Dance
Do the Peg Leg!
The "peg-leg" was a brief dance craze back in 1953. To do the peg leg, a man simply wore a wooden leg over his right leg as he danced with his partner. The dance was imported from the Dominican Republic where, so the story goes, a sailor with a wooden leg once was so seized by the rhythm of the merengue that "he stood up and took part in the dancing. The people loudly applauded and imitated the clumsy and awkward dancing of the seaman. This way a new dance came into existence." [Montreal Gazette, May 1953]
Posted By: Alex - Sat Apr 06, 2013 -
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Category: Fads, 1950s, Dance
The Dopey Joes
More random "culture" from the inexplicable French.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Apr 04, 2013 -
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Category: Contests, Races and Other Competitions, Dance, Europe
Sheboygan Brat Days
August is practically here! Don't forget to head to beautiful Sheboygan for their annual Brat Days celebration. The first video tells the schedule for two years ago, but I can't imagine it will be too different in 2013, although on the other hand, it's their big 60th anniversary!
Plus, as you can see in the second video, they even feature sexy pole dancing!
Posted By: Paul - Tue Mar 19, 2013 -
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Category: Food, Parades and Festivals, Regionalism, Public Indecency, Dance
Thuppakki
Certainly this song from the hit film THUPPAKKI stands a chance at becoming the next "Gangnam Style" craze!
Posted By: Paul - Fri Dec 28, 2012 -
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Category: Movies, Dance, India
The Charlie Brown School of Dance
Posted By: Paul - Fri Dec 14, 2012 -
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Category: Comics, 1960s, Dance, Parody
Rain Dance
Everybody wang chung tonight! Er, I mean, everybody rain dance! What moves! I'm sure all Native Americans are proud of this interpretation of their sacred rituals.
I love the fact that they got Darth Vader to do the spoke-word intro.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Nov 29, 2012 -
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Category: Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Music, Religion, Dance, Native Americans
Little and Large
Samantha Fox dances with Chris Greener. The picture must have been taken sometime in the 1980s.
Posted By: Alex - Sat Oct 27, 2012 -
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Category: 1980s, Dance
Creative Destruction
"A short film inspired by EDWARD SCISSORHANDS..."
Curse your soul to hell, Tim Burton!
Posted By: Paul - Thu Aug 30, 2012 -
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Category: Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Movies, Avant Garde, Performance Art, Dance
It’s Flashbeagle, Charlie Brown
Flashdancing and squaredancing?!? Most swiftly outmoded Charlie Brown special ever!
Posted By: Paul - Wed Jul 18, 2012 -
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Category: Fads, Cartoons, Dogs, 1980s, Dance
My Excellent South American Adventure
Despite my daily posts last week, I was really among the missing. I spent from the 20th to the 27th (counting travel time) in Medellin, Colombia, being a guest speaker at this conference.But now I'm home, and have read all the posts and comments from the past week, and just want to say a big thanks to Alex and Chuck and all the witty, talented WU-vies who make this site so wonderful.
Here are two fotos from my trip.
Salsa dancers working up a sweat to advertise something at EIGHT IN THE MORNING! I was ready to buy anything the ladies offered.
Strange grafitti. What revelation is the monkey experiencing?
Posted By: Paul - Tue Feb 28, 2012 -
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Category: Animals, Conventions, Advertising, Paul, Dance, South America
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