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Thread #117249   Message #2523896
Posted By: An Buachaill Caol Dubh
24-Dec-08 - 11:34 AM
Thread Name: Origins: the Hokey Cokey and the Catholic Mass?
Subject: RE: Origins: the Hokey Cokey and the Catholic Mass?
When I saw an introductory BBC Scotland clip about this most recent manifestation of "let's see how offended we can get about something", a clip which ended with some singing/dancing children shouting "Rah! Rah! Rah!" at the end of what I had always thought was the whole "Hokey Cokey" song/dance, I assumed that the complaint was going to be made by the Rangers group about Celtic supporters making a reference to the Irish Republican Army, i.e. the I.R.A., sometimes known as "The RA". The "Hoc est corpus" derivation doesn't strike me as plausible as the "Ecco un poco" one, by the way, but even allowing that Celtic supporters, or the Catholic Hierarchy, can get all het up about some imagined slight to their Mysteries of Faith, would it not be a good idea to start the Urban Myth that the "Rah! Rah! Rah!" bit is indeed a reference to the I.R.A. (even though it sounds rather like something shrilled out by the supporters of some Hockey team at a Ladies Finishing School), so that BOTH sets of "numpties" can get all offended at different bits of the same God-awful lump of keich? At least if they're "singing" at one another they're no' kickin' fuck out of one another (or smashing the windows in Argyle Street).