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Deaths these last 2 weeks

Postby Pete Reek » Sun Jul 12, 2009 11:17 pm

Sent to me in an e-mail. Not sure whether to laugh or not :?

With all the sadness and trauma going on in the world at the moment, it is worth reflecting on the death of a very important person which went almost unnoticed last week.

Larry LaPrise, the man that wrote "The Hokey Cokey" died peacefully at the age of 93.

The most traumatic part for his family was when they went to put him in the coffin. They put his left leg in and that's when the trouble started!
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Re: Deaths these last 2 weeks

Postby EMDEE » Mon Jul 13, 2009 12:09 am

I'd never heard of him before, but it appears he died in 1996 aged 84. Not a bad joke though. :D It appears that the Hokey-Cokey was devised in the 1940s, but I had thought it would have been much older than that. :?
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Re: Deaths these last 2 weeks

Postby ionnsaigh » Mon Jul 20, 2009 10:25 pm

Essentially the song gives instructions to dance. A similar type of genre was applied to dismantling, cleaning and the putting back together of an automatic machine gun. This was during one of the revolutions of South America, through a pirate radio station in the mountains - aimed at illiterate peasants. :lol:
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Re: Deaths these last 2 weeks

Postby hugh » Mon Jul 20, 2009 11:51 pm

ionnsaigh wrote:Essentially the song gives instructions to dance. A similar type of genre was applied to dismantling, cleaning and the putting back together of an automatic machine gun. This was during one of the revolutions of South America, through a pirate radio station in the mountains - aimed at illiterate peasants. :lol:


Is that the version that starts "We take their man out, we put our man in..."? :wink: :lol:
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