The Hokey Pokey Controversy

[MrBern]

FYI!

http://www.canada.com/topics/news/national/story.html?id=1202503

Theres a controversy that the nursery song HOKEYPOKEY is used in soccer games with dark undertones that taunt Catholics.

The songwriters son has come out saying its not about Catholicism, its about COCAINE & Canadian miners.
The Cokey Cokey.

Who knew?

 

[Pilgrim]

Oh..........

PLEEEEEEEEEASE!

It never fails to astound me the people who can find conspiracies and hidden messages in everything. I wonder if they spend their spare time wearing tinfoil hats and listening vigilantly for the black helicopters (you know they're always hovering just over the horizon).

Of course, I also remember the kerfluffle about "Puff, The Magic Dragon" in the 60's and 70's.

If you want to extrapolate enough, you can theorize a silly hidden message in anything.

If Jack Spratt could eat no fat, was he a speed addict? If his wife could eat no lean, was she hopelessly addicted to marijuana and therefore laying about the house all day? I SMELL A CONSPIRACY!!! ALERT THE MEDIA!!

And let's NOT speculate about what those Dwarves were mining (blood diamonds?) and why they kept an attractive young girl like Snow White around. Sordid, very sordid.

 

[Esme]

Aha!!

So that's what it's all about!!!!

 

[WildCelt]

And let's NOT speculate about what those Dwarves were mining (blood diamonds?) and why they kept an attractive young girl like Snow White around. Sordid, very sordid.

We don't need to. Rammstein already discovered it for us.

 

[MrBern]

hocus pocus connection

FYI

I was wondering what hte religious mockery was about...heres an account from Wiki:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hokey_Cokey

The Oxford English Dictionary suggests that the phrase "hokey cokey" ultimately comes from "hocus pocus", the traditional magician's incantation. However, the dictionary discounts suggestions that "hocus pocus" in its turn derives from a distortion of hoc est enim corpus meum ("this is my body" - the Latin words of consecration of the host at Eucharist, the point, at which according to traditional Catholic practice, transubstantiation takes place - mocked by Puritans and others as a form of "magic words"), noting that "The notion that hocus pocus was a parody of the Latin words used in the Eucharist, rests merely on a conjecture thrown out by Tillotson". The conjecture put forward by Tillotson reads "In all probability those common juggling words of hocus pocus are nothing else but a corruption of hoc est corpus, by way of ridiculous imitation of the priests of the Church of Rome in their trick of Transubstantiation". The Anglican Canon Matthew Damon, Provost of Wakefield Cathedral, West Yorkshire, has claimed that the dance as well comes from the Catholic Latin mass.[3] The priest would perform his movements with his back to the congregation, who could not hear well the words, nor understand the Latin, nor clearly see his movements. This theory led Scottish politician Michael Matheson in 2008 to urge police action "against individuals who use it to taunt Catholics.” This claim by Matheson was deemed ridiculous by fans from both sides of the Old Firm (the Glasgow football teams Celtic and Rangers) and calls have been put out on fans' forums for both sides to join together to sing the song on 27th Dec 2008 at Ibrox.[4]

 

[reetpleat]

Seems far fetched. But the hocus pocus explanation sounds plausible.

If it were really about mocking catholics, I would guess the words would go more like; "you stand up, then you kneel down, then you stand up, then you turn and shake some hands. At least that is what I remember from eight years of parochial school and mass.

 

[Miss Crisplock]

Er, and since they haven't been saying mass in Latin since 1963, or teaching Latin, taunts in Latin are going to annoy who exactly?:eusa_doh:

I say Hokey as well as Pokey.

PS. I used to go to Latin Mass (hard to find) and this is REALLY stretching it.