Home for the Holidays
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jack_babalon
Leave no child behind!
Thanksgiving's just not Thanksgiving at the Babalon's without the traditional beating of a local child by masked ninjas before we commence to eating.
This is a family ritual that goes all the way back to when the first Babalon stepped off the boat from ItaloGermanistan onto Ellis Island. Gunther Babalon quickly discovered that upon arrival, as was the tradition in New York in the 1890's, he had to be 'jumped in' by a pair of masked Irishmen (known then as "The Irishing of the New Fish").
Over the years the tradition changed with the times so that we now celebrate Thanksgiving by dressing up as ninjas and jumping a random child. Is it illegal? Yes. Is it morally reprehensible? Without a doubt. Will I be dressed as a ninja with a pair of nu-chucks waiting in the bushes of a playground tomorrow? Hell yeah!
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on 2007-11-21 05:41 pm (UTC)no subject
on 2007-11-21 05:54 pm (UTC)Have a great T-day yourself!
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on 2007-11-21 05:53 pm (UTC)no subject
on 2007-11-21 06:17 pm (UTC)O_o
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on 2007-11-22 02:15 am (UTC)no subject
on 2007-11-22 05:47 am (UTC)