You are right Mo, they were all very good dancers, bloody good caller too.

Another way you can get silly with the dancers, even with simple movements, is with a promenade mixer.

'Promenade all over the floor
anywhere all over the floor,
find two more and circle four'

Then you can call any movements that they know, like
ladies chain,
four hand star,
do sa do, (American callers used to use the do si [see] do pronunciation to refer to the four handed do si do, and the old Texas style do si do was changed to do paso.),
right and left thru,
swap and swing, ('now we'll swap and now we'll trade, your pretty girl for my old maid, an even swap an even switch your pretty girl for my old witch' or 'I'll swing your girl, you swing mine, gee oh golly ain't that fine, I've got yours but she's too thin so gimme back mine we'll swing again')
half sashay

Then you can teach new stuff from a circle four position or can find four more and circle eight or getting really silly find TWO more and circle six.

Hey it's fun remembering all this stuff.