spin

You could make a small fortune if you took it out the front and sold shots. Hmmm, perhaps we could have a pin the nails on the saviour blindfold competition.


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Cutter

:notworthy
If I'd had anything in my mouth when I read this, you'd've owed me a new monitor!

joedad

You guys are cruel.

In honor, I'm celebrating Good Day-of-the-Goddess by mowing my lawn nice and loud at about noon. And I think I'll have to leaf-blow the walks too...with music...and beer.

Toto

Man, you've got to pay attention to details. He goes into the hotel and throws down three nails and says, can you put me up for the night?

Not to invoke the triclavian heresy.

spin

Eoster was just some pagan deity tart and doesn't deserve a day of her own, but then, every dog deserves its day.

Maybe you could set up a maypole in the middle of your front lawn and do some impromptu morris dancing. Sorry, officer. I do understand the gravity of the celebration. Would you like a god on a stick?


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They're big nails. You think this guy could hold more than three? Hey, so you've heard it before. You didn't have to pay for it, so don't complain. I was fishing for more seasonal jokes. On Monday we talk about sinking while trying to walk on water, ending with the punchline, things have never been the same since the crucifixion.

Triclavian? Sounds like the sort of music I write with the piano in one key, the guitar in another and the drummer in yet another.


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Jackalope

Excuse me, but morris dancing has nothing to do with maypoles. And the
season hasn't started yet (I don't know of anyone who's going out earlier than the weekend of the 25th, either May Day or Whitsuntide is the traditional time).

Lee Thompson-Herbert, head musician White Rats Morris WARNING: Do not view if you're squeamish about body piercings.

rlogan

So Jesus is on the cross and says to Peter:

hey - I can see your house from up here!

Toto

If you google maypole + "morris dancing" you get over 600 hits (with another 100 or so for "may pole"), including this. Are you telling me these are all heretics?

And since we have moved on to Maypoles, is there a cosmic connection between the Maypole and the cross?

Wikipedia sez Odin "hung himself from the tree Yggdrasil, whilst pierced by his own spear, to acquire knowledge. . . . Some scholars would see this as a garbled version of the story of Christ's crucifixion."

The idea of the cross as a phallic symbol - well, I think it would upset the Methodist Church where I grew up.

Jackalope

Clog morris is not the same as cotswald morris, which is what's associated with Whitsuntide (Pentecost) and May Day. In fact "morris" covers at least 5 distinct regional styles of dance, not all of them associated with springtime. The cotswald morris associated with Whitsuntide was sometimes also associated with church ales, which were an excuse to throw a big-ass party and collect money from the parish. However, both the dancing and the party were considered too riotous for certain reformers.

The White Rats dance a version of Adderbury. The original Adderbury Morris Men were mostly noted for never actually finishing a tour. They inevitably got drunk and started a fight about halfway through the day. From reading through other historical accounts, they were not atypical.

Maypole dancing and morris thrown together appears to be a product of victorian-era revivalists. While both were done, they were generally done by different groups. The one exception I can think of is Leafield Town, where the circular dance The Rose was danced by the morris men around the maypole. But that's still not a typical maypole dance with streamers.