From: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org (alloy-digest) To: alloy-digest@smoe.org Subject: alloy-digest V4 #223 Reply-To: alloy@smoe.org Sender: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "alloy-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. alloy-digest Sunday, August 15 1999 Volume 04 : Number 223 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Alloy: Non-traditional wedding music (Dolby/Other) [TBlagg@aol.com] Re: Alloy: Non-traditional wedding music (Dolby/Other) [TBlagg@aol.com] Re: Alloy: Non-traditional wedding music (Dolby/Other) [RThurF@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 14 Aug 1999 05:13:27 EDT From: TBlagg@aol.com Subject: Re: Alloy: Non-traditional wedding music (Dolby/Other) In a message dated 13/08/99 13:30:13 GMT Daylight Time, RThurF@aol.com writes: << Imagine anyone forging their way toward wedded bliss without the benefit of the Hokey Pokey, or even the Chicken Dance! Unheard of, I know..! Robin T >> Guys & Gals, what's Hokey Pokey? is it anything like Hokey Kokey? This would be really strange! I can't imagine anyone doing the Hokey Kokey for their supposedly loving 1st dance as a married couple.....It would be like singing Bat out of Hell as the 1st hymn or reciting something from the Stephen King Bible as the opening psalm?? Did anybody see that classic 4 Weddings & a Funeral ? They sang an ABBA song whilst walking down the isle! Tine requested this too, but the Orthodox Danish Church's Priest thought it unappropriate......."I Scare myself" would have been much more applicable don't you think? Trev... ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 14 Aug 1999 05:13:28 EDT From: TBlagg@aol.com Subject: Re: Alloy: Non-traditional wedding music (Dolby/Other) In a message dated 13/08/99 01:30:30 GMT Daylight Time, RThurF@aol.com writes: << It's hard to imagine anyone tampering with someone else's choice of music for their first wedding dance! Your jaw must have dropped to the floor! >> My Jaw wasn't the only thing that dropped to the floor Robin! A strange tradition in Scandinavian countries is at such momentous occasions is, whilst the happy couple are in the middle of their 1st dance, for all the male guests to slowly surround the groom, rip his tie and socks off, the cut them in two! Needless to say, I knew this was going to happen and had a spare cheapo tie that I kept in my inside pocket in time for the big moment. However, what they conveniently forgot to inform me was that when Danish men get pissed, their idea of a laugh is to completely de-bag the groom in front of his on looking family! It got worse......My EX friend, Lars went one step further by, proudly waving my shiny boxers for all to see..... It was such a proud moment for my parents...! Trev... ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 14 Aug 1999 11:07:20 EDT From: RThurF@aol.com Subject: Re: Alloy: Non-traditional wedding music (Dolby/Other) In a message dated 8/14/99 5:16:34 AM Eastern Daylight Time, TBlagg@aol.com writes: :: My Jaw wasn't the only thing that dropped to the floor Robin! :: ~snip raunchy wedding story~ Now THAT"s an amazing ceremonial tradition if I ever heard of one! What is it meant to symbolise? (LOL :) I've heard of some very interesting traditions for weddings over the years. A friend of mine tells me that in her country (Poland) the weddings go on for three or four days, especially in countryside communities, and involve continuous drinking of vodka the entire time. If you aren't drinking vodka in between bouts of unconsciousness on (or under) the banquet table, the hosts think you aren't having a good enough time & their feelings are hurt. They just keep filling up your glass. Given the guests' extremely drunken state, there are major brawls breaking out amongst the men for various reasons, and random romantic liasons going on amongst all of the inebriated guests (which can sometimes lead to the brawls of course) - all often in the dead of winter when there are no farming chores, and getting together for celebrations is an excellent way to allay their isolation & forget the cold. The last time she was in Poland, my friend was riding the bus and overheard some women talking about a wedding one of them had just attended. The woman said "It was a great wedding - not a single corpse!" ... since getting through an entire traditional wedding in Poland without at least one death is extremely unusual (given the gallons of vodka, fighting, and sub-zero temperatures involved.. not the healthiest combination...) What are the words to 'Hokey Kokey'? Do you put your right foot in, and put your right foot out, and so on? If so, then it's probably the same thing. It's done as a group dance in a lot of larger wedding receptions in the US (as is the Chicken Dance) but never as the first dance as far as I know. Robin T :) ------------------------------ End of alloy-digest V4 #223 ***************************