2 Oct
2008
2 Oct
'08
6:37 p.m.
LOL
I am, alas, married to an incorrigible punster, and I suffer, even when the
bad puns are of my own making. I can see that you must enjoy creating such
suffering yourself.
I must apologize to Sargon, because I thought his sentence was ["poussette"
does _not_ come from the verb "pousser"] instead of ["poussette"
_does_ come
from the verb "pousser"], hence my strange answer. He should take pride,
however, in the fact that I mentioned the baby carriage last night at one of
our Calling Parties right after someone had taught the poussette in "The
Physical Snob" (we are learning both contra and English). The crowd went
"oooooh!" in a most satisfying way.
And Alan, thank you for all you do in helping us contraphiles become
anglophiles.
M
E
On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 6:00 PM, Alan Winston - SSRL Central Computing <
winston(a)slac.stanford.edu> wrote:
Martha wrote:
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Thanks for the linguistic update! You don't
suppose baby carriages are
called "poussettes" because they are...pushed... do you?
I'm just surprised no one took me to task for
my bad pun on "poulet".
We were too chicken to give you any trouble.
-- Alan
On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 4:13 PM, Sargon de Jesus
<sargondj(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
> Just a quick side note,
"poussette" does come from the verb "pousser"
> (push)
> in French, but the term probably comes from the word poussette itself,
> which
> is a baby carriage. I think is a rather nice image for what goes on
the
> figure. And it's a fun little tidbit to
share with the dancers too!
:)
>
> -Sargon
>
> On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 12:00 PM, <callers-request(a)sharedweight.net>
wrote:
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> > Message: 2
> > Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 14:13:33 -0500
> > From: "Martha Edwards" <meedwards(a)westendweb.com>
> > Subject: Re: [Callers] name of dance
> > To: "Caller's discussion list" <callers(a)sharedweight.net>
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> > Drat! I only saw the first post. Sorry for being late to the dance
and
> > jumping in. It's still got strange
timing, not that it matters, since
the
> > dance is so flowy.
> >
> > In a poussette, someone "pushes" (french: poussez) and someone pulls
> > (not-french: poulet :-). In Joyride, the woman pushes, or the man
pulls,
> > taking his partner with him. The
couples lead out four steps, then,
> > slightly
> > to the left, back in four steps (with the woman backing up) to trade
> places
> > with the other couple in the set of four.
> >
> > There are other poussettes, like the draw poussette, where the man
(or
> the
> > woman) keeps on backing up while the couples trade places, rather
like
a
> > toy
> > train going around the christmas tree.
> >
> > M
> > E
> >
> > On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 11:33 AM, Tom Hinds <twhinds(a)earthlink.net>
> wrote:
> >
> > > I just learned a great contra that has great flow. I'd like to
know
if
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> A1 gypsy neighbor, mad robin.
>
> A2 one half pousett, hey (about 3/4 hey) men pass left.
>
> B1 swing partner
>
> B2 ladies chain, star left.
>
> thanks.
>
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