It's a group dance often done at weddings. Well, not so much anymore - it was big in the 80s. Sort of like the macarena, but not quite as bad.
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Katie M - Nov 16, 2002 2:43:26 pm PST #418 of 9843
I was charmed (albeit somewhat perplexed) by the fannish sensibility of many of the music choices -- it's like the director was trying to vid Canada. --loligo on the Olympic Opening Ceremonies
John H - Nov 16, 2002 2:44:57 pm PST #419 of 9843
Triple, because, well, coffee.
Min, so happy to hear your friends are doing well.
I'm conscious now that I wasn't one of the people who sent you good wishes and good-luck vibes and so on, but I was busy, and in Asia myself, at the time. I do so retrospectively now. Very glad to hear they're better.
John H - Nov 16, 2002 2:45:48 pm PST #420 of 9843
It's a group dance often done at weddings.
Aha, that makes sense. Not the one where everyone pretends to row a boat or whatever? That one was a bit surreal.
Hil R. - Nov 16, 2002 2:50:31 pm PST #421 of 9843
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Aha, that makes sense. Not the one where everyone pretends to row a boat or whatever? That one was a bit surreal.
Nope. Grapevine right, clap. Grapevine left, clap. Three steps back, clap. Step front, tap back foot, weight on back foot, tap front foot, quarter turn. (Or, once you've done this at the first bunch of the 18 bar and bat mitzvahs for kids in your grade, start thinking up endless variations that eventually include break-dancing moves.)
Rebecca Lizard - Nov 16, 2002 3:37:58 pm PST #422 of 9843
You sip / say it's your crazy / straw say it's you're crazy / as you bicycle your soul / with beauty in your basket
Super Porny Pants swoops in: "Darn right it's 'future', YOUNG lady!"
What? How was that porny? I don't get it.
... also I love AH's voice, but, hey, hello, I'm Rebecca Lizard, I'm in love with Alyson Hannigan. Her voice reminds me of the voice of Kelly, the graduate student who taught us at Columbia. I was all swoony over her, too.
Caroma - Nov 16, 2002 11:00:58 pm PST #423 of 9843
Hello! I must be going.
At the weddings I go to (NYC, NJ area, Catholic and Jewish) the Electric Slide is usually performed by the women and little kids only. The guys of all ages dance with their SOs, of course, and the younger ones, when it's really late and they're drunker than drunk and feeling no pain, do that thing where they run into each other and slam their fronts together. In a non-porny way. The bridal and groom parties have at two I've been to danced to 'Paradise by the Dashboard Light'.
Of course, if they do swing dancing, middle-aged people like my folks rule the floor. And the rules can be broken if you're old or bold enough--there exists authentic videotape of my then-82 yo grandpa doing the Funky Chicken at his 50th wedding party.
YWMV.
Edited to add that Protestants get married too, I guess, but I happen to have been only at one Proddy wedding. A pianist, a harpist, a singer, no dancing.
DCJensen - Nov 17, 2002 5:42:01 pm PST #424 of 9843
All is well that ends in pizza.
John H - Nov 17, 2002 5:47:16 pm PST #425 of 9843
It's time for someone to trot out that old gag about [religious sect] which discourages sex, on the grounds that it might lead to dancing...
Caroma - Nov 17, 2002 5:51:10 pm PST #426 of 9843
Hello! I must be going.
Daniel, irony alert.
DCJensen - Nov 17, 2002 6:38:03 pm PST #427 of 9843
All is well that ends in pizza.
Sorry, not paying the attention thing, again.