April 3, 2006, 12:39 p.m. (Message 44960, in reply to message 44958)
Bryan McAlister schrieb: > Actually this is a great analogy. One of the reasons that Scottish > Football is "not very good" these days is that kids nowadays dont kick > cans around on the street. Right. And you can't really expect a fresh kid to come into their first (RSCDS-style) dance class and join the branch demonstration team the next week any more than you can expect some kid who hasn't kicked *anything* in their lives to score three goals in the World Cup finals. In order to become a first-rate professional football player you have to *start* with kicking cans around the street and then actively *want* more and do something about it. In dancing, young people come to ceilidhs and get told by many that »this is the *real*, *fun* Scottish dancing, and RSCDS is just for arthritic killjoys who make you point your toes«, so I think it's likely that even if some of them (only some) hear a private little voice in their heads asking »is this really all there is?«, peer pressure ensures that they'd rather be seen dead than donning the soft ghillies. Anselm -- Anselm Lingnau, Frankfurt, Germany ..................... xxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxx.xxx And whatever you do, never, ever, play Trivial Pursuit against a reference librarian. -- Jim Frost