New Years Traditions

December 31, 2006 · Filed Under Uncategorized 

Oh boy, it’s only 7:30pm and Rainer’s already made me watch Dinner For One twice (click the link to watch at your own peril). I totally don’t get this German New Years tradition. The show is played (in English) round the clock on one channel or another all day, and it’s not funny at all. It’s about a lonely, batty, rich old Brit who has no dinner guests so she has her butler drink all the toasts with her as if he were four guests. So the “humor” is that he gets steadily more drunk as the dinner progresses until he’s falling all over himself. Okay, Rainer’s complaining that I’m not being New Yearsy now, guess I gotta go back and watch another round. ARGH!

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4 Responses to “New Years Traditions”

  1. rita on January 2nd, 2007 1:48 am

    you linked to the swiss version. however, you’ll find that the german version (nearly twice as long) is infinitely more fun:

    http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=9105942950207814319

    sorry for the prolonged suffering. ;)

  2. christina on January 2nd, 2007 2:04 am

    Ahhhh, not Dinner for One! They used to make me watch it too until I went on strike.

    Happy New Year!

  3. vailian on January 3rd, 2007 12:03 am

    I don’t really appreciate it either, but my younger son could act out long portions of it (he was about 8) and it was very cute.

  4. Christina on January 3rd, 2007 8:04 pm

    @rita: Thanks for the link ;-)

    @christina: hmm… hadn’t thought of striking, I might have to try that next year.

    @vailian: awww… maybe I’ll be able to appreciate it a little in 8 years or so :)

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