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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...

Author: By David B. Lat, | Title: Finally, Elders Fired | 12/13/1994 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By David B. Lat, | Title: Finally, Elders Fired | 12/13/1994 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Failure of Verve | 5/17/1993 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: More Than Child's Play | 11/9/1992 | See Source »

...Tomahawk cruise missile, have privately concluded that some other important systems were maddeningly unreliable. Secret Navy memos disclose that shipboard communications computers, the key link to General Norman Schwarzkopf's headquarters, were dangerously slow and out of date. Crucial orders from Riyadh were transmitted to some naval vessels at pokey telex speed, often arriving in more than 20 separate pieces and taking up to six hours to be completed. (Personal computers found in many homes can transmit data 10 to 20 times as fast.) The delays left pilots with little time to study their missions before taking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Information-Age Logjams . . . | 4/8/1991 | See Source »

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