3844 Tango while chewing gum?
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 20:00:41 +0900
From: astrid <astrid@RUBY.PLALA.OR.JP>
Subject: Re: Tango while chewing gum?
I can't say which I find more disgusting and disrespectful: people who chew
gum while dancing tango, or people who show up without showering and in
sweaty clothes. There are probably more of the former type I have seen, and
they seem to be under the erroneous impression that there is something chic
or cool about chewing gum during tango. They are quite mistaken. It creates
quite an absurd image ,concentrating hard on the moves, keeping your eyes
half closed, faking passion, and then, having your jaws grinding away for
hours on one chewing gum after another.
Astrid
who never dances with anyone who chews gum
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 13:15:20 +0100
From: Andrew RYSER SZYMAŃSKI
<arrabaltango@YAHOO.CO.UK>
Subject: Re: Tango while chewing gum?
Dear All,
For a few years now, I have now been handing out to
every new student a RED card which begins as follows:-
"Tango depends above all on developing a acute sensory
perception before we can effectively move into action.
The following activities will interfere with this:-
1. Eating
2. Drinking
3. Smoking
4. Mobiles
5. Talking
6. Chewing gum- try mints instead
7. Looking down at your feet
Having a shower in the preceding 12 hours will show
respect for your partner......."
I have had to, on occasions, explain the physiological
interference caused by often erratic mastication on
the masticator's perception as well as their
partner's. I can feel every movement of her jaw, and
find it difficult as a consequence to feel what she is
doing with her feet. After a short while ex-chewing
students realise they learn faster.
Of course, if you are insensitive it's OK to chew, but
in that case you must be a lousy dancer.
Most people chew gum because they are:-
1)insecure: it creates a barrier betweem them & the
rest of the world, same as a Walkman or an i-Pod
2)paranoid about their breath (hence the advice to try
mints).
Cheers,
Andy.
--- astrid <astrid@RUBY.PLALA.OR.JP> wrote:
> I can't say which I find more disgusting and
> disrespectful: people who chew
> gum while dancing tango, or people who show up
> without showering and in
> sweaty clothes. There are probably more of the
> former type I have seen, and
> they seem to be under the erroneous impression that
> there is something chic
> or cool about chewing gum during tango. They are
> quite mistaken. It creates
> quite an absurd image ,concentrating hard on the
> moves, keeping your eyes
> half closed, faking passion, and then, having your
> jaws grinding away for
> hours on one chewing gum after another.
>
> Astrid
> who never dances with anyone who chews gum
>
Andrew W. RYSER SZYMAQSKI,
16, Lancaster Road,
London, W11 1QP,
020-7221 4643
07944 128 739.
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Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 08:11:47 -0500
From: Michael Ditkoff <tangomaniac@CAVTEL.NET>
Subject: Re: Tango while chewing gum?
I can't dance women who chew gum. They throw me off beat by
syncopating their chewing (it's the mouth equivalent of
milonga traspie) or are just off beat period. They switch
from parallel chewing to cross chewing and back without my
leading them. (I don't do well when women backlead.) The
chewing sounds like a truck shifting gears as it descends a
steep hill. I'd rather pass.
Michael Ditkoff
Washington, DC
If forced to dance with gum chewers, I'll have to get ear
plugs.
> --- astrid <astrid@RUBY.PLALA.OR.JP> wrote:
>
> > I can't say which I find more disgusting and
> > disrespectful: people who chew
> > gum while dancing tango....> > Astrid
> > who never dances with anyone who chews gum
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 07:17:04 -0700
From: Rick Jones <rwjones52@YAHOO.COM>
Subject: Re: Tango while chewing gum?
--- Jonathan Thornton <obscurebardo@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> Now for something completely different.
>
> Do milongueros chew gum while they dance?
> Do you? Why or why not?
>
Not me. I'm still having difficulty walking and
chewing gum at the same time.
Rick Jones
Washington DC
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:40:14 -0400
From: seth <s1redh@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Tango while chewing gum? FORCED!?!
