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Old 11-14-2007, 07:28 PM   #16
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UT - have you considered using ISO 8601 standard date format (YYYY-MM-DD)?

November 15, 2007 -> 2007-11-15

This allows you to sort by date easier.

Here's a link where the date format is discussed.
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Old 11-14-2007, 08:59 PM   #17
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I believe in that standard, and I use it often, but here the date used in a more human way, the way one actually consumes months and days.

People are not sort-friendly, nor should they ever be.
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Old 11-14-2007, 10:18 PM   #18
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Okay, so the Wikipedia explains *what* the caganer is, but...*why* is this character present? Is it just for a little added humor, or is there some more serious shit involved?
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Old 11-15-2007, 12:16 AM   #19
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Elspode, it's something to do with bringing the family/village good fortune; bringing fertility to the land in the coming year, and therefore good crops etc. Maybe it has a pagan history to it, and got integrated into the Christian festival. I'm pretty sure some of our more common Xmas rituals are pagan leftovers too, although I can't remember which.

I also found this lovely article from BoingBoing about related pooey Catalan Christmas traditions.
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Old 11-15-2007, 02:08 AM   #20
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... and the angels s---ing ...

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Old 11-15-2007, 07:52 AM   #21
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... the way one actually consumes months and days...
Interesting concept. I never considered it tht way....
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Old 11-15-2007, 10:44 AM   #22
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I'm pretty sure some of our more common Xmas rituals are pagan leftovers too, although I can't remember which.
Pretty much all of them! Bunnies and eggs, holly and mistletoe, full moons and equinoxes and solstices .... go figure.

Ohh another Ostray-yun. Gedday mate. Crikey, three Victorians eh?
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Old 11-18-2007, 01:16 PM   #23
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Same shit, different Christmas
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Old 11-23-2007, 12:20 AM   #24
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Okay, so the Wikipedia explains *what* the caganer is, but...*why* is this character present? Is it just for a little added humor, or is there some more serious shit involved?
In a month you too will wish that you could just take a shit and be done w/Xmas.
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Mud figures, of President George W. Bush, France's President Nicolas Sarkozy (C) and Spain's Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, known as "caganer" (defecator in Catalan language) are sold at the Santa Llucia Christmas market in central Barcelona December 4, 2007. Catalans create Christmas Nativity scenes using models and hide the figures, known as "caganer" or defecator in Catalan, in them before inviting friends to find the figures. Catalans believe the "caganer", by creating faeces, fertilises the earth and brings prosperity and luck for the coming year.
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