmpressCallipygosBy: EmpressCallipygos
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....Upon reflection, I think Dad getting into the name "Dingus" is precisely why I should <em>not</em> tell him about this after all.comment:www.metafilter.com,2011:site.102866-3657634Tue, 26 Apr 2011 09:25:27 -0800EmpressCallipygos
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