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I guess the really good thing about The YWN Coffee Room is that unlike a real conversation you could talk even if no one is listening so here it goes.
Wedding Shtick: I would categorize wedding shtick into 5 different types.
1. Cool dancing
2. Cool Dance Humoristic Emulation
3. Lame and repetitive dancing
4. Look at me shtick
5. Remember when shtick, which is the worst of all.
And so aspiring Shticksters, you may thinking that there is no shtick left for you to do, unless you learn how to moonwalk like Neil Armstrong. So I would just like to clarify, these rules are meant to be broken, as long as your shtick is good even if it falls into one of these categories it will still be mesameach your old baseball buddy.
Lest anyone wonder how in the world I happen to remember that it was a repost, I will explain. The prior posting was just a few posts before I was told in no uncertain terms that I am no fun (else I would have been blocked).
Since then I have tried vociferously to get myself blocked, but clearly my lack of qualification is obvious.
squeak I’m not following your logic. Can you explain that in simpler terms?
logic mahn d’car shmei
CWDB????? As long as the Kallah is not asking HERSELF that, I think we are ok.
that’s OK squeak 😀 i can give you lessons, i have been blocked/banned/suspended from many a forum 🙂
Would you like to add another one to that list? ?
Bomb- welcome back. Haven’t heard from you in a while!
Gaon Atzum –
Sad to say, 99% of the wedddings I go to have simple circle-dancing with the occasional over-under teams (which rarely work beyond the 3rd or 4th pair). Once in a while, I do see some very coordinated bochurim, who either have natural grace or do lots of practice. (The girls side of the mechitza is much better, but they take lessons, so that’s not a fair comparison).
One shtick you did not mention, which I saw once and thought was a great idea, was 6-7 of the kallas friends borrowed hats and jackets (not props, the real thing) and went into “dance” around the kallah. (If there are any girls reading this thread, consider implementing this one..it was a real winner)
Since I’m rapidly approching “middle age” I try to stick to the sidelines, but the talented ones are fun to watch. But I must say, the analysis you gave must have taken hours to write (and very well written, I might add).
You should contribute more often! (just please pick a subject I can comment on:)
I find the regular circle dancing to be without any emotion, just another rote in the present day orthodox Jews life. Why can’t we awaken within ourselvs a bit of true simcha to be misamaich the chosson and kallah? I beleive that the level of self confidence is so low that we don’t hold our participation in a wedding to be of any value.
I beleive that the level of self confidence is so low that we don’t hold our participation in a wedding to be of any value.
Hence why I don’t participate at weddings. No one needs to see me pretend to be dancing when I’m really just making a fool of myself.
I do that well enough just by breathing… I don’t have to compound it by dancing. I’d rather just fade back into the corner somewhere — far away from the dancing and the shtick.*
The Wolf
* Unless I have my camera with me — but then I’m not dancing, I’m shooting. 🙂
Wolf
“Hence why I don’t participate at weddings. No one needs to see me pretend to be dancing when I’m really just making a fool of myself.
I do that well enough just by breathing… I don’t have to compound it by dancing. I’d rather just fade back into the corner somewhere — far away from the dancing and the shtick.*”
Please stop putting yourself down, its a pain for others to have to read it and its likely assur as well so please stop it. The more negativity you write about yourself the worse you will feel and you make us feel weird and uncomfortable for reading it.
If you have issues with your self confidence, please get them addressed on your own cheshbon not on ours! Thanks!
To thine own self be true.
The Wolf
(Nonetheless, I am sorry if it makes you uncomfortable. That’s not my intention.)
Among the Wedding Shtick that I’ve seen on many Chasunas is, someone ignites 5 or 6 sticks. (Some, on both ends.) Usually, it’s a professional-amateur-volunteer who does it l’Sheim Mitzvah. Other times, it’s a friend of the Chosson. They juggle it very adeptly and it’s beautiful. But, at the same time this is potentially a very dangerous stunt. At one time, a performer juggled those lit sticks, and the entire structure caught fire and they ended up with 24 people dead and many injured, r”l.
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