Nice, Barbara, realy nice.
Thor G.

Norwegian Documentation Center for Children's Culture in Stavanger
 
Thor G. Noraas,
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-----Original Message-----
From: The Children's Folklore Mailing List
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Barbara Boock
Sent: 19. februar 2004 13:24
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: (Fwd) FW: sex-bracelets

Reminds me of a line in a song: "Hey, teacher, leave us kids alone...." 
Pink Floyd, the Wall. yours Barbara
At 13:13 19.02.2004 +0100, you wrote:
>Dear Julia,
>You are right; it is the friendship bracelets that have been linked to
>the old code systems. In my time to blow out a girls match when she was
>lighting a fag, meant "I love you". Tikling her halm with one finger
>when holding hands in the darkness of a cinema. Meant I want to sleep
>with you. Etc. The thing that’s all over the news in Norway today is
>that a principal in a children school in Sotra (West Coast of Norway)
>and Ammerud School in Oslo have panicked and sendt letters to parents
to
>remove the bracelets from the kid's hands. As if that would solve
>anything. As a matter of fact, I'm more interested in finding out whats
>ticking in a principal's head than whats "wrong" with the children. Are
>we looking for monster-children again in the school yards?
>Just asking...
>Thor G
>
>Norwegian Documentation Center for Children's Culture in Stavanger
>
>Thor G. Noraas,
>  - administrator
>
>Mail: Box 4031 Tasta
>N-4092 Stavanger
>Norway
>
>E-Mail: [log in to unmask]
>
>Phone: 90 82 57 06
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: The Children's Folklore Mailing List
>[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Julia C.Bishop
>Sent: 19. februar 2004 12:24
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: (Fwd) FW: sex-bracelets
>
>Hi everyone,
>
>I think this correspondence has come to me as listowner only, and
>not the whole list.  I'm happy to forward it tho.  I can add that so
far
>I myself have not picked up on the delightfully named 'shagging
>bands', although they seem to me to be a logical follow-on from the
>friendship bracelet.
>
>Best,
>Julia
>------- Forwarded message follows -------
>From:                   "Thor G. Norås"
<[log in to unmask]>
>To:                     <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject:                FW: sex-bracelets
>Date sent:              Thu, 19 Feb 2004 12:11:28 +0100
>
>I assume this concerns all of you so I’m forwarding it to the list.
>
>The codes are:
>
>White: Friendship
>Green: Give a flower
>Yellow: A hug
>Pink: Kiss
>Oransje: Making out
>Red: Strip/lapdance
>Blue: Oralsex
>Black: Sex.
>
>If a boy rips off a black bracelet from a girls wrist the girl has to
>agree to have sex with him.
>
>I doubt if a 10 years old girl will actual do that, but this is what
the
>row is about. Reporters seems not to understand that this is a game,
not
>behaviour of sexfixated monster children.
>
>Any more information on the matter of sex bracelets or shagging bands?
>
>Thor G.
>
>
>Norwegian Documentation Center for Children's Culture in Stavanger
>
>Thor G. Noraas,
>  - administrator
>
>Mail: Box 4031 Tasta
>N-4092 Stavanger
>Norway
>
>E-Mail:  <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
>[log in to unmask]
>
>Phone: 90 82 57 06
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Thor G. Norås [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>Sent: 19. februar 2004 11:04
>To: 'Linda Pickering'
>Subject: RE: sex-bracelets
>
>Thank you, Linda.
>They are called the same in Norway. Pule is equal to shagg. The
>Norwegian word is actualy Latin, it’s an abriviation of the word
>copulare, to strech a band between a male and a femal (in order for the
>reproduction to occur).
>
>Please keep me notified if there is any reactions either in news-media
>or in environment. I would like to know if or when there is a banning
of
>the wearing.
>
>All the best.
>
>Norwegian Documentation Center for Children's Culture in Stavanger
>
>Thor G. Noraas,
>  - administrator
>
>Mail: Box 4031 Tasta
>N-4092 Stavanger
>Norway
>
>E-Mail:  <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
>[log in to unmask]
>
>Phone: 90 82 57 06
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Linda Pickering [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>Sent: 19. februar 2004 10:51
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: sex-bracelets
>
>Hi, i believe that this has been happening in England also, i am
>reliably informed that the young people in the North East of England
>call them "shagging bands". Shagging being a coloquial word for sex.
>Yet i am a youth leader and have not come across it with my own youth
>group.
>regards Linda Pickering
>
>e.mail:[log in to unmask]
>
>------- End of forwarded message -------
>
>
>Julia C. Bishop (Dr)
>National Centre for English Cultural Tradition
>University of Sheffield
>Sheffield  S10 2TN
>U.K.
>
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