singaround protocol, Alaskan style

Subject: RE: singaround protocol, Alaskan style
From: treewind
Date: 27 Oct 09 - 11:07 AM

Good Taste IS still timeless!.
I think you mean "good time" is tasteless, in this case...
A.

Subject: RE: singaround protocol, Alaskan style
From: Severn
Date: 26 Oct 09 - 10:58 PM

Yes, Art, traditions just continue, marking a "passing on" down the line.....

Following, some ancient cussed 'em, no doubt.









Sorry, Bill (Revisited)

Subject: RE: singaround protocol, Alaskan style
From: artbrooks
Date: 26 Oct 09 - 09:23 PM

Severn, it's good to see that you're back in your old form.

Subject: RE: singaround protocol, Alaskan style
From: Severn
Date: 26 Oct 09 - 09:20 PM

Piss & Love, Brethren and Cistern, Piss & Love!

Is this more like unto The Anal Folk Tradition?



(Sorry, Bill! I also beat you to THAT, as well. Probably by at least a mile).






Gee, whiz! Good Taste IS still timeless!.........

Subject: RE: singaround protocol, Alaskan style
From: Severn
Date: 26 Oct 09 - 09:04 PM

Are any of you "stench traditionalists" still urining to go back to the old ways?

Were they throwing someone a Golden Shower for their 50th Annadversity?

Well, be thankful! If they'd waited to do the singing afterwards, it could have gone from bladder to verse......





(Sorry, Bill D, I beat you to it......)

Subject: RE: singaround protocol, Alaskan style
From: GUEST,eric the viking
Date: 26 Oct 09 - 07:45 PM

They learnt it from early Orcadians who left and sailed west and north a bit.

Subject: RE: singaround protocol, Alaskan style
From: Jack Campin
Date: 26 Oct 09 - 01:24 PM

Thanks, SINSULL - I had a note saying "Bourke" in that file but didn't remember what it stood for. That's where the quotation must come from.

Subject: RE: singaround protocol, Alaskan style
From: Bill D
Date: 26 Oct 09 - 12:34 PM

gives a whole new meaning to singing "pianissimo".

(so..this only works if everyone in the group are 'peons'?)

Sorry Severn...I beat you to it.

Subject: RE: singaround protocol, Alaskan style
From: Leadfingers
Date: 26 Oct 09 - 12:24 PM

SINS - I will refarin from ANY comment about our delighful Alaskan friends and Nudity !

Subject: RE: singaround protocol, Alaskan style
From: SINSULL
Date: 26 Oct 09 - 11:25 AM

Scatalogic Rites of All Nations By John G. Bourke

Covers this and other rites.

Wonder if Ebbie and KT do this in private? They seemed reasonably well behaved at the Getaway.

Subject: RE: singaround protocol, Alaskan style
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 26 Oct 09 - 11:16 AM

"Dr. W.J. Hoffman, Bureau of Ethnology, Washington DC, quoting Victor Namoff..."

Jack, old son, I believe you have been victimized by a FOAF (friend of a friend) account. If you've ever read books about urban tales, you'd know not to trust a FOAF account.

Some famous FOAF accounts are the iron hook in the car door, the spiders in the up-do, and the ghostly hitchhiker. All them "actually happened to somebody that's personally known to somebody that the teller actually knows."

As for me, I am not prepared to believe that account of 'a dance' at all.

Subject: RE: singaround protocol, Alaskan style
From: Betsy
Date: 26 Oct 09 - 11:05 AM

I think all singarounds should be a good piss up.

Subject: RE: singaround protocol, Alaskan style
From: Crow Sister (off with the fairies)
Date: 26 Oct 09 - 10:13 AM

What happens, if you suffer from 'shy bladder syndrome'? I guess the afflicted would not be allowed to join the fun and dancing.

Subject: RE: singaround protocol, Alaskan style
From: Gedi
Date: 26 Oct 09 - 09:30 AM

Whew, glad we don't have to do that in Chorlton!

Although come to think of it a dog once wandered in and urinated on a table leg during a rousing performance of the Farmers Toast....

Subject: RE: singaround protocol, Alaskan style
From: Bob the Postman
Date: 26 Oct 09 - 07:52 AM

But never, under any circumstances, is one to perform "Wild Rover".

Subject: singaround protocol, Alaskan style
From: Jack Campin
Date: 26 Oct 09 - 07:24 AM

Something I noted years ago and forgot about:

[Dr. W.J. Hoffman, Bureau of Ethnology, Washington DC, quoting Victor Namoff on
a ceremonial dance of the Aiga-lukamut Eskimo of the southern coast of Alaska]

The participants, numbering about ten dozen, were entirely naked, and after being seated a short time several natives, detailed as musicians, began to sing. Then one of the natives arose, and performed the disgusting operation of urinating over the back and shoulders of the person seated next to him, after which he jumped down upon the ground, and began to dance, keeping time with the music. The one who had been subjected to the operation just mentioned, then subjected his nearest neighbour to a similar douche, and he in turn the next in order, and so on until the last person on the bench had been similarly dealt with, he in turn being obliged to accommodate the initiator of the movement, who ceases dancing for that purpose. In the meantime all those who have relieved themselves step down and join in the dance, which is furious and violent, inducing great perspiration and an intolerable stench. No additional information was given further than that the structure may have been used in this instance as a sudatory, the urine and violent movements being deemed sufficient to supply the participants with a sweat-bath.