It's great on its own, or tipped over ice-cream (
hokey-pokey's actually New Zealand's second most popular flavour after vanilla) but I think it works best when dipped in a thick coating of good dark chocolate.
The basics: The conference's structure reflected the group's holistic approach, encompassing prayers, songs, storytelling sessions, and a round of the
Hokey-Pokey ("You put your whole self in/You put your whole self out...").
THE phrase may be a combination of the English "
hokey-pokey," meaning an ice- cream sold especially by Italian street vendors, and hat, which refers to the shape of the cone.
Brenda promised the horizontal
hokey-pokey if he wore a chicken suit and spoke French.
* Len playing the
hokey-pokey on his "violin" in those few seconds before the story begins;
Special topic songs include nursery rhyme songs, such as "Out the Window," and food songs, such as "Fried Ham." Some songs were even written to be used as games, for example, "London Bridge," "Ring Around the Rosie," "
Hokey-Pokey," and "Skip to my Lou." Many of these songs can be found on children's recordings or in music resource books.
And I can't zip down to the local karaoke bar and do the
hokey-pokey and sing "Yankee Doodle Dandy" because--there isn't any local karaoke bar.
Here are explanations of words from "hoist up" to "
hokey-pokey," with the words in between - "hoit" (hurt): "hoity-toity;" "hojack;" "hojase:" "hokey, by:" "hokey-dokey;" "hokey-dory."
They were reunited in
Hokey-Pokey (1912) and also appeared together in movies and on radio.
At one point the audience is urged to its feet to join the artistes in the
hokey-pokey. For some, the effect of so much really, really sincere kitsch might be akin to total immersion in a Norman Rockwell painting, but the show's implacable wholesomeness is spiced by the shrewd characterizations of the four performers (who also wrote the show's original music): Mike Craver, Mark Hardwick, Debra Monk, Mary Murfitt.
It's not that hard, and so much more sensual than the
Hokey-Pokey.
Here are explanations of words from "hoist up" to "
hokey-pokey," with the words in between - "hoit" (hurt); "hoity-toity;" "hojack;" "hojase;" "hokey, by;" "hokey-dokey;" "hokey-dory."
