9 Replies to “Friday Video: Contemporary dance explained in 15 moves [Darleen Click]”

1. palaeomerus says:

   December 27, 2013 at 1:28 pm

   Well that was pleasantly angry yet funny. Essentially it’s doing for dance what Richard Cheese does to old pop music with Vegas Lounge/big-band jazz/swing styling. (And yeah I know that Pat Boone actually did it first back in the 80’s and the 80’s pretty much didn’t get it because MTV was not about imagination or recognizing that kids look stupid to older people and they laugh at kids in a not nice way, and no, for the most part they don’t wish they were ‘cool like the kids’ at all.)

2. Ernst Schreiber says:

   December 27, 2013 at 1:49 pm

   Archie Bunkerism at it’s worst finest, eh?

3. ThomasD says:

   December 27, 2013 at 4:57 pm

   Awesome. I have a dancer ex that I’m sending this to immediately.

   Oh, and A&E caved.

   http://xfinity.comcast.net/articles/news-general/20131227/US–TV-Duck.Dynasty/?cid=hero_media

4. 11B40 says:

   December 27, 2013 at 6:58 pm

   Greetings:

   I can’t help but wonder if Contemporary Eric has ever worn out a pair of slippers in his whole thus far life.

5. palaeomerus says:

   December 28, 2013 at 2:30 am

   Is it it “Bich” like the Vietnamese name (means Jade as you will very quickly be told) ? Vietnamese can render some fantastically awful names in English.

   I knew a guy once named Dem Phuc. We called him Dennis. And there was a woman named Hue Hoa Thuy which isn’t nasty but sounded pretty odd when spoken. And another woman named Thu Thi Chi.

6. serr8d says:

   December 28, 2013 at 8:37 am

   This.

7. Darleen says:

   December 28, 2013 at 10:09 am

   pala

   Vietnamese can render some fantastically awful names in English.

   I used to volunteer at my daughters’ grade school. One of the secretaries was helping a Vietnamese family register their son into the school.

   She looked at his name and said, “How about we use his middle name as his first name?”

   So Nguyen Vu was registered … his given name was Phuc

8. Drumwaster says:

   December 28, 2013 at 10:24 am

   I am reminded of a story I read somewhere, many years ago…

   An elementary school had all of its students wear little plastic placards with their first name on it around their necks for the first day of school, to make it easy for everyone to get to know each other. One student’s nametag read “Apple Stand”, but this being the 1970s, and the prevalence of the various communes made anything possible, so the teachers and other students referred to him as “Apple Stand” all day long.

   When the first day ended, and little Apple Stand couldn’t find his bus among all of the yellow farting behemoths crowding the curb, one teacher remembered that the student’s bus stop was printed on the back of the nametags, so she reached down to turn over Apple Stand’s nametag, where she saw it read “David.”

9. palaeomerus says:

   December 28, 2013 at 2:08 pm

   Yeah Dem Phuc might have been Phuc Dem in the western style, I was never sure which was his given name. He did tell me once that Phuc means blessing. But we just called him Dennis. When he interviewed me for hire I looked at his name tag and he went pale and grim and said “Hey, just call me Dennis,okay?” and I thought about how rough growing up being called that must have been and resolved NEVER to even think about the phonetics of his name when around work. He had a very slight accent and was my age so I’d guess he probably came over when the war ended in ’74.

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