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WELCOME to my first HOKEY-POKEY Monday post!
On HOKEY-POKEY Mondays, I plan to post random pearls of nonsense information chased the prior week. I have a list of possibilities for HOKEY POKEY Monday, but reserve the right not to tell you yet. Why?
New ideas will NOT stop dropping by with casseroles and remember-me-in-your-dreams greeting cards.
This first post is an open invitation for guest bloggers from my Blogging-to-Build-Brand class (#WANA112), and any other blogger s who find the concept intriguing.
THE HOKEY POKEY TITLE IS ODD, you say?
I do have reasons for choosing it.
It’s a blog dance that—to me—represents unrestricted fun potential.
Plus, it’s the song that popped into my noggin shortly after I joined Kristen Lamb’s class. I noticed many of my classmates chose the sane route to the Kingdom of Glob.
They chose to learn how to blog effectively before launching.
I remembered how I felt with my first post.
I had no clue what to write about, or how it might be received.
My brain cells got stuck in a mud puddle in ACKland.
So, one drink thought led to another.
Why not give those classmates a chance to put their feet in the blog circle while they build their own platforms?
That produced a brain refrain of “put your right foot in, pull your right foot out, put your right foot in, and shake it all about…”
Quite inspirational.
Inspirational because I knew I wanted a platform to post bits of seemingly disjointed random information: quotes, factoids, pictures, videos, lists of pet peeves, phrase derivations, observations of RAKMs and RASMs in action, and…
other stuff.
EDITORIAL NOTE: RAKM’s (pronounced Rack-ems) are Random Act of Kindness Moments. RASMs (pronounced Razz-ems) are Random Act of Stupidity Moments.
The Hokey Pokey is fun with multiple moving parts. There is a connection there.
Somewhere.
On to the important business of the day…
HOKEY POKEY BLOG LAUNCHES with INVITATION to GUEST POST
After my EEEpiphany, I expanded the invitation to include all #WANA112 participants PLUS any other bloggers who want to hang out with me.
Think of it as a mock Ellen DeGeneres show. We’ll start with a dance. Guest bloggers get a seat in the chair. Hey! Need a whole column? You can be the star for the day!
Prefer a Q/A format? Send me your questions.
Puzzled for a topic? Scan the list of ideas. Borrow one of those, or keep going with “other stuff.”
Fair warning: If you come up with a random post theme that pops my kettle corn, you may receive an email or tweet: “Great idea! Can I steal the concept when you finish your post?”
Here are the limited guidelines and instructions:
- Tweet @gloriawrites by January 30th.
- There are NO RESTRICTIONS on promoting your own site in your blog post.
- No need to offer audience prizes, but—in case you’re curious—I like Whoopie Pies, White House/Black Market gift cards, and I do not yet own an iPad.
SOME RANDOM FACTOIDS ABOUT THE HOKEY POKEY
Random facts about this tradition found on Widepedia.
If you don’t believe me I don’t blame you, you can check the Wikepedia facts here.
- “…the inspiration for the song’s title that resulted, the hokey pokey, came from an ice cream vendor…calling out, “Hokey pokey penny a lump. Have a lick make you jump”. He changed the name to the “hokey cokey” at the suggestion of the officer who said that cokey, in Canada, meant “crazy” and would sound better.”
- “Some scholarsattributed the origin to a Shaker song titled Hinkum-Booby…” Note to self: Search for derivation and meaning of Hinkum-Booby.
There are different names for the song and dance by country.
The song we call Hokey Pokey in the U.S. goes by other names.
- Hokey-Cokey or Okey-Cokey (U.K.)
- Hokey-Tokey (New Zealand)
- Pokey-Pokey (a Canadian children’s game),
- Cokey-Cokey (also Canadian), and (my favorite)
- unconfirmed derivation from the Shaker song, Hinkum-Booby
ALL THIS HISTORY behind a dance we usually stumble through after imbibing the bubbly at wedding receptions? Who knew?
BONUS! The HOKEY POKEY is in GUINNESS BOOK of world records.
Congratulations to the IOWA HAWKEYES for nabbing the Guinness Book of World Records for an estimated 7,000 participants in the HOKEY POKEY on September 3, 2010. I love this particular video because it demonstrates that people of all ages can have fun and come together with a HOKEY POKEY.
And, isn’t that what it’s all about?
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I hope you enjoyed this history lesson on the HOKEY-OKEY-COKEY-POKEY-TOKEY-HINKUM-BOOBY.
