Dancing is typically thought of as a light hearted and fun exercise. Exempli gratia<\/em>2<\/sup><\/strong> “Hey, I love to dance, it just makes me feel great”. But many people forget that as recently as 1518, it could lead to mass hysteria and death<\/em>3<\/sup><\/strong>. Dancing began around 50,000 BC when early<\/em>4<\/sup><\/strong> man first started dating early<\/em>5<\/sup><\/strong> woman. Cinema at the time had become staid and uninspiring and young people were looking for a more exciting pastime<\/em>6<\/sup><\/strong>. The gunpowder was there, all it took was a match in the form of a primitive dance called the ‘kick’. The dance involved a simple motion of the leg upwards and forwards and that was the end of it. Teenagers gathered in their ones to take part in this and so was coined ‘teenage kicks’. <\/p>\n “Never trust spiritual leader who cannot dance.” – Mr. Miyagi<\/em><\/em>7<\/sup><\/strong> <\/p>\n But we arrive now at the winter of the post and still a thrust to the argument seems as unfortunately absent as an erection on your golden wedding anniversary<\/em>8<\/sup><\/strong>. You no longer dance. The leaves are falling off the trees and there is a quiet sadness in your eyes as you sit in your chairs and watch each other slowly die.<\/p>\n Yours disingenuously,<\/p>\n Footnotes<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/em>1<\/sup><\/strong> The internet.<\/p>\n <\/em>2<\/sup><\/strong> ‘e.g.’ or ‘for example’<\/p>\n <\/em>3<\/sup><\/strong> See Wikipedia article, The dancing plague of 1518<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/em>4<\/sup><\/strong> As in ‘with ears’.<\/p>\n <\/em>5<\/sup><\/strong> As in ‘like an earl’.<\/p>\n <\/em>6<\/sup><\/strong> Cinema in the early 50,000 BCs consisted mainly in staring at a rock. Only the French avant garde was so bold as to include such complicated allegory as the smashing of two rocks against each other.<\/p>\n <\/em>7<\/sup><\/strong> The Next Karate Kid, 1994<\/p>\n <\/em>8<\/sup><\/strong> Simile is often the shortest path to a joke.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" To some people dancing comes naturally. To me it comes supernaturally. That’s right, fasten your seat belts because this post is about to take a nose dive directly to a more academic style of prose. “I would believe only in … Continue reading ![](\"http:\/\/www.raphshirley.com\/images\/signature.png\")
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