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This year the Dîner Spectacale for our girls' school is to be

entertained (?) by various sketches performed by the parents. Hopefully

this will be an improvement over last year when we employed (at some

considerable expense) a professional magician. Someone (me) suggested

that it would be a good idea to place the tables for our little

darlings at the front, right below the stage, so that they could see

the action better. This, it transpired, was something of an error of

judgement.

Not only was the Great ******* (name obscured to avoid falling fowl of

name & shame policy, but frankly the Great ******* is deserving not

only having that done to him, but tarring and feathering as well, which

if he ever turns up around here again could well happen - we keep a pot

of asphalt handy just in case) phobic about children, he could not

withstand even the mild heckling he was getting from the rowdies in CE2

("Hey Mister - you got a bogey up your nose you know!" That sort of

thing) and started hurling abuse back. Plus he was more-than-a-little

over the eight, and he was crap.

So this year, various shows are being got up by us. I am performing, in

the company of others who are fortunately able to sing, a cover of a

Patrick Bruel song ("La Place des Grands Hommes"), my wife is involved

in a sketch that involves several of the mothers dressed as school

girls (at least one of whom will be pregnant), and several of the

fathers will be dressing up as the Village People and performing YMCA

(we're currently squabbling over who gets to wear the leather).

The problem we have is, despite us all being of the right generation,

none of us have a clue about the choreography. I've had a scout over

the www but have not been able to turn up a video clip. Does anyone out

there either have a copy of the video or can suggest where I might find

one?

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You're kidding, right?

There isn't a day that goes by when that song is not being performed somewhere on French TV.

Everyone here can do it (except me)

I'm sure someone will be able to assist you, but whoever does so, please extract a promise of photos from jond, photos which will be posted here.    

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Isn't it just a matter of marching on the spot in a ridiculously over the top homage to Larry Grayson for the verses and then making the shapes of the letters with your arms and legs during the chorus?  Sounds easy, but I'm assuming you won't be doing this sober.  Could end up spelling SNCF.
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Oh sorry Jond, I was being flippant when clearly this is a serious matter.

I do swear though it is a very, very popular song here in 17

Wouldn't it be better if you had the track playing while you strutt your stuff, then you could just mime?

If you are computer whizzy you could download the song/video.

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[quote user="Tresco"]RayB,  long time no see. How are you?[/quote]

Hey, Super-T, nice of  you to ask!  The answer is - Good

days, bad days and too many of the latter.  But - still enjoying

life to the fullest.  I've been lurking but rarely had the

compulsion to jump in on any thread.

We have our best friends from Denver here the end of March for 10 days.  They come at least once a year.

Then, out of the blue, our 17 yr old petite-fille, who we don't even

really know, wants to spend her 18th birthday with us in May. We

haven't seen her since she was four. Talking to her over the years has

been like talking to a rock. Will be very interesting to say the

least.  Always necessary to have things to look forward to.

How are you doing?

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The Riff-Raff Element

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[quote user="Tresco"]

Oh sorry Jond, I was being flippant when clearly this is a serious matter.

I do swear though it is a very, very popular song here in 17

Wouldn't it be better if you had the track playing while you strutt your stuff, then you could just mime?

If you are computer whizzy you could download the song/video.

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Oh no, DEADLY serious. We've got the music (and shall definately be

miming), but, as I say, we could really do with a video of the

original. I would have thought that somewhere there would be a website

from which this video could be downloaded, but thus far I have been

unable to locate one, despite being highly imaginative in my use of

search parameters.

Ray - we did consider "the full monty" for about 15 seconds.

Personally, I have no particular qualms about exposing myself to our

local priest and the children's headmistress (I used to play rugby, you

see), but the other members (no pun intended) of the troupe felt that

perhaps the village isn't quite ready for it. I have decided to defer

to their judgement as they have lived here rather longer than I have.

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>>Ray - we did consider "the full monty" for about 15 seconds.

Personally, I have no particular qualms about exposing myself to our

local priest and the children's headmistress (I used to play rugby, you

see), but the other members (no pun intended) of the troupe felt that

perhaps the village isn't quite ready for it. I have decided to defer

to their judgement as they have lived here rather longer than I have.<<

Just trying to help! (g)  Now about this headmistress and you in a scrum . . . . . .

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So Jond, BIG question, which one are you going to be?

 My personal fav was the builder in the yellow hat, but I didn't know in my youth that they were all, not the least bit interested in girlies;but I led a very sheltered upbringing!

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[quote user="viva"]

So Jond, BIG question, which one are you going to be?

 My personal fav was the builder in the yellow hat, but I

didn't know in my youth that they were all, not the least bit

interested in girlies;but I led a very sheltered upbringing!

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Oh, I'm not fussed really - just as long as the outfit comes with a hat. Sunglasses would be nice too.

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Just back from rehersals! We never did get a video of this masterpiece, so we've had to make our own moves up, but they are hot hot hot!

The headmistress turned up just after we had finished this evening. She

does look worried, but then she's seen what the fathers of the school

have been capable of in the past.

Our only audience so far has been "Tigrou" the school rabbit. Despite

his lack of input, I think I can safely say that on the night I doubt

there will be a dry set of underwear left in the house. It may well be

the most embarassing evening of my life to date, and that's against

some pretty stiff competition...

Still, at least I got a costume with a hat.

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Well this post by Jond just takes the biscuit.

I can only pray (in my own godless way) that no TF'ers are looking in.

It's got sex, bunny abuse, (just because Tigrou didn't join in, doesn't mean the fluffy fella wasn't traumatised) 'wet' underwear, and a gratuitous mention of something 'stiff', which was thankfully left unexplained.

Any minute now, someone will post a picture of a fluffy kitten. It has to stop.

 

 

 

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