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Morris Dancing
oook? Started conversation Apr 30, 1999
Your description of American Football sounds not too unlike Morris Dancing. Except of course Morris Dancers do it with bells on and big sticks and not odd shaped balls with body armour.
Morris Dancing
John the gardener says, "Free Tibet!" Posted May 9, 1999
Morris dancing is a ritual taunting performed by chartered accountants and dentists.
Morris Dancing
Ginger The Feisty Posted May 11, 1999
I take offence. I'm an accountant and have never morris-danced in my life (although I have a dim recollection of doing maypole dancing when I was a sprog)
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John the gardener says, "Free Tibet!" Posted May 11, 1999
No offense, comrade. I too have been known to braid a May-pole, also sprog-size. I don't run into many people who have even heard of May-poles anymore. Shame.
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Hairy Fez Posted Aug 4, 1999
I too take offence, I have Morris Danced but NEVER raised a ledger in anger.
Morris Dancing
John the gardener says, "Free Tibet!" Posted Aug 5, 1999
That's the only way I would raise one. 
[Note: JTG's just jealous 'cause he can't do sums.]
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Hand of Bod, ACE Posted Sep 10, 1999
sorry to jump in, but i was immensely amused by this forum. i have a question, well, two actually; - does anybody apart from the practicioners take moris dancing seriously any more? and was the username oook? influenced by the books of a certain mr pratchett? (the morris dancing bit posted by said user sounded vaguely familiar) 
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Hand of Bod, ACE Posted Sep 10, 1999
oh yes, and maypole dancing is not yet dead - i have vivid recollections (often closely followed by me waking up circa 3 am in a cold sweat) of maypole dancing by certain individuals aged between 8 and 10 during my primary school years. this was only about 8 years ago, too. so the sprogs are possibly still being scarred for life in a little village/small town lurking in the leicstershire countryside.
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Mark Rogers Posted May 10, 2000
As a morris dancer, I don't always take it seriously. Well, that said, there are some seriously crap morris teams around.
I take good morris seriously - that which has been altered to make a modern audience stop, look and admire (and often laugh for the right reasons). It's an entertainment, not a ritual, and as there are so many other forms of entertainment out there for consumers, we have to be good.
And a bunch of 80 year old retired accountants skipping gently around saying that they are doing a fertility dance is not good.
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- 1: oook? (Apr 30, 1999)
- 2: John the gardener says, "Free Tibet!" (May 9, 1999)
- 3: Ginger The Feisty (May 11, 1999)
- 4: John the gardener says, "Free Tibet!" (May 11, 1999)
- 5: Hairy Fez (Aug 4, 1999)
- 6: John the gardener says, "Free Tibet!" (Aug 5, 1999)
- 7: Hand of Bod, ACE (Sep 10, 1999)
- 8: Hand of Bod, ACE (Sep 10, 1999)
- 9: Mark Rogers (May 10, 2000)
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