I'd like to propose a new MeFi holiday tradition

October 24, 2013 1:08 PM

Tired of the treacly sweet bonhomie of the upcoming xmas season? Then it's time for Takanakuy! It's a festival from the Peruvian highlands designed to work out the past year's differences with a little sockety-boom! And Takanakuy isn't just for the menfolk anymore. Women are just as eligible. Even kids can get into the act! Just watch out for the refs with the whips, they are not afraid to use them. Here's Vice's take on the whole megillah. With plenty of drinking before and after to sooth smushed mushes, I can see this soon becoming a long-standing MeFi tradition! No more long, drawn out MeTas, just a couple of shots and a couple of pokes to the kisser, ending with a hug and more booze. All is settled. Until next xmas!
posted by Purposeful Grimace (11 comments total)

Is this like a combination of the Airing of Grievances and the Feats of Strength?
posted by edheil at 1:18 PM on October 24, 2013 [4 favorites]

With plenty of drinking before and after

Surprise, surprise.
posted by Greg_Ace at 1:38 PM on October 24, 2013 [1 favorite]

Would we implement this by creating a metatalk callout storm?
posted by jeffburdges at 1:56 PM on October 24, 2013

I love this idea. Before I finished PG's description I already had my list and the order in which I wanted to take them on. Amazingly some of them aren't even clients.
posted by Blue Meanie at 1:59 PM on October 24, 2013

So soon after Donnybrook Fair? People've barely just cleaned their shillelaghs.
posted by perhapsolutely at 2:06 PM on October 24, 2013

The name sounded like something given to this year's one-time-only convergence of Thanksgiving and Hanukkah. Which would suggest a perfect time to do it...
posted by oneswellfoop at 2:17 PM on October 24, 2013

No, first we implement it, then comes the callout storm, because cultural appropriation.
posted by Wordwoman at 2:56 PM on October 24, 2013 [1 favorite]

I meant separate callouts for each mefi, so a storm of callouts, not a single callout with a storm of comments.
posted by jeffburdges at 4:08 PM on October 24, 2013

Wow...this was posted over 3 hours ago, and still not one suggestion for calling it the Great Outdoor Fight? Shocked - shocked, I am.
posted by Greg_Ace at 4:32 PM on October 24, 2013

I'll go get the aluminum pole!
posted by briank at 4:57 PM on October 24, 2013

We wish you a Merry Whoop-ass,
We wish you a Merry Whoop-ass.
We wish you a Merry Whoop-ass,
And a sock in the ear!
posted by BlueHorse at 8:42 PM on October 24, 2013 [3 favorites]