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Thread #111493   Message #2351208
Posted By: Phil Edwards
28-May-08 - 02:10 PM
Thread Name: 'English Country Dances', Please
Subject: RE: 'English Country Dances', Please
the character of Roderick Spode from the tv adaptation of Jeeves and Wooster

Based on Oswald Mosley (Spode was leader of the "Black Shorts"!)

"E-Ceilidh IS English dance" (Ruth)...so it's a misnomer - call them English country dances, and have them filled with mostly/all English tunes and dances and I will stop whinging

I have occasionally done things for no other reason than to stop a close relation or loved one whinging, but generally nothing more radical than going back to check the back door or stopping to buy an ice-cream. The idea that the English folk-dance scene should collectively forswear both non-English tunes and the word 'ceilidh', for no other reason than to stop Some Bloke On The Internet whinging, is a bit hard to take seriously. One could almost imagine that Some Bloke On The Internet actually wanted to carry on whinging...