THANKS FOR POPPING BY, AND STAYING LONG ENOUGH TO READ THIS SENTENCE. LEAVE A COMMENT, SO I KNOW YOU WERE HERE. OR, SHARE ONE OF YOUR FAVORITE FACTOIDS, OBSERVATIONS, QUOTES, OR LINKS IN THE COMMENTS SECTION.
Gloria Richard 
I absolutely love Matt Damon. My favorite Matt Damon movie is Good Will Hunting.He’s also pretty good as Jason Bourne. Oh…not the same guy? I always have fun reading your blog posts. You have the gift of snark. I have a “saved” post on my blog that is supposed to be snarky but comes across as slightly too weird for exposure. It’s about my shoes I put in the microwave. Anyway, that won’t be happening anymore because I just came home and popped dinner in the microwave and it doesn’t work now (unrelated to shoe activity). I needed some chuckles after that.
Brinda I am dying laughing. I now really really really want to read this post you are hoarding about your shoes in the microwave…that is, if you ever decide to go public with it!
I’m with Laird, but understand your reluctance to share the story, Brinda.
Since we’re on a Brin and Glo level, shoot me an email with the salient details.
Why?
Curiosity. That’s all. I have an interest in the woes of my friends. That’s all.
Really.
Gloria this is a great post AND a great idea! Sign me up!
EEE-HAW! Wish you lived close enough to kick it off with a video of us doing The Freeze to the Oakridge Boys version of Elvira. My husband has some polyester stuff stuck in the back of his closet. We could do this!
Gloria, what fun to know someone who is absolutely cracked right down the middle 🙂 How about a “hokey” on being left-handed, the south-paw, the devil’s hand maiden?? Anyway, this is the most fun I’ve had all day, whilst I while away my hours with a triple murder mystery. I think you don’t see the glass half full you see it overflowing. Thanks for this!!
So…
Florence is “in” for a LEFT HANDED hokey post? I see it right up there. [Rolling
eyesgaze up the page. I like to keep my eyeballs in my noggin rather than have them roll ’round the page.]While I slurped the glee spilling from my cup and into this blog, my brain churned for a resolution to THE BIG BAD BOSS antagonist thread I must weave into my plot-line.
The angst!
Can’t wait to see how this pans out… Should be very entertaining!
Thanks, Ellen. I’m sure the writers who’ve taken up the offer so far will produce EXCELLENT Hokey-Pokey posts.
Thanks for visiting.
Hinkumbooby.
Nope. Can not say that word without laughing.
…And that’s what it’s all about!
You WILL see factoids on the Hinkum-Booby in a future post. PLEASE don’t steal my glee by posting it on your site.
Remember,,,
I have PICTURES!
The hokey pokey takes me right back to every kid’s birthday party I ever attended. And yes, I inflicted the hokey pokey on my kids too. There’s just a short window of time that us parents can get away with stuff like that before the kids start rolling their eyes.
Hinkumbooby. You’re right, Sherry, gotta laugh!
“Inflicted” and “Hokey Pokey” do not belong in the same sentence, IMHO, Sharon.
Teens! What do they know?
You’ll see. Your kids will one day reclaim the glee of the Hokey Pokey,
Ha! The words always seem to escape me until I’ve had a few drinks, then I seem to know them perfectly. And I can sing. Boy, why can’t I sing this good when I’m sober? Really, I should make a record.
That’s what I though until mobile phones started having cameras …
Cheers!
Dang the new social media technology! We can’t get away with anything anymore.
Not even plucking nose hairs at red lights.
I do one helluva rendition of “Oh Holy Night” in my car.
Cheers! to you, too, Nigel. Can’t wait until we get another peek at all things with wings on your site.
I officially don’t have to do my sit ups for the day. You crack me up!
*grins* Holly. Glad you enjoyed it.
*furrowed brow* Why haven’t I been over to your site? Did I (gasp!) sign up using the RSS feed? Google Reader has NOT been on my Social Media radar lately.
Scurrying over now to say “hi” and sign up via email subscribe.
This is a great idea. I’d like to join the dance, but will have to come up with a topic.
I’m here! I’m here! *waves enthusiastically*
Gloria, you’ve officially been *tagged* over at my place! It’s my first time. Must play.
I have this itch to know what you eat for breakfast. Well, that smarts. I failed to ask this as one of my questions. Please do stop in and play if you want the world to know you believe in Muppets.