*All numbers were chosen using this site.*
Holly Dolly gets the chocolate bar (oooh the unplanned but incredibly scrumptious irony of this - see this post if you don’t know why). Holly, let me know if you like white, milk or dark, nuts, no nuts, fruity or not fruity, etc. And for the love of Bob woman, put a search function on your blog! I couldn’t even locate the first choco-nots/frenemies post, I just had to Google the phrase and wing it.
Ella gets the stropke. For those of you who don’t know, back in the 1500’s when Gent was under the rule of Charles V, the citizens refused to pay war taxes. As a punishment for their refusal, they were hung. Those who refused to pay the taxes, therefore, wore a noose-like rope around their neck. This knot, ‘t stropke (little necktie, is the translation, I believe), is now the symbol of the town. If I’m wrong in any of this I’m sure my Flemish readers will correct me in the comment section.
Marie gets the Amazon gift card for 30 USD which is good cause after I said that the gift card would be in USD I realized that I had no clue how much that was at this point in Canadian dollars, pounds or even euros, so it worked out well that it went to someone in the US.
I’ll be contacting everyone for shipping info this evening.
To all of those who commented and didn’t get picked, thank you for taking the time to read back through my archives. Fizzy and Jenn, you know I’m always looking for reasons to send more chocolate and Carrie, register somewhere already! I’m all ready to wedding shop and I have nowhere to do it yet!
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12:28 pm
1:15 pm
About Stropke: the citizens were not hung by Charles V. But the city lost the privilege to have walls (pretty important in those times) => hence no more traces of city walls in Ghent unlike most other cities! Check it out if you walk around.
Secondly a group of important rich citizens had to go through the humiliation of walking barefooted through the city in a white shirt with the rope around their neck, held by the person behind them. They were not hung though. Afterwards the citizens of Ghent were nicknamed “stroppendragers” (=those who wear a hangman’s rope). They started to use this name with pride and the hangman’s rope became their symbol.
During the Gentse Feesten (the best city festival in the world….3rd week of July, Ghent is the place to be!!!!!!), they always have this parade. The ’stroppendragers’ parade is a fairly parade starting at the fortress ‘t Gravensteen with a dozen citizens marching barefooted in a white gown and a hangman’s rope around their neck…accompagnied with a solemn drumroll.
During the festival , a lot of citizens will be wearing a “stropke” themselves.
2:25 pm
I’m working on it…..:)
5:24 pm
congrats to the winners!! /me waits for the next chocolate contest
is the tooth feeling 100% cured now? How much is left on the house before renovations are done? And why don’t you have a sink in the bathroom? Is that normal or due to renovations?
/me snickers and remembers the night you couldn’t think of anything to blog about and now I can just fill your message box with things
PS update the gnome travels???? the name??? etc….
6:32 pm
Yay! Can’t wait.
7:36 pm
Yay!
Did you get my email yesterday - there was some funny business with my gmail not wanting to send to you…
I can’t wait for my hangman’s noose! I’ll have to figure out where to erm… hang…. it. (maybe in the bar!)
7:38 pm
Also, I might do this type of contest for my 300th post (which is coming up with frightening speed)
10:42 pm
i object to holly winning anything. did you see how much blog stuff she got from her trip? she doesn’t need more.
11:20 pm
There was a contest and presents and I missed it? DAMN REAL LIFE!
12:20 am
hey now! i totally am in favour of holly winning stuff. she totally totally needs more. and i am within 3.5 pounds of goal, people! i can almost eat chocolate!!! lilacspecs, yours will be the first chocolate bar i eat in this, the year of our lord, 2008! ha HA!
scarlet : i am going to make a contest specifically rigged for you to win. although i think you got a really ugly scarf not long ago, yes?
12:21 am
did i say rigged? i meant with a high probability of scarlet winning. . .