Stag Night Pranks
I promised to tell you who invented the stag night prank, although I'm suprprised you've not figured it out yourself.
It was werewolves. It's obvious, in retrospect, ain't it?
When you wake up naked miles from home you've got to justify yourself to curious people. At some point, a few hundred years ago, some werewolf hit on the story that it was a cruel prank played on him by friends, and would you be good enough to loan him a shirt? This wasn't that convincing, mind you, as it's a pretty extreme kind of prank, and people more often than not assumed that it was revenge for some unpleasantness he'd been guilty of, so it didn't really fit the bill, not quite.
So the story was modified to the effect that in his village (the name of which he dare not devulge out of fear of further and harsher pranking) had a tradition of doing this to men who were about to be married. The once-in-a-lifetime prank story held more water, and he used it whenever he had to, moving around and sometimes sharing the story with others of his kind if met under friendly circumstances.
He's long dead of course, but it's nice to think he was commemorated in a weird way when humans continued the meme for real, not realising its origins as a lycanthropic blag.
I don't know for sure if the name "Stag Night" is related, but I'm sure you can guess the way my thinking goes on that.
Anyway, hopefully last weekends events should now make a little more sense. See you at the wedding.
Dad.
It was werewolves. It's obvious, in retrospect, ain't it?
When you wake up naked miles from home you've got to justify yourself to curious people. At some point, a few hundred years ago, some werewolf hit on the story that it was a cruel prank played on him by friends, and would you be good enough to loan him a shirt? This wasn't that convincing, mind you, as it's a pretty extreme kind of prank, and people more often than not assumed that it was revenge for some unpleasantness he'd been guilty of, so it didn't really fit the bill, not quite.
So the story was modified to the effect that in his village (the name of which he dare not devulge out of fear of further and harsher pranking) had a tradition of doing this to men who were about to be married. The once-in-a-lifetime prank story held more water, and he used it whenever he had to, moving around and sometimes sharing the story with others of his kind if met under friendly circumstances.
He's long dead of course, but it's nice to think he was commemorated in a weird way when humans continued the meme for real, not realising its origins as a lycanthropic blag.
I don't know for sure if the name "Stag Night" is related, but I'm sure you can guess the way my thinking goes on that.
Anyway, hopefully last weekends events should now make a little more sense. See you at the wedding.
Dad.