Paging the bearded stick and hanky posse

Just been watching Dance Brittania [1], there was an interesting
section on the morris in the first episode.

It might still be on iPlayer [2] or I can bung it on ukrmnova if
anyone's interested.

[1]
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/documentaries/features/dance_britannia.shtml
[2] http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/page/item/b008m3mr.shtml

 

<fx: TOG & WUN get out their hankies and their bearded sticks>

 

They are not the only two Morris dancers in the group.

Boxerboy

 

Get your bearded stick out, then.

 

All of the * Britannia series have been good. But it's BBC Four, which
is probably the greatest tv channel mankind has ever known, so no real
surprise. Shame the Time Shift strand seems to have tailed off, as that
was corking.

 

I did this very evening, I also spanked my plank in order to generate
some vaguely musical tones for others to get their sticks out to as
well.

However as I dance border morris we have women in our side, this means
that my bearded stick is regularly beaten by women.

<fx gnashing of teeth by WUN and TOG>

Boxer

 

Sexual morrisment is what it is.

I have just been dancing tonight. One of our lot has just retired from
Plod, and his leaving do was in a local pub.

Lots of Plod and Morris men, trying to outdo each other on the beer
drinking stakes.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, The Older

I was just musing the other night that it's probably a couple of years
since I last danced. Some of my side suddenly started taking themselves
very seriously, and all the fun went out of it.

 

<proffers hanky>

 

In message

WIMMIN ????

 

Are there any women here?

 

Oddly, I think we've gone the other way. There are some very keen
"maintain the tradition" and "this must be danced to technical
perfection" people, but in the last few years there's been an influx of
"We just enjoy it, and we're never going to be that good" types. Like
me.

I really, really do enjoy watching a Fieldtown or Sherborne dance danced
perfectly, but I get as much out of having a good time.

 

<squeak> No!, No!
<gruff> No! No!

Sorry, but it seemed rude to leave it hanging.

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