You put your left leg in........

This for the heart


Pip. It's been a long few days for you. I know this so well. You're very special in my heart. I love you.


This for the funny bone

With all the sadness and trauma going on in the world at the moment, along with the craziness of the election season, it is worth reflecting on the death of a very important person, which almost went unnoticed last week.

Larry La Prise, the man who wrote "The Hokey Cokey", died peacefully at age 93. The most traumatic part for his family was getting him into the coffin. They put his left leg in. And then the trouble started."


This for the brain


THE hokey cokey, the popular dance, has always been seen as an innocent, if raucous, form of entertainment. But, it would seem, an Anglican clergyman has now discovered a more sinister side:

it originated as a parody of the Roman Catholic Church's Latin Mass.

Canon George Nairn-Briggs, Provost of Wakefield Cathedral, West Yorkshire,says that both the name of the dance and its actions were originally designed to satirise the traditional Mass and the clergy.

The dance involves participants forming a chain and flinging their limbs about in line with commands.

Canon Nairn-Briggs said: "In the days when the priest celebrated the Mass

with his back to the people and whispered the Latin words of consecration with many hand movements, the laity mimicked the movements as they saw them and the words as they misheard them.

" The words "hokey cokey" were a mishearing, or a deliberate parody, of the Latin phrase "Hoc est enim corpusmeum", which translates as "This is my body".

Canon Nairn-Briggs also contends that another corruption of the same phrase is "hocus pocus", the words believed to be used by magicians when they were casting spells.

Historical sources appear to back up his theories. The Hokey Cokey became a popular dance in 1940s America and crossed the Atlantic with US soldiers.But its origins are much older and it seems to have gained popularity originally on this side of the Atlantic, before being taken to the US by refugees.

An earlier folk dance version was performed in mainland Europe in the 19th century.The Oxford English Dictionary says that "hokey cokey" comes from "hocuspocus", the traditional magicians' incantation that derives from a Latin phrase used in satanic masses, themselves parodies of the Latin Mass.


And this for the bedroom

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JVIP