completely OT: hockey wives

Posted by Susan Hartman on April 3, 2008, 10:27 am

Okay, Ellice -

Now we'll really know what keeps you so busy, LOL!

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080402.wmvp02/BNStory/Entertainment/

(Do you think we'll see those "hockey wives" doing needlework?)

Sue

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Posted by Cheryl Isaak on April 3, 2008, 3:29 pm

On 4/3/08 10:27 AM, in article
xP5Jj.22752$pm2.4481@en-nntp-04.dc1.easynews.com, "Susan Hartman"

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Maybe! I might have to watch that - at least once.
C

Posted by Dawne Peterson on April 9, 2008, 2:47 am

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uff da---Elizabeth, you have caused more spilt coffee for me than anyone
else on this group I think.

Perhaps she was just thinking that the polka, properly done, is very
aerobic. As done in rural Saskatchewan, it qualifies as a martial art.
Dawne

Posted by Karen C in California on April 9, 2008, 6:04 am

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SPEW!!!!!!!!!!!!

I needed that!

The only thing lethal about our polka was that I had been taught to do
the Polish version and my partner had been raised on the German version,
so until the dance coach clarified that *he* was doing it "wrong", there
was a lot of stepping on toes and swearing at each other.

The tango on the other hand ... my boyfriend was showing my dance
partner how to do it with PASSION (the Germans do it as a march,
hup-two-three-four, reverse direction-two-three-four) and dipped me with
such enthusiasm that my head hit the floor. Hard German head, no risk
of fracture. Where it got lethal was my dance partner assaulting my
boyfriend for not taking proper care of me. :)

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Posted by ellice on April 9, 2008, 10:25 am

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Good thing I don't have my coffee in front of me. DH's family is Lithuanian
(IIRC his parents are the generation born here) and evidently when the kids
were young, they recall some rousing "polka fests." That said, as I've
spoken about his difficult older sisters, the "crazy one" in particular. At
the last family wedding, she (who is about 5'2.5" and maybe a size 4 petite,
is wearing a cordorouy, Llbean or lands end type shirtwaist dress - in a
size "L" at least, down to near her ankles, and kind of Mary Jane style
shoes, with a maybe 1.5" heel - big fat (not the stylish chunky) which we
referred to as "nun" shoes, and her hair pulled straight back in a pony tail
off the top back (a la Barbie 1963). Suddenly, we look up - as a polka
starts, and she grabs one of the cousins, and whoosh - is whirling and
stomping up a storm around the dance floor - like a Bizarro World Lawrence
Welk episode. We almost spewed our drinks - as someone (perhaps DH) came
out with "look - it's like Amish girls gone wild" - thinking of those spring
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Thanks for sharing!

Ellice

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