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Joe's Ancient Jottings ([personal profile] acroyear) wrote2006-12-08 01:30 pm
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you did know morris dancers were wierd, right?

>Neighbors, please note that the announcement of holiday
>entertainments I just forwarded to the list includes the Foggy Bottom
>Morris Men doing their infamous Christmas Mummers Play at the Gazebo.
>This group, of which I am a member, has in past years performed this
>VERY SAME "entertainment" in the WACO neighborhood. I assure you that
>you can expect the same level of professionalism, the same tired
>lines, lame jokes, painful puns, and rotten acting. The "performers"
>will also do the perplexing and sedate Abbots Bromley Horn Dance, as
>well as some more energetic Morris Dances so that we, at least, will
>be warmer than the unfortunate audience. That's the evening of
>Thursday, Dec. 21 starting at 6:30 pm. You have been warned!
>
>Also, those of you with children, be advised that immediately
>following the Dec. 21 performance at the Gazebo, we will subject the
>annual Takoma Park Library Winter Solstice Celebration to the very
>same performance, though having run through it at the Gazebo, we
>might (faint hope) know our lines better by then. The program is in
>the Children's Room. Why you would want to subject a child to this is
>beyond me, unless of course he or she has been BAD.
>
>That program starts around 7:00 pm with more wholesome entertainments.
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[identity profile] thatliardiego.livejournal.com 2006-12-08 06:33 pm (UTC)(link)
"Weird" wouldn't be my first choice of word...

[identity profile] squireluckyshot.livejournal.com 2006-12-12 03:18 pm (UTC)(link)
I won't describe those wacky guys from Foggy Bottom as weird. a little self-deprecating, but maybe honest about their humble abilities to act, but not weird. i do hope that the squire from foggy bottom does not remember more lines between the first and second performances, but forgets even more lines (especially during the funny bits so that the joke go a little flat).

i suppose _certain_ viewers (and you know who you are) in the listening audience haven't been nearly BAD enough to merit going to see the seasonal holiday morris dancing.