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"extinct" within 20 years
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertain...re/7812300.stm
because young people are too embarrassed to take part --shame on you young people ,whats wrong with it - you even get a uniform [sort of] 
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05-01-2009, 20:48
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Re: "extinct" within 20 years
dunno about the young being embarrassed - i know i wouldn't even contemplate morris dancing!!!
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05-01-2009, 20:55
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"There is still time for new blood to get ready for the spring fertility offensive," said the ring's Paul Reece.
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Some how I don't think that wearing bells round their knees and waving a stick in the air would be how most young men would approach a spring fertility offensive. Well not around where I live in Manchester. 
On second thoughts, they already wave the sticks. It's the bells that would lose them their street cred. 
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05-01-2009, 20:57
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Re: "extinct" within 20 years
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Some how I don't think that wearing bells round their knees and waving a stick in the air would be how most young men would approach a spring fertility offensive. Well not around where I live in Manchester. |
Well the waving stick's in the air part seems to happen every night in the wirral.
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05-01-2009, 20:58
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Re: "extinct" within 20 years
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Originally Posted by soup dragon
dunno about the young being embarrassed - i know i wouldn't even contemplate morris dancing!!!
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Some of us do - and have been for over 20 years 
I think the Ring are being melodramatic. There are plenty of young Morris dancers about. We even have one 19 year-old in our own side who has been with us since she was 12.
There are 3 Morris organisations: the Morris Ring, Open Morris and the Morris Federation. Each has a slightly different aim and outlook. The Ring is more 'old fashioned' and purist and, at least used to, believe that The Morris should be danced only by men. Small wonder then that their numbers are dwindling!
http://www.themorrisring.org/
http://www.open-morris.org/
http://www.morrisfed.org/
PS. we never, ever refer to ourselves as a Morris 'troupe'!
If you fancy having a go there is almost certainly a side near you:
http://www.morrisdancing.org/finder/sfcgi.html
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05-01-2009, 21:00
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Re: "extinct" within 20 years
Altis.
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Some of us do - and have been for over 20 years
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You can not make a post like that without photos.
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05-01-2009, 21:06
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Altis. You can not make a post like that without photos. |
Guess which one is me!
http://warringtonbears.org.uk/middlewich/index.htm
You'll need to allow Javascript
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05-01-2009, 21:11
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Re: "extinct" within 20 years
I with Sir Thomas Beecham on Morris Dancing.
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05-01-2009, 21:18
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I with Sir Thomas Beecham on Morris Dancing.
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would you care to list the things you have tried once 
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is it peter pantsless ?
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05-01-2009, 21:20
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It was dark, I had been drinking lots of  , and I didn't know she was a WRAC - that's all I'm saying........
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05-01-2009, 21:36
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That is not playing fair.!
None of the dancers seem to be based in Warrington so I guess you are the guy who split his pants as a result of an over exuberant bout of stick shaking. Either that or you are wearing a frock.
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05-01-2009, 21:45
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Re: "extinct" within 20 years
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That is not playing fair.!
None of the dancers seem to be based in Warrington so I guess you are the guy who split his pants as a result of an over exuberant bout of stick shaking. Either that or you are wearing a frock.
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I happen to know altis is a very tall person, which tends to rule out the frock wearers
I'm guessing the one with the overly exposed gusset, as well
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05-01-2009, 21:52
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Re: "extinct" within 20 years
All got it in one!
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05-01-2009, 21:58
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Re: "extinct" within 20 years
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All got it in one!
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this Morris dancing seems to involve a lot of pubs, is alcohol a key factor in the [dance/ stick waving]
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05-01-2009, 22:29
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Re: "extinct" within 20 years
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this Morris dancing seems to involve a lot of pubs, is alcohol a key factor in the [dance/ stick waving] |
For some it is but for many of us it's all about the thrill of a performance, the fun, the cameradery, the exercise and the tradition.
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Or, for ultimate embarrassment, try this:
http://uk.youtube.com/results?search_query=ringheye
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