I Miss Assemblies.
Elementary, Junior High, and even High School assemblies were awesome. The best, of course, were the elementary assemblies because you had to take your own chair to the auditorium. (As an aside, one elementary assembly involved a group of cloggers. Collectively - the kindergartners through 6th levels - were not impressed. We all booed the cloggers and we later had an entire assembly on manners.) Anyway, this clip reminded me of an assembly. It's a six-minute video (stick with it - the last minute is the best) of the Evolution of Dance. From Chubby to Eminem and Village People to N*Sync. (This lively character did, however, omit the line dance to Ready for the World's "Oh Sheila" - and that is a crime.)
How can I trade meetings, seminars, and webinars for a good old assemby? Hell, I'd settle for a filmstrip this afternoon.
posted by h.justin @ 11:45 AM
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Booed the cloggers huh? We both know they were most definitely the Hay Day Cloggers, of which, yours truly was a member.
It’s okay, I blame my mom for scarring me for life with such a lame hobby.
I’m with you on assemblies, but I miss Pep Rallies most. No skits and they were so easy to sluff. Oh, and I miss slufffing.
I clogged. I sucked at it. What a terrible thing to do to girl cloggers, what with the poofy skirts and all. Tragedy.
Ah, film strips. It was always a badge of honor to be the kid that got to turn the knob on the projector...I'd gladly give up meetings, meetings, meetings and planning sessions for a film strip. A film strip or a good old fashioned game of Heads Up Seven Up.
Okay you Hillbilly Tapdancers, should either of you, or both, elect to put on a clogging show for me, I assure I will not "boo."
b-lo - You sluff more often as a marketing director than you ever did in school.
slcup: You have to agree, a game of Heads Up Seven Up beats a hockey game everytime.
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Don't forget recess! There's nothing better...especially on a day like today!
Right now? Hell yes it does. Stupid Avs.
That's a strange fantasy HJ. But whatever. I'll teach slcup my "couples" routine choriographed to El Debarge's "Who's Johnny." I was 11 but I think I remember a good bit of it.
How great would that be? I'm in. What do we get in return?
Slcup, I'm afraid all we'd get in return is booed, despite hj's promise otherwise. Clogging will just never be cool.
No boos. I promise. No boos. But there will be a camera. I will send the video to Nornna and post it on YouTube.
My very first thought was, "He'd film it and we'd be some sad internet forward." ... "FW: Make sure your sound is up for this one. Hilarious...."
This shit's going to be so good. I'll buy a couple pairs of clogs. No costumes needed for this particular number.
Pervs.
Okay....I am a little late, but the clip brought back memories of my lip synch performance of Olivia Newton John, A Little More Love, in white silk pants and top in front of all of Churchill Junior High. Oh....Justy if you just had footage of that and the Jean Nate scene, you would be in business. Keep on rockin' Cloggers!
I bet you really nailed the crescendo, K - "would a little more looooove make you stop pretending, would a little more love bring a happy ending . . . would a little more love make it right . . . " You looked hot, I know it.
Hot, for sure! Feathered hair that was big because I used to sleep in pointy hot rollers to make sure it was fluffy enough. Nice huh?
I'm not lying when I say - let's bring the big hair back. I want you bitches sleeping in rollers again and waking up and feathering, feathering, feathering. And we fellas will feather again too. I'll rock the comb in the back pocket. It will be the perfect companion to my Lagoon season pass.
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