LEAP YEAR DANCE
This flyer was passed out on Thursday, February 26, 2004
LEAP YEAR DANCE
When: 8-11 p.m. Friday, February 27
Where: Chapel on 100 E. 200 S.--Provo
Queries: Eduardo #30, Traci #41
Hey there all you people in the 76th Ward, as usual we have an activity this week, as unusual, this activity is special. I don’t just mean special as in a TV special, I mean SPECIAL. This activity only happens at most every four years. “What?” you exclaim, “That means...” That’s right...it’s a quadrennial activity!! The Leap Year Dance is a marvelous celebration started by eskimo tribes in Alaska. The eskimos might have had 30 different words to describe snow, but they also had 5 different names for each star. They prided themselves on this knowledge, to the point that it became a custom for the children to learn all of these names and their exact positions by the time they were 4 years old. If a parent were to ask a 5 year old, “What’s the 3rd star up from Basil, and the 6th star to the left of Reebok on the 9th of November at 8:36 p.m.?”, they would expect that child to answer in 2 seconds. And the kids made sure they knew the answers, for those who didn’t would be sent to bed without any whale blubber for dessert that night. This is how greatly they knew astronomy—better even than men of our culture know Simpsons, and even more than women know Friends. Thus they came to realize that years are longer than 365 days by just a smidgeon, and came to adjust their years accordingly so that their knowledge of the positions of the stars would remain constant. When the day that the stars and planets and moons did thus return to the starting positions of their great celestial dance, they leapt for joy inside their igloos for they knew all was well in the world. They realized it was not smart to do so for they did thus bash their heads against solid ice, but they were so happy that care they did not, for this was a moment so glorious that it outweighed the negative effects of a sore head or even a concussion. And so shall we leap for joy this Friday!! We will do many leaping dances, including a Leap Frog Line Dance that Traci and Eduardo have specially designed just for this momentous occasion. It will be done to the tune of “Jump! Jump!” from what I hear. If you don’t come for the sake of tradition, at least come to watch the line dance—which will be a great spectacle to behold!!
LEAP YEAR DANCE
When: 8-11 p.m. Friday, February 27
Where: Chapel on 100 E. 200 S.--Provo
Queries: Eduardo #30, Traci #41
Hey there all you people in the 76th Ward, as usual we have an activity this week, as unusual, this activity is special. I don’t just mean special as in a TV special, I mean SPECIAL. This activity only happens at most every four years. “What?” you exclaim, “That means...” That’s right...it’s a quadrennial activity!! The Leap Year Dance is a marvelous celebration started by eskimo tribes in Alaska. The eskimos might have had 30 different words to describe snow, but they also had 5 different names for each star. They prided themselves on this knowledge, to the point that it became a custom for the children to learn all of these names and their exact positions by the time they were 4 years old. If a parent were to ask a 5 year old, “What’s the 3rd star up from Basil, and the 6th star to the left of Reebok on the 9th of November at 8:36 p.m.?”, they would expect that child to answer in 2 seconds. And the kids made sure they knew the answers, for those who didn’t would be sent to bed without any whale blubber for dessert that night. This is how greatly they knew astronomy—better even than men of our culture know Simpsons, and even more than women know Friends. Thus they came to realize that years are longer than 365 days by just a smidgeon, and came to adjust their years accordingly so that their knowledge of the positions of the stars would remain constant. When the day that the stars and planets and moons did thus return to the starting positions of their great celestial dance, they leapt for joy inside their igloos for they knew all was well in the world. They realized it was not smart to do so for they did thus bash their heads against solid ice, but they were so happy that care they did not, for this was a moment so glorious that it outweighed the negative effects of a sore head or even a concussion. And so shall we leap for joy this Friday!! We will do many leaping dances, including a Leap Frog Line Dance that Traci and Eduardo have specially designed just for this momentous occasion. It will be done to the tune of “Jump! Jump!” from what I hear. If you don’t come for the sake of tradition, at least come to watch the line dance—which will be a great spectacle to behold!!
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