1704  Patternitis, Woodenitis, and other itises found in tango

Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2003 10:54:10 -0500
From: Stephen Brown <Stephen.P.Brown@DAL.FRB.ORG>
Subject: Patternitis, Woodenitis, and other itises found in tango

A preliminary and incomplete list

Patternitis--dancing tango by rotely reproducing patterns

Backwarditis--insisting on taking steps against the line of dance

Stageitis--dancing in a way that is only appropriate for the stage at a
milonga

Handitis--leading with one's hands

Woodenitis--dancing tango without regard to the music

Wouldn'titis--refusing most invitations to dance, whether made verbally or
via eye contact

Goldenitis--dancing only to tango music from the golden era

Modernitis--dancing only to contemporary tango music

Bozoitis--an inability to refrain from acting like a clown at milongas

Ochoitis--leading repeated ochos or a follower executing repeated ochos
without a lead

Veronitis--imagining oneself to be Pablo Veron

Plebitis--imaginging oneself to be Milena Plebs

Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2003 12:24:29 EDT
From: Mallpasso@AOL.COM
Subject: Re: Patternitis, Woodenitis, and other itises found in tango

How about "crashitis" - repeatingly crashing into others because the leader
is looking down rather than watching where he's going? ;-)

El Bandito de Tango





In a message dated 8/15/2003 09:15:11 Pacific Daylight Time,
Stephen.P.Brown@DAL.FRB.ORG writes:

> Subj: [TANGO-L] Patternitis, Woodenitis, and other itises found in tango
> Date: 8/15/2003 09:15:11 Pacific Daylight Time
> From: <A HREF="mailto:Stephen.P.Brown@DAL.FRB.ORG">Stephen.P.Brown@DAL.FRB.ORG</A>
> To: <A HREF="mailto:TANGO-L@MITVMA.MIT.EDU">TANGO-L@MITVMA.MIT.EDU</A>
> Sent from the Internet
>
>
>
> A preliminary and incomplete list
>
> Patternitis--dancing tango by rotely reproducing patterns
>
> Backwarditis--insisting on taking steps against the line of dance
>
> Stageitis--dancing in a way that is only appropriate for the stage at a
> milonga
>
> Handitis--leading with one's hands
>
> Woodenitis--dancing tango without regard to the music
>
> Wouldn'titis--refusing most invitations to dance, whether made verbally or
> via eye contact
>
> Goldenitis--dancing only to tango music from the golden era
>
> Modernitis--dancing only to contemporary tango music
>
> Bozoitis--an inability to refrain from acting like a clown at milongas
>
> Ochoitis--leading repeated ochos or a follower executing repeated ochos
> without a lead
>
> Veronitis--imagining oneself to be Pablo Veron
>
> Plebitis--imaginging oneself to be Milena Plebs
>

Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2003 20:19:01 -0700
From: Alex <alejandro.delmonte@NTLWORLD.COM>
Subject: Re: Patternitis, Woodenitis, and other itises found in tango

I'd like to add more logs to the fire with the following one, as the
flipside of "Wouldn'titis: refusing most invitations to dance, whether made
verbally or
via eye contact".

Gotohellitis: what a proud tanguero thinks after a woman declines his
invitation to dance with him on the dubious grounds that she's tired.

Alex