Read on the bumper sticker of a truck:

Nov 04, 2006 00:29

"What if the Hokey Pokey really is what it's all about ( Read more... )

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la_vita_nuova November 4 2006, 06:40:15 UTC
Hey, I did some temp work for an architecture firm recently & it made me think of you. It was a great environment :).

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envyandrave November 6 2006, 19:08:17 UTC
That's a stretch.

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Not so much as you might think! dry_bones_live November 6 2006, 21:46:38 UTC
From Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hokey_Pokey):

"Other scholars have found similar dances and lyrics dating back to the 17th century. A very similar dance is cited in Robert Chamber's Popular Rhymes from 1826. The Oxford English Dictionary says that "hokey cokey" comes from "hocus pocus", the traditional magicians' incantation derived from Puritan mocking of the Latin Mass: during the consecration of the Eucharistic wine and Host, Roman Catholic priests stand with their backs to the congregation and say the magic words, "Hoc est enim corpus meum" (This is my body). It seems probable that this is also the origin of the phrase "Hanky-panky" and the word "hoax"."

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