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the kids were participating in a pagan fertility ritual
In the movie The Wicker Man the school kids explain the significance of the Maypole dance to the visiting mainlander policeman.
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Yet the police refused to incarcerate the bloke. Certainly there's no arrest for the wicker.
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"I want my May pole. I want my May pole."I wouldn't touch that one with a ten foot.....!  The Only WO'N!
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Dear WO'N: What you were supposed to be teasing for was "I want my Maypo" a long since lost cereal.
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Dear Dr. Bill: You seem to have embarked on some poleless polemic about polenta being the poleward thrust of the pun on pole...are you attempting to polarize this conversation with polistic introspection? I think I smell a polecat!  The Only WO'N!
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Dear WO'N: your mouth should be lavaged with a big bowl of Maypo.
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I can hear you at the breakfast table, "I want my May pole. I want my May
pole."Actually, Ted, it wasn't the breakfast table, but the bed, as I cursed that nearsighted moyle. 
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Hysterical Note: May 1 1624. The May Pole at Mare Mount in what is now Quincy Thomas Morton and otheres set up a May Pole engaged in drinking and dancing with Indian women and celebrated "The Feast of the Roman Goddes Glora, or the beastly practices of the Madd Bacchinalians" according to Plymouth governor William Bradford (my ancestor) Morton was deported to England.
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It was years before I figured out what my father meant when he said at a briss the rabbi gets the fee but the tip goes to the moyle.
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Here is a URL where you can learn about "Briss" and "moyel". The only thing that is not clear TEd. there must be two tips involved. What happens to the one the moyel removes? http://chutzpah.homestead.com/files/dictionary.html
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