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Come Inside... => Saloon Bar => Topic started by: Grumpmeister on January 05, 2009, 06:13:01 PM
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Well I'd never have seen this one coming. Of course young people are going to be too embarassed to take part in it, who wants to look like a total pillock danding with bells tied to them hitting their partner with a stick. point:
Morris dancing could be "extinct" within 20 years because young people are too embarrassed to take part, a UK Morris association has warned.
The number of people taking part in the English folk dance is falling while the average age of the dancers is going up.
The Morris Ring, which represents 200 troupes, hopes a recruitment drive will revive the flagging tradition.
"There is still time for new blood to get ready for the spring fertility offensive," said the ring's Paul Reece.
Morris dancing involves teams of dancers - often wearing hats and bells on their legs - wielding handkerchiefs, sticks or swords, to the accompaniment of folk music.
It dates back centuries, though its origins are unclear.
Charlie Corcoran, bagman of the Morris Ring, said: "There's a distinct possibility that in 20 years' time there will be nobody left.
"It worries me a great deal. Young people are just too embarrassed to take part.
"This is a serious situation. The average age of Morris dancing sides is getting older and older.
"Once we've lost this part of our culture, it will be almost impossible to revive it."
Dancing season
The Morris Ring aims to encourage the performance of Morris dancing and maintain its traditions.
It says there are more than 14,000 Morris dancers in the UK dancing for more than 800 sides.
The association hopes younger people will join over the coming months in time for the main dancing season in the spring.
Mr Reece, chairman of the ring's advisory council, said: "Such customs and activities were once a common sight around the country.
"Today they are carried out by an ever-dwindling stalwart band of enthusiasts who are determined to keep them alive.
"But there is a serious danger that, in less than a few decades, Morris dancing will be confined to the history books."
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Oh Dear! 'Ow Sad, Never Mind!
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All Morris Dancers should be shot evil:
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Actually I've had an idea, seeing as the government has totally cocked up the prison system and is having more people do 'community service' as a result of not having enough free cells why not have morris dancing part of that service. It preserves the culture while totally humiliating the people forced to do it. rubschin:
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Send the idea here
smithjj@parliament.uk
Her husband replies. She pays him £40K a year
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Any chance of setting up a pub team?
We could compete in the Sunday league, and it would put a few shekels across the bar.
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I never understood how they breed.
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Noisily I would think
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Sticks and bladders. noooo:
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The Morris Ring aims to encourage the performance of Morris dancing and maintain its traditions.
It says there are more than 14,000 Morris dancers in the UK dancing for more than 800 sides.
Should be enough to fill the Olympic Stadium come the opening ceremonies in 2012. ;)
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The Morris Ring aims to encourage the performance of Morris dancing and maintain its traditions.
It says there are more than 14,000 Morris dancers in the UK dancing for more than 800 sides.
Should be enough to fill the Olympic Stadium come the opening ceremonies in 2012. ;)
Is it an Olympic sport then?
Is there a para-Morris team dancing with white sticks or in wheelchairs?
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The Morris Ring aims to encourage the performance of Morris dancing and maintain its traditions.
It says there are more than 14,000 Morris dancers in the UK dancing for more than 800 sides.
Should be enough to fill the Olympic Stadium come the opening ceremonies in 2012. ;)
Is it an Olympic sport then?
Is there a para-Morris team dancing with white sticks or in wheelchairs?
No but there is an old joke about a team of blind football players, who use a ball with a bell in it, having a kick about in a pub garden whilst on an outing and ending up kicking the sh*t out of the local Morris Men.
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Tell us the joke then
God I am bored today noooo:
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How quickly your rejoicing at the peace and quiet of yesterday has turned to the boredom of today ~ No inner resources that's your trouble.
Can't tell you whole joke now as you know the punch line. whistle:
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I am back to werk and puzzling my head over a tricky job. evil:
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You're flippant. End of.
'Kin nuts too btw.
Saved me some CAKE btw?
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We have some left whistle: