Teapots

Eric Clyde

Message 28742 · 7 Dec 2001 16:29:02 · Fixed-width font · Whole thread

That hasn't happened here -- yet! Just don't suggest it out loud.

Maybe I'm showing my age, Chris, but I must admit I groan
when a few of our senior members start flapping their elbows
in Wild Geese!

Eric
----- Original Message -----
From: <Xxxxx1Xxxxxx@xxx.xxx>
To: <xxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxx.xxx>
Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2001 11:01 PM
Subject: Teapots

> In a message dated 12/06/2001 9:58:56 AM Eastern Standard Time,
> xxxxxx@xxxxxx.xxx writes:
> > I usually say "the formation that I'm not supposed to call teapots."
> > Indeed not. Why, the next thing you know the dancers will be imitating
the
> spout and handle of the teapots with their arms. ;-)
>
> We have an expression here also for the "teapots" that occur in some
5-couple
> dances like the Black Mountain Reel: two teapots and a samovar.
>
> Chris (in New York)
>