Doing the Hokey Cokey 'could be hate crime' [the UK, where else?]

Telegraph.uk ^ | 21 Dec 2008 | Auslan Cramb

[jdsteel]

We call it the Hokey Pokey here in the ‘States.

[duckman]

Way to much time on their hands.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

If this is true, I have to admit its pretty amusing when I think about it. I won’t be able to go to mass without the song in my head.

[davisfh]

Perhaps I've been misinformed all these years but I could've sworn that the song title is "Hokey Pokey."

Amazing, isn't it that, if one searches diligently, evil can be found in anything. I'm beginning to believe that some people have just too damned much time on their hands.

[atomic_dog]

Critics claim that Puritans composed the song in the 18th century in an attempt to mock the actions and language of priests leading the Latin mass.

The sheet music is copyright 1942 and they don't let you copyright traditional music so methinks they doth protesteth too much (just like our own race hustlers here).

[sobieski]

Origen lost in the mists of time. Just like “The 12 Days of Christmas” and “O Come All Ye Faithful” which were songs to buck up the Catholics during the persecution by English Protestants. Which, by the way, made the Spanish Inquisition look positively mild.

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

Ping to over here!

We need the creator of “The Palm Beach Pokey” to help out!

[dangus]

The Hokey Pokey could land you in the UK Pokey?

[thesharkboy]

What if the hokey-pokey really is what it's all about?

[FrankR]

Is there ANYTHING that the press and the politicians DON't bitch about?

They're like a bunch of old people in a nursing home...nothing else to do but gossip and bitch all day long.

Most all of us played "Hokey Pokey" as kids, and I never saw it as anything but a fun game for kids to play. I was born and raised in the 50's in the South - the Bible Belt - and if there was anything "sacreligious" about it, you can bet it would have been banned way back then.

What's next? Is Polly Wolly Doodle going to be proven to be communist code for some evil deed?

[kbennkc]

We call it the Hokey Pokey here in the ‘States.

Isn't this what it is all about ?

[Menehune56]

I’m finding that to be the case as I get older.

[raccoonradio]

Bumper sticker I’ve seen: What If The Hokey Pokey IS
What It’s All About?

[Leftism is Mentally Deranged]

In other words, they can put a person in jail for singing a song without the slightest idea of its origins.

[VRWCmember]

Yes, it is the Hokey Pokey. And the man who wrote it died a few years ago. They had a terrible time trying to get him into the casket to prepare him for his burial — they’d put his left foot in and he’d put his left foot out...

[JennysCool]

Jimmy Buffett has a funny song to that effect.

[Paleo Conservative]

The Hokey Pokey could land you in the UK Pokey?

News from 1996

Sad News
With all the sadness and trauma going on in the world at the moment, It is worth reflecting on the death of a very important person, which almost went unnoticed last week. Larry LaPrise, the man who wrote "The Hokey Pokey" died peacefully at the age of 93. The most traumatic part for his family was getting him into the coffin. They put his left leg in. And then the trouble started.

[dangus]

Check your source. The sheet music was copyrighted in 1942, but the song was attested to, with lyrics, a century earlier. Not that this isn’t a silly fuss. My guess is it’s a few anti-religious leftists trying to claim they’re being sensitive to Catholics before they vote to imprison anyone who objects to homosexual propaganda.

[kbennkc]

Idaho postal worker ! It is all starting to making sense now .