BS: Jingle Bells (Any Morris Dancers here?)

Subject: Jingle Bells
From: pipsqueak
Date: 23 May 01 - 03:36 PM

Are there any Morris Dancer's round here ?

Subject: RE: BS: Jingle Bells
From: MMario
Date: 23 May 01 - 03:43 PM

yup! they should be around sooner or later.

Subject: RE: BS: Jingle Bells
From: pipsqueak
Date: 23 May 01 - 03:47 PM

oh .... I was just asking because I was such a bitch to some recently and wanted to apologise !

Subject: RE: BS: Jingle Bells
From: vectis
Date: 23 May 01 - 05:27 PM

Did you hear the one about the morris dancer who came home to find his wife in bed with a fellow morris man.
They were wearing nothing but their bells!

Subject: RE: BS: Jingle Bells
From: GUEST
Date: 23 May 01 - 05:34 PM

I may be dim, Vectis, but I don't get it...

Subject: RE: BS: Jingle Bells
From: GUEST,raggytash
Date: 23 May 01 - 06:44 PM

Me Neither

Subject: RE: BS: Jingle Bells
From: vectis
Date: 24 May 01 - 06:45 PM

Neither did the husband. Or at least that's what he told the divorce court.

Subject: RE: BS: Jingle Bells
From: GUEST,JohnB
Date: 25 May 01 - 12:54 PM

Apology accepted. There is one thing though, Morris Dancers never really notice when someone is being bitchy, water off a Ducks back and all.

Subject: RE: BS: Jingle Bells
From: ermintrudeclaire
Date: 28 May 01 - 04:24 PM

have you heard the huw and tony williams version of jungle bells that relates to morris men? i love it - but then i am not a morris man......

Subject: RE: BS: Jingle Bells
From: RichM
Date: 28 May 01 - 04:34 PM

As a Canadian, I am mystified about the term "morris dancer". Why do people heap abuse on them?

Rich

Subject: RE: BS: Jingle Bells
From: Snuffy
Date: 29 May 01 - 08:40 AM

If you're not allowed to make insensitive, hurtful and malicious remarks about blacks, Jews, Irish, Poles, gays, etc, what does that leave you? Just Morris Dancers and the English.

And with us English morris dancers you get a "toofer". So fire away - as was stated above, it's all water off a duck's back.

Wassail! V

Subject: RE: BS: Jingle Bells
From: Gervase
Date: 29 May 01 - 11:20 AM

Cheer up Snuffy - after all, God was kind enough to invent line dancers so morris dancers could finally have someone to insult!

Subject: RE: BS: Jingle Bells
From: Kim C
Date: 29 May 01 - 12:36 PM

Everybody talks about Morris dancing, but nobody does anything about it....

Seriously, though, I hear people talking about this and I still know NOTHING about it. Even a little Net surfing really didn't tell me much.

So what's it all about?

Subject: RE: BS: Jingle Bells
From: Burke
Date: 29 May 01 - 12:46 PM

Kim, Here's one information page I found by searching Morris dancing at Yahoo. Morris Dancing

It's usually six guys dressed in funny clothes dancing in lines of 3 facing each other. They wear bells on thier shins and wave handkerchiefs or sticks when dancing. It's very, very old. It's very athletic & women do it now days as well.

Subject: RE: BS: Jingle Bells
From: Kim C
Date: 29 May 01 - 01:57 PM

Thanks Burke!

Subject: RE: BS: Jingle Bells
From: Snuffy
Date: 29 May 01 - 08:11 PM

Don't need to cheer up, Gervase. We don't give a hoot whether we're loved or insulted. We just ARE. You might as well try to slag off a lake to see if you can upset it.