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Posted: 1/1/2017 9:30:46 AM EDT

[#1]

At 4H camp, yes. 1980 something

Not at school. It has been 35+ years since I thought about it. Back then even the kids thought it was fun. I am sure these days it won't fly at all.

Posted: 1/1/2017 9:36:05 AM EDT

[#2]

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... Absolutely, it was 1960s

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This.
It was fun!

Posted: 1/1/2017 9:42:35 AM EDT

[#3]

I remember having a one afternoon "class" just once. No idea what year it was. Never did it again. Had to be late 60's or early 70's. By the mid 70's I was in the Army.

Posted: 1/1/2017 9:53:46 AM EDT

[#4]

Yes.

Utah. Early 1980s.

Had a great time. Practiced for weeks. Then did it for the rest of the school. Then had a night and invited the parents and community to come and watch.

I am not just saying this. We were pretty dang good.

Posted: 1/1/2017 9:59:21 AM EDT

[#5]

No square dancing. I believe that I may have been briefly introduced to some sort of line dancing in elementary school. Nothing like that taught in middle school. In high school, none of the units in the standard PE class were dance related- after freshman year, there was a dance class that was available for PE credit (instead of typical PE).

Posted: 1/1/2017 10:03:21 AM EDT

[#6]

I never heard of such a thing. Surprised there's 4 pages of mostly yes.

No, for me.

Posted: 1/1/2017 10:05:19 AM EDT

[#7]

Yep. Mid '80s.

Thought it was fun.

Posted