Word: pokey
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DIED. LARRY LAPRISE, 83, songwriter; in Boise, Idaho. LaPrise was playing ski lodges when he co-concocted the ideal entertainment for hyperactive children and rhythm-impaired adults: The Hokey Pokey (1949), which had a nation putting various extremities in, out and about. Big-band and heavy-metal versions followed--as LaPrise was hokey-pokeyed out of a fortune. Having sold his rights for a song, he became a postal worker...
Second, how exactly does Elders want us to teach masturbation? There are a variety of methods from which to choose. I suggest using games and songs. The following should be sung to the tune of the "Hokey Pokey...
...your right hand here, you put your left hand there. You put your sex organ here--and you shake it all about. You do the hokey pokey and you turn yourself around--that's what it's all about...
...began in December 1980 in Miami, where Robert Darias, then 46, faced a winter of discontent. A Cuban exile, he had spent 20 months in Fidel Castro's prison camps after being captured during the ill-fated Bay of Pigs invasion. He had also served time in an American pokey for tax fraud, and still owed the Internal Revenue Service $200,000. Darias, though, did have a couple of highly marketable assets. His gentlemanly, businesslike demeanor inspired trust, and he knew some things about drug dealing in South Florida's Cuban community. And so, out of financial desperation, he volunteered...
...children's classics all done up in Little Richard's flagrantly flamboyant style. He turns On Top of Spaghetti into a rhythm-and-blues lament, raps his way through If You're Happy and You Know It and performs a funky, fanny-wiggling version of The Hokey Pokey...