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The Straight Story

(48,121 posts) Fri Nov 29, 2013, 01:41 PM Nov 2013

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Meet the Crappers: Spain's craziest Christmas decorations

Caganers are an unuusal feature of Spain's Christmas cribs. Traditionally the caganer, or crapper, shows a peasant from one of Spain's Catalan-speaking areas in a red 'barretina' cap defecating. But Spain now has a booming trade in celebrity caganers with everyone from football star Leo Messi to US president Barack Obama coming in for the crapper treatment.

Pics of various ones at link:

http://bit.ly/1fPG10D

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Meet the Crappers: Spain's craziest Christmas decorations (Original Post) The Straight Story Nov 2013 OP

I'd forgotten about those. MineralMan Nov 2013 #1

MineralMan

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1. I'd forgotten about those.

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Fri Nov 29, 2013, 01:51 PM

Nov 2013

Google Images has lots more if you search for caganer. It's a quaint cultural phenomenon, I think.

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