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But Haeckel was an evil proto-Nazi horrid person!
And he totally misunderstood Darwin and screwed up German evolutionary biology for 2 generations. (Though Ernst Mayr & Willi Hennig put them back on the path of righteousness)
Bloody good artist though.
This is the first thread I ever started on the Ship to get to 100 posts!
Does that say something about the nature of the Universe.
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Laudate Dominum
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About the Hokey Pokey question:
I have absolutely no sources, this is just what I was told. "Hokey Pokey" derives from "hocus pocus" and we all know that comes from people who made fun of the Latin words of the consecration at Mass. In which case, at least in the view of Roman Catholics, the "Hokey Pokey" actually is what it's all about. But I could be wrong. ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
At any rate, I've absolutely no idea why ya'll seem to think the word is "cokey."
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Willyburger
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Seen this morning: The road to Hell is paved with Liberals.
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Golden Key
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quote:
Originally posted by Willyburger:
Seen this morning: The road to Hell is paved with Liberals.
Ah, but that means that the liberals won't be *going* to hell--only those conservatives, running roughshod over them.
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Willyburger
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ken
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Originally posted by Laudate Dominum:
About the Hokey Pokey question:
I have absolutely no sources, this is just what I was told. "Hokey Pokey" derives from "hocus pocus" and we all know that comes from people who made fun of the Latin words of the consecration at Mass. In which case, at least in the view of Roman Catholics, the "Hokey Pokey" actually is what it's all about. But I could be wrong.
At any rate, I've absolutely no idea why ya'll seem to think the word is "cokey."
I have no sources either, but on the modern rule of thumb that randomly accquired Internet sites are the source of all truth, I quote a small extract from:
take our word for it
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The two are indeed thought to be related, it being suggested that they both derive from hocus pocus (see Issue 61 for a discussion of the latter). You, and many others, may be surprised to find that hokey pokey, spelled hoky poky also, did not originally apply to a dance. Instead, it meant "trickery, double dealing" when it first appeared in writing in the middle of the 19th century. Hanky panky meant the same thing when it made its appearance at about the same time. However, in the U.S. it was taken a step further, to mean "fooling around (sexually), especially in infidelity", an extension of the "trickery" notion.
While most etymologists seem to agree that hokey pokey and hanky panky derive from hocus pocus, slang expert Eric Partridge seemed to like the explanation that hanky panky derives from handkerchief, which magicians often used in their acts of prestidigitation.
The Hokey Pokey dance originated in England where it was (and still is) called the Hokey Cokey. It was appropriated by an American G. I. who turned it into a musical hit when he returned to the U. S. It is still heard, especially in roller skating rinks, today.
Does the US version go
"Ra! Ra! Ra!"
at the end?
[Deleted your duplicity.]
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