What ritual could be used to dub one a Seattleite?

Hey Seattle,

In the play Come from Away, there’s a song where the locals offer to make their visitors honorary Newfoundlanders by making them drink terrible alcohol and kiss a freshly caught cod.

This got me thinking: what kind of silly ritual could be used to dub someone an honorary Seattleite?

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phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 12 pts · 160d

Eating a bag of Dick's?

IamSparticles@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 160d (1 reply)

Eat a teriyaki chicken take-out meal on a clear day while loudly proclaiming that "The mountain is out!"

Drusas@fedia.io · 2 pts · 158d

As someone who grew up with real teriyaki from Japan (yes, I know that the story is "real teriyaki" is from here, but the Japanese style of making it is not), I feel this so much. I'm with you on the mountain being out, but the teriyaki is American style (not my preference) and I will die on that hill.

pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de · 6 pts · 160d (1 reply)

Catching a tossed fish and kissing the gum wall.

davidgro@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 160d

I'd much rather kiss the fish.

endless_nameless@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 160d

People don't connect like that here. If they did, the first rite would surely be to step over a homeless person without making eye contact.

Drusas@fedia.io · 2 pts · 158d

I've lived all over the world, and I think there are very few places which have what you're asking for. The best we have here is correcting people for calling it Pike's Place.

lessthanluigi@lemmy.sdf.org · 2 pts · 156d (1 reply)

Taking away the umbrella

neuracnu@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 155d

Finally!

I was aiming for creativity with this question. I really like the idea of ceremonially retiring an umbrella for a raincoat. Much more pleasant than getting someone’s socks wet, which is the best I’d come up with to acknowledge the rain.

One I saw during a comedy show: someone has invited you to an event. Acknowledge the invitation as kindly as possible without committing that you’ll be there.

“WOW that sounds fun!”

Heyla@quokk.au · 1 pts · 158d (1 reply)

Cops are fascist

💩💩💩

neuracnu@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 158d

Wrong post.