Saturday, July 02, 2005
Interesting Factlet
In Azerbaijan, if your birthday it falls on a workday, you're responsible for buying the cake for the office celebration.
This is a really hard concept for us westerners to get our heads around.
Sorry for the silence lately. Nothing bloggable going on.
This is a really hard concept for us westerners to get our heads around.
Sorry for the silence lately. Nothing bloggable going on.
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Just out of curiosity, could you mention a little more about what you actually do - or what your organization does? I'm just always interested in hearing about the work that brings expats so far from home.
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-A.
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: 8:22 PM
: 8:22 PM
Really? In the UK it's standard practice to the person whose birthday it is to buy cakes for everyone else in the office.
I always wondered if the tradition came somehow from Tolkein's Lord of the Rings, where Bilbo Baggins buys everyone else presents on his eleventy-first birthday, but maybe Tolkein picked up the tradition from other cultures...?
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I always wondered if the tradition came somehow from Tolkein's Lord of the Rings, where Bilbo Baggins buys everyone else presents on his eleventy-first birthday, but maybe Tolkein picked up the tradition from other cultures...?
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