chunkolini
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Many many years ago Grandpa Chunk' was made a member of the League of Bladder Walkers, a very noble tradition going back centuries.
It started with salmon poachers on the wye, they would use pig bladders to float their nets, then if a baillif was spotted they would pop the bladders with a cigarette sinking them and concealing the net.
This practice adapted over the years to burning them at the end of the season, ensuring no baillifs and good luck for the next season.
Over the years this changed and it became ritualised, the bladders being paraded around the parish boundaries and burned by the Bladder masters on an open fire, with a Hearty shout of 'Lower Bladders', the ritual being titled bladder walking.
Grandpa Chunk' then initiated me into the art and I became an assistant, eventually when he croaked becoming a Bladder Master myself.
Here is a short film of Bladder walking.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPKcwtUxi3Q
It is not only americans who act weird, see anvil shooting.
Chunko'.
It started with salmon poachers on the wye, they would use pig bladders to float their nets, then if a baillif was spotted they would pop the bladders with a cigarette sinking them and concealing the net.
This practice adapted over the years to burning them at the end of the season, ensuring no baillifs and good luck for the next season.
Over the years this changed and it became ritualised, the bladders being paraded around the parish boundaries and burned by the Bladder masters on an open fire, with a Hearty shout of 'Lower Bladders', the ritual being titled bladder walking.
Grandpa Chunk' then initiated me into the art and I became an assistant, eventually when he croaked becoming a Bladder Master myself.
Here is a short film of Bladder walking.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPKcwtUxi3Q
It is not only americans who act weird, see anvil shooting.
Chunko'.
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