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#57456 02/18/02 03:29 PM
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What about:-

Samba
Mambo
salsa
tango
quickstep
funk
jive
spin
reel
prance
pirouette
tip-toe
goose step
march
pound
jog
flick-flack
jeter (that's zhet-ay not jeet-er!)
boogie
disco
hike
amble
trek
stroll
limp
gimp

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#57457 02/18/02 03:45 PM
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Gimp????


#57458 02/18/02 03:49 PM
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gimp (gimp) Slang.
n.
A limp or a limping gait.
A person who limps.
intr.v., gimped, gimp·ing, gimps.
To walk with a limp.

[Origin unknown.]



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????Gimp????

Gallopin' with a limp ??


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and Surry--a made up word i think,
Surry down to stoned soul picnic-

or is that a mondegreen?
ever since the song, surry is languid, easy walk, of a summers day, with a nice buzz on..


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Hop, skip and a jump -- where does this come from?

I understood that it referred to the triple jump, a fancy distance jump event in track and field. I saw a similar term used in a book that I think predates the triple jump, though, so now I'm not sure of the origin. The book was probably one of Jane Austen's. When did the triple jump start? The modern Olympics didn't start until 1896. It could have been done in the original Greek Olympics, but I doubt the term would have been familiar when the book was written.


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When did the triple jump start?

The triple jump has been part of the (modern) men's olympics since their origin in 1896; it was added to the women's olympics in 1996.

http://www.infoplease.com/ipsa/A0115039.html
http://www.infoplease.com/ipsa/A0146987.html


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So far as I know, Jazzo, a Hop Skip and a Jump is a reference to the supposed way in which children, when they are happy, blithely progress along the road and oe'r the fields. 'Tis the stuff of children's story-books, I think, rather than an acute observation of young persons; nevertheless, children often do use a gait of that general type, if my own experience of my own progeny (a few years ago, now ) is anything to go by.


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Probably confused here, but don't people say use the hop, skip, and a jump in situations like this:

Lost Person: "How far from here is the Famous Crooked Spire?"

Person in the Know: "Why it's only a hop, skip, and a jump from here moving east!"

Lost Person: "Which was is east? Is that the direction where the sun goes down? I never can remember...."

And so on.

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Capitol Hill in Seattle has brass dance steps embedded in the sidewalk - I didn't find a comprehensive collection of the pictures (and I don't have mine scanned in), but there's a taste of it near the bottom of this page: http://www.ci.seattle.wa.us/tour/capitol.htm
I don't really have much to add to the conversation at hand, but it reminded me so strongly of this, I just wanted to share.

Later, after a narcissistic look at her post... Well, glory be! I'm an addict! [Double ]


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