By: hippybear
I was actually envisioning an animated saturday morning cartoon show a la Scooby Doo, but a period drama works for me too.
View ArticleBy: Mezentian
That would be less hilarious, but last night I had an encounter with Hart To Hart, and I am well down with this show if it can be a period drama set in the 1970s.
View ArticleBy: hippybear
Or maybe a couple of hot chicks, say a blonde and a brunette/redhead, who sing in a pop band and who can bring along their clever songwriting bandmate boyfriends. They all travel in a converted school...
View ArticleBy: Mezentian
And you know there's some grizzled cop somewhere in Sweden who gets this case a day before retirement, pouring over still photos of the goat-burning long into the night, staring pensively out the...
View ArticleBy: Marisa Stole the Precious Thing
2005 Burnt by unknown vandals reportedly dressed as Santa and a gingerbread man by shooting a flaming arrow at the goat at 21:00 on 3 December. And you know there's some grizzled cop somewhere in...
View ArticleBy: fshgrl
2005 Burnt by unknown vandals reportedly dressed as Santa and a gingerbread man by shooting a flaming arrow at the goat at 21:00 on 3 December. Not that I advocate arson, or think its funny or...
View ArticleBy: ovvl
Wikipedia History: 2006: 1976 Local hillbillies ran the goat over with a car. 2009: 1976 Local raggare ran the goat over with a car. 2012: 1976 Hit by a car.
View ArticleBy: SpecialK
From the wikipedia article: The design of the first goat was assigned to the then chief of the Gävle fire department, Gavlén's brother Jörgen Gavlén. The construction of the goat was carried out by the...
View ArticleBy: Jilder
The town is also famous this year for someone discovering that the church tower hatch has been left open for three decades, with undesirable consequences. If only the church were on an island, then...
View ArticleBy: Marisa Stole the Precious Thing
Iceland has brought this tradition over as well, with similar consequences. Last weekend, the goat in front of the IKEA in a small, upscale suburb of the capital was burned down, and security footage...
View ArticleBy: Iteki
The guys who burnt it on Christmas Day weren't as jerkish as you think, the swedes celebrate everything on the eve, so it was the day after Christmas for them.
View ArticleBy: frimble
I'd be interested to know whether Gävle has considered making the burning of the goat an event itself, on Epiphany or Hilarymas. A partial concession to what has become a tradition, but one where the...
View ArticleBy: Major Tom
In Gavle (as in the whole of Sweden) it's very difficult to buy alcohol, which is sold only in a few state sponsored shops. There may be a connection between that and the need to burn goats.
View ArticleBy: Skeptic
The town is also famous this year for someone discovering that the church tower hatch has been left open for three decades, with undesirable consequences. It all went to guano.
View ArticleBy: Mezentian
Metafilter: It is said that one night a couple made love inside the goat. Forgive me giant flaming goat, I have sinned again. Mad props to the "Again, the goat burnt down before it was assembled"...
View ArticleBy: Mister Fabulous
I enjoy how they've tried to make it fireproof several times, just to have it burned. They need to employ reverse psychology. I suggest making it out of very flammable materials such as nitrocellulose,...
View ArticleBy: RonButNotStupid
So what happened in 1973, 1975, 1977, 1981, 1990, 1993, 1994, 1996, 2006, and 2007? Did it survive?
View ArticleBy: three blind mice
I understand that there is now an iPhone App for this. Meh. Quadcopters and thermite.Previous attempts to sabotage it have included the bribing of security guards and a foiled helicopter heist."1966...
View ArticleBy: mykescipark
That kind of shit would not happen on the playa Except in 2007, of course. (RIP Paul Addis)
View ArticleBy: Mezentian
The town is also famous this year for someone discovering that the church tower hatch has been left open for three decades, with undesirable consequences. Man. That would be an awful mess to clean up....
View ArticleBy: hippybear
And this is where I'm forced to link to The Refreshment's song "The Billy Goat". You're welcome.
View ArticleThe arsonists who stare at goats
The festive season is approaching, so it's time for everyone's favorite giant Swedish straw caprid to suffer from repeated attacks. Already ("The front hoof smells of petrol") this year's goat at Gävle...
View ArticleBy: frimble
And, it would appear that the goat has burned. I got an IM at 03:00, saying "I see smoke" and now, at 06:00, there is little but a blackened wooden skeleton.
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