#57486
02/20/2002 1:17 PM
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Oh-- getting back to Dance step.. and moving away from horizontal Tango movements...
Crossing thread again.. scoot, scootch, squiggle, sashay, surrey.. so many Swith soft, small, sensuous movements.. or are they rhythmic, sea like movements?
(dance theory says dance movements echo the dancers environments.. and people who live on flat plains have flat dances, with subtle movements.. and mountain dwellers have sharp angluar movements, with leaps and jumps.. and sea coast dwellers have rhtymic, pulsing movements, like the tides.. with occational, startling elements.. (rogue wave)..any thoughts on how words and language do the same?)
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#57487
02/20/2002 2:44 PM
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"Just a scosh.." long O ... is a New Englandism meaning a teeny weeny bit. At least so I thought.
Then I went to Hawaii and heard it there but thought to self "Well New England Missionaries did come here."
Then - lo and behold!
My Japanese neighbor used the word and I learned it is Japanese meaning a little bit!
Then I remembered that New England sailing ships visited Japan and stopped in Hawaii for water and fresh fruits/veggies.And there was an influx of Japanese into Hawaii in the 1800s. Then of course King Kalakaua, on a visit to Japan, suggested his daughter marry the Emporer's son but the idea came to nothing.
But that nothing to do with motion, unless you count the movement of time and the spheres and ... oh! Dear me! I am wandering too far afield ... again. Sorry!
Song playing softly in background : "It's a small world after all, it's a small world after all...."
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#57488
02/20/2002 4:15 PM
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>And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
Geez, when you say slouches like that is sounds really threatening, like something evil is slithering on its way.
Slouches here, is usually done by teenages just hanging loose, not sitting upright, but with their backs curved a little.
Somehow though, your use seems very apt and conveys the "dark brooding shape coming this way" well.
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#57489
02/20/2002 8:25 PM
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For your scootches and squiggles I would use budge up. Budge up a bit -- make some room to fit me in as well.
Oh, Bing! You gonna squeeze and squiggle and scootch and budge up with Helen and me? Slide on down Helen, we need some room for Bing! 
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#57490
02/20/2002 8:51 PM
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i always find room for My dear Mr. Bingley!
Do be carefull, if jackie find any one cosying up with out including her, well, Lets not have that happen!
My Dear Mr. Bingley, surely you won't mind budging up with us, three? I'll sit at your right, and angel your left, and Jackie will have to fend for her self!
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#57491
02/20/2002 9:03 PM
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All right, what's going on here?! Bing, Bing, Bing, Bing, Bing, that's all we hear, it's like Christmas bells for heaven's sake. Fess up ladies, y'all can tell me, what is it makes Bingley such a hot commodity? Anything the rest of us ladies would be interested in? (wink, wink, nudge, nudge)
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#57492
02/20/2002 9:11 PM
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#57493
02/20/2002 9:14 PM
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Bel, the answer is quite simple, the less attainable a man is, the more attractive he is.
My dear Mr. Bingley is located furthest, and farest away.
viewed through lens of 13,000 miles, any man looks good!
Women don't need distance to look good..
I have found it usually takes just over half dozen or so beer, or half as many of spirit for me to become alluring.. and with each additional drink a man has, the better looking i become!
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#57494
02/20/2002 9:14 PM
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Has anyone heard "scoatch"
How about scoash? Move over a scoash..just a little bit.
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#57495
02/21/2002 3:02 AM
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Ladies, I think we will have to adopt the policy of angkot drivers, there is always room for one more. An angkot is a type of public transportation vehicle. See the picture here: http://indonesia.elga.net.id/indoway/angkot.jpg Easily holds 10-15 people plus the driver. Bingley
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#57496
02/21/2002 3:42 AM
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In Mexico they call them thangs "ruteras". They follow a set route, just like the buses and they fill them like a can of sardines  , but they are somewhat quicker than the buses.
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#57497
02/21/2002 4:12 AM
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angkot. Easily holds 10-15 people plus the driver
And from memory, will turn out to be one of the most *interesting rides of your life  it's not like you need to hang on to anything, you're so squished in there's no room to move.
Hev
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#57498
02/28/2002 4:13 PM
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How about scoash? Move over a scoash..just a little bit.
I recently heard that this word may have entered english from Korean -- and we are fortunate in that a Korean gentleman has recently joined us. soojin, can you help us here?
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#57499
02/28/2002 7:35 PM
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galumph
waddle
scamper
ambulate (perambulate, circumambulate)
totter
patter
scramble
skedaddle
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#57500
03/01/2002 12:33 AM
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gallumph
Is that really a word, or just another delightful Carrollian contrivance
propagated by Walt Kelly (and others)?
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#57501
03/01/2002 6:26 AM
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Scoash?
I don¡¯t know.
I have never heard of this before.
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#57502
03/01/2002 9:19 AM
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Stick with us, soojin, and you will hear LOTS of things you have never heard before .
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#57503
03/01/2002 12:58 PM
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I don't know. It's in M-W, though.
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#57504
03/01/2002 8:20 PM
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#57505
03/03/2002 6:39 PM
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Hop-scotching around is often used to imply 'jumping around erratically.'
And there's the saying that a good dancer can really polish the floor!"
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#57506
03/04/2002 12:43 AM
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And there's the saying that a good dancer can really polish the floor!
A friend of mine calls some songs "belt-buckle polishin' music". Grab your lady and just sorta sway together. [humming "Sleep Walk"-e]
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#57507
03/04/2002 12:58 PM
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And for some reason, thinking about polishing the floor makes me think of actors "dressing the stage"--which would be the blocking to make the stage look interesting in how the actors are placed there and how the sculpture changes as they move to different positions.
I love the part in "The Fantasticks" when Henry tells Mortimer (get this: one single old actor--one!), "Dress the stage, Mortimer! Don't forget to dress the stage!" That's just one of the funniest lines in theatre!
From the Starlight Ballroom,
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#57508
03/04/2002 1:34 PM
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dancin' expressions
The other expression for a really good dancer, or something you might say if you were really dancin' up a storm, is
'she could really cut a rug' or, 'man, we were really cuttin' the rug'.
This saying is actually more popular than polishin' the floor', but its association with danncing is not as obvious, since dancing rarely takes place on carpeted floors. Anyone know how cut a rug first became associated with dance?
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#57509
03/04/2002 3:01 PM
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I don't know about cutting the rug, but around here, if you "cut a block"--it means you go out cruising around and drinking all night long.
Safe in outer space,
OrB
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