The Deer Hunter - dancing

On Oct 26, 6:07 pm, Richard Fangnail
wrote:
> What do you call the type of Russian dancing they were doing at the
> wedding reception? Or is it just called Russian dancing?

The Mamooshka!
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Marv Soloff wrote:
> Richard Fangnail wrote:
>> What do you call the type of Russian dancing they were doing at the
>> wedding reception? Or is it just called Russian dancing?
>>
>
> I think you are referring to the "kazachka" or Cossack dance. Arms crossed,
> squatting, kicking the legs out from under in time with the music. Tough
> to do
> unless you are in top shape.
>
> Marv

Elsewhere called tchotchek.

Always reminds me of the scene from one of Sellers' Clouseau movies
where he tries it and splits his pants open.

Miki
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Miki Kocic wrote:
> Marv Soloff wrote:
>> Richard Fangnail wrote:
>>> What do you call the type of Russian dancing they were doing at the
>>> wedding reception? Or is it just called Russian dancing?
>>>
>>
>> I think you are referring to the "kazachka" or Cossack dance. Arms
>> crossed,
>> squatting, kicking the legs out from under in time with the music.
>> Tough to do
>> unless you are in top shape.
>>
>> Marv
>
> Elsewhere called tchotchek.
>
> Always reminds me of the scene from one of Sellers' Clouseau movies
> where he tries it and splits his pants open.

How about the "dignity, always dignity" sequence at the beginning of
_Singin' in the Rain_ when Don and Cosmo in loud checked suits are
squatting, kicking, "playing" violins, and singing "Fit as a Fiddle" all
at the same time?

--
Frank in Seattle
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On Oct 26, 2:36?pm, Marv Soloff wrote:
> I think you are referring to the "kazachka" or Cossack dance. Arms crossed,
> squatting, kicking the legs out from under in time with the music. Tough
> to do
> unless you are in top shape.

You noticed only Walken ( a hoofer) among the featured players did it.
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On Oct 26, 6:10?pm, "Frank R.A.J. Maloney" wrote:
> How about the "dignity, always dignity" sequence at the beginning of
> _Singin' in the Rain_ when Don and Cosmo in loud checked suits are
> squatting, kicking, "playing" violins, and singing "Fit as a Fiddle" all
> at the same time?

That must have been a pleasant rehearsal.
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On Oct 26, 11:36 am, Marv Soloff wrote:
> Richard Fangnail wrote:
> > What do you call the type of Russian dancing they were doing at the
> > wedding reception? Or is it just called Russian dancing?
>
> I think you are referring to the "kazachka" or Cossack dance. Arms crossed,
> squatting, kicking the legs out from under in time with the music. Tough
> to do
> unless you are in top shape.
>
> Marv

What do you call it when you jump up and touch your toes to your
hands?
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Richard Fangnail wrote:
> On Oct 26, 11:36 am, Marv Soloff wrote:
>> Richard Fangnail wrote:
>>> What do you call the type of Russian dancing they were doing at the
>>> wedding reception? Or is it just called Russian dancing?
>> I think you are referring to the "kazachka" or Cossack dance. Arms crossed,
>> squatting, kicking the legs out from under in time with the music. Tough
>> to do
>> unless you are in top shape.
>>
>> Marv
>
> What do you call it when you jump up and touch your toes to your
> hands?
>

Being goosed.

--
Bill Anderson

I am the Mighty Favog
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On Oct 26, 10:07 am, Richard Fangnail
wrote:
> What do you call the type of Russian dancing they were doing at the
> wedding reception? Or is it just called Russian dancing?

You call it Russian folk dancing.

One of the dances they do is called Troika, referring to sledges/
carriages drawn by three horses.
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Richard Fangnail burped up warm pablum in


> On Oct 26, 11:36 am, Marv Soloff wrote:
>> Richard Fangnail wrote:
>> > What do you call the type of Russian dancing they were doing at the
>> > wedding reception? Or is it just called Russian dancing?
>>
>> I think you are referring to the "kazachka" or Cossack dance. Arms crossed,
>> squatting, kicking the legs out from under in time with the music. Tough
>> to do
>> unless you are in top shape.
>>
>> Marv
>
> What do you call it when you jump up and touch your toes to your
> hands?

Six weeks in the hospital with intense back pain.

--
Tris Orendorff
[ Anyone naming their child should spend a few minutes checking rhyming slang and dodgy sounding
names. Brad and Angelina failed to do this when naming their kid Shiloh Pitt. At some point, someone at
school is going to spoonerise her name.
Craig Stark]
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In article , David Oberman wrote:

: John Simon once said of Ursula Andress: "Her name always sounded like
: a spoonerism to me."

Presumably because he assumed that his readers would not have read _Mad_
magazine, which where I first saw the joke made.

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schultr.TakeThisOut@mail.biu.ack.il (Richard Schultz) wrote:

>Presumably because he assumed that his readers would not have read _Mad_
>magazine, which where I first saw the joke made.

How do you know when Simon made the remark?







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In article , David Oberman wrote:
: schultr.TakeThisOut@mail.biu.ack.il (Richard Schultz) wrote:

:>Presumably because he assumed that his readers would not have read _Mad_
:>magazine, which where I first saw the joke made.
:
: How do you know when Simon made the remark?

I don't, but I think that the writers for _Mad_ magazine at the time
were cleverer than Simon.

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Opinions expressed are mine alone, and not those of Bar-Ilan University
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