2006-07-23 02:45:11 · 10 answers · asked by D B 4 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
Wow scary thought lol :)
2006-07-23 02:47:14 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
The Hokey Pokey (known in the UK as the Hokey-Cokey) is a participation dance that became popular in the USA in the 1950s.
for the lyrics and music chk this:
http://www.niehs.nih.gov/kids/lyrics/hokey.htm
2006-07-23 02:56:26 · answer #2 · answered by skatygal 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
What an interesting idea...I think that the world would be a completely different place if the Hokey Pokey really IS what it's all about.
2006-07-23 02:48:10 · answer #3 · answered by Zαrα Mikαzuki 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
In the UK at least, it's called the Hokey Cokey (not sure if that's better or worse!)
The origins lie back in 17th century Puritan England when anything 'popish' or Roman Catholic was viewed with great suspicion and open to, at best, ridicule. The Hokey-Cokey, with its song and actions, is a mimicry of the Roman Catholic Mass.
In those days the priest faced the altar (not the people) and performed several actions as he consecrated the bread and wine at Holy Communion. The words of the service were in Latin. You put your left arm in ......etc was ridiculing the priest as he lifted his arms heavenward during the rite. You do the Hokey- Cokey and you turn around............ was when the priest turned to face the congregation with the host (consecrated bread) to offer it to them.
Ooooh, the Hokey-Cokey......... hokey-cokey is a corruption of the Latin words of consecration - Hoc est corpus: 'This is my body' (Note: many of the strange words and phrases of our language are corruptions of other languages introduced to our country over the years and few were educated enough to speak or understand Latin). Knees bend, arm stretch, ra-ra-ra....... knees bend is a ridicule of the genuflection (a kind of religious curtsey to the altar) of the priest, arm stretch is when he holds up his hands at the point of consecration in the service, and ra-ra-ra is just a mimicry of the Latin words and prayers they didn't understand.
Today, many people do not know the origin of the song/dance and just do it for fun, especially to teach children co-ordination (and their right from their left). Today, in England, the Roman Catholic Mass is said in English and is so similar to the Holy Communion of the Church of England that, sometimes, if you didn't know what church you were in............
[There is also the bad-taste joke... "what smells of wee and goes in and out? - answer: an old person doing the hokey cokey"]
2006-07-23 02:49:24 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Such a Complexity you ask,In Physics a question of time and motion and balance. In simple layman terms Who the Hell Knows!!!
2006-07-23 02:55:40 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Then everyone better get that dance down. Don't put your right hand in when it says left, you just throw everyone else off.
2006-07-23 02:48:39 · answer #6 · answered by mycathisses 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
is tthat the magical dance that makes all our wishes come true?
interesting.
2006-07-23 02:55:45 · answer #7 · answered by anissia 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I always thought it was. Are you saying that it isn't?
2006-07-23 02:49:00 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I like that idea.
2006-07-23 02:49:39 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Maybe we should do it more often
2006-07-23 02:48:19 · answer #10 · answered by dsgc05™ 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