On 9/27/05, Michael Ditkoff <tangomaniac@cavtel.net> wrote:
>
>
> If forced to dance with gum chewers, I'll have to get ear
> plugs.
Forced?!? Why would you Tango with an ill-mannered chewing cow?
It's a matter of principle, not of technique...
Seth
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 11:04:33 EDT
From: Richard deSousa <Mallpasso@AOL.COM>
Subject: Re: Tango while chewing gum?
I wonder if Gerald Ford ever tried to tango... Nah... he couldn't walk and
chew gum at the same time either... ;-)
El Bandito de Tango
In a message dated 9/27/2005 07:17:50 Pacific Daylight Time,
rwjones52@YAHOO.COM writes:
--- Jonathan Thornton <obscurebardo@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> Now for something completely different.
>
> Do milongueros chew gum while they dance?
> Do you? Why or why not?
>
Not me. I'm still having difficulty walking and
chewing gum at the same time.
Rick Jones
Washington DC
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 11:56:53 -0500
From: Michael Ditkoff <tangomaniac@CAVTEL.NET>
Subject: Re: Tango while chewing gum? FORCED!?!
> On 9/27/05, Michael Ditkoff <tangomaniac@cavtel.net>wrote:
>
> >
> > If forced to dance with gum chewers, I'll have to get
> > ear plugs.
>
>
> Forced?!? Why would you Tango with an ill-mannered chewing
> cow? It's a matter of principle, not of technique...
>
> Seth
Seth:
Poor choice of words on my part. If I use cabececo, I won't
know she's chewing gum until it's too late and we're in the
embrace. I remember one woman who sounded like an Old
Johnson Fare Box on a New York City bus. For those who don't
know, passengers used to drop coins at the top. The
operator, after ensuring the correct amount, pushed down on
a lever that caused the coins to fall into the box. Inside
the box, the coins went around and around a count counter.
After the coins were counted, the coins exited the fare box.
The operator would put the coins in his coin changer to make
change. On today's NY buses, you use a magnetic farecard or
exact change. Many years ago, there were no exact change and
operators made change while driving the bus. And those were
the days BEFORE there was power steering. The most common
operator ailment was sore backs.
Michael Ditkoff
Washington, DC
Who can remember when 5th Avenue in New York was a TWO way
street
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 14:16:13 -0400
From: seth <s1redh@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Tango while chewing gum? FORCED!?!
Michael,
IMO If there's one reason to stop dancing after just one dance, or even in
its middle, chewing gum is one.
Why not have the courage to stand fast against bad-manners, at least at the
milonga, or maybe especially at the milonga, which should be an encounter
characterized by social gentility? Refusing a dance to an ill-behaved
would-be partner is also a satisfying, if futile, act of "giving it back to
them", to the ruffians around us....
Seth
On 9/27/05, tangomaniac <tangomaniac> wrote:
>
> > On 9/27/05, Michael Ditkoff <tangomaniac@cavtel.net>wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > If forced to dance with gum chewers, I'll have to get
> > > ear plugs.
> >
> >
> > Forced?!? Why would you Tango with an ill-mannered chewing
> > cow? It's a matter of principle, not of technique...
> >
> > Seth
>
>
**
>
> Seth:
> Poor choice of words on my part. If I use cabececo, I won't
> know she's chewing gum until it's too late and we're in the
> embrace. I remember one woman who sounded like an Old
> Johnson Fare Box on a New York City bus. For those who don't
> know, passengers used to drop coins at the top. The
> operator, after ensuring the correct amount, pushed down on
> a lever that caused the coins to fall into the box. Inside
> the box, the coins went around and around a count counter.
> After the coins were counted, the coins exited the fare box.
> The operator would put the coins in his coin changer to make
> change. On today's NY buses, you use a magnetic farecard or
> exact change. Many years ago, there were no exact change and
> operators made change while driving the bus. And those were
> the days BEFORE there was power steering. The most common
> operator ailment was sore backs.
>
> Michael Ditkoff
> Washington, DC
> Who can remember when 5th Avenue in New York was a TWO way
> street
>
