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- Subject: Re: Why I won't "dance" (was Re: Why I read a.s.a.r.)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.163438.17846@news.cs.brandeis.edu>
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- References: <1993Jan17.205855.11476@dcs.qmw.ac.uk> <C10tJ8.HD0@demon.co.uk> <1993Jan18.220831.13448@dcs.qmw.ac.uk>,<1993Jan19.204710.2964@infodev.cam.ac.uk>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 16:34:38 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan19.204710.2964@infodev.cam.ac.uk>, gdb15@grebe.cl.cam.ac.uk (Guy Barry) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan18.220831.13448@dcs.qmw.ac.uk> arodgers@dcs.qmw.ac.uk (Angus H Rodgers) writes:
- >>
- >>What I *really* fear is being expected to be able to dance. I'll just
- >>have to hope that someone will get me really drunk, and force me onto
- >>the floor ... I'll rephrase that ... oh, never mind.
- >
- >Stand up for yourself! I've been equally intimidated in my time by
- >the "anyone who doesn't like dancing is a boring nerd who doesn't know
- >how to enjoy himself" crowd. In vain do I try to convince them by
- >finding equally valid ways of enjoying myself, like singing along with
- >someone's Manuel de Falla tape, playing table-tennis with a balloon,
- >or trying to start a game of "Just a Minute" -- they haven't the
- >faintest idea of how to join in with anything. No, no, no, you've all
- >got to get together in a room with some awful thump-thump-thump racket
- >going on and shake yourself about in the most visually unappealing
- >fashion you can think of. And you must at all times behave as though
- >you were the only person on the dance floor. You mustn't look at
- >anyone, or touch anyone, or interact in any fashion. When someone
- >says "Do you want to dance with me?" it actually means "Do you want to
- >stand two feet away from me and totally ignore me?"
- >
- >Ooooh! The more I think about it, the more I hate it. Well I can
- >proudly say that I have steadfastly refused to get involved with
- >any of this nonsense. Of course, nobody invites me to their
- >parties any more...
- >
- >
- >--
- >Guy Barry, University of Cambridge | Phone: +44 (0)223 334757
- >Computer Laboratory | Fax: +44 (0)223 334678
- >New Museums Site, Pembroke Street | JANET: Guy.Barry@uk.ac.cam.cl
- >Cambridge CB2 3QG, England, UK | Internet: Guy.Barry@cl.cam.ac.uk
-
- In school I always found that when I attended parties there would be a number
- of (usually) loud and obnoxious people in the middle of the floor "partying",
- and there would be a few individuals sort of washed up along the sides of the
- room. The latter were always more fun to be with and talk to. I still talk to
- some of them. Don't really remember who was in the middle anymore.
-
- -Ximena
-