From: [identity profile] mrissa.livejournal.com


I've been asked to do readings at some friends' wedding in March, and [livejournal.com profile] timprov immediately suggested that I should do the bit about Elisha and the bears.

Also, the crushing thing: the Saami people -- Lapp, but that's an ethnic slur -- geld their reindeers by crushing rather than cutting. It's to keep some glandular function as they grow so you get a bigger reindeer but not a full-fledged bull. Nowadays, by law, they do this with tongs, but there are laws on the books in most of the Scandinavian countries against doing it with one's teeth, because that was the old way. Seriously. Not kidding. Makes it pretty clear how you handle relatives you really, really don't like, doesn't it? "Okay, Uncle Paavo, I'll hold the reindeer, and you crawl under there and crush his testicles with your teeth. Heh heh heh. Either the reindeer kicks Uncle Paavo's head in or else he crawls back out again with his mouth tasting like reindeer balls for the rest of the week! I win either way!"

I try to keep my reindeer-herding knowledge under wraps, but sometimes it just springs forth without my full control.
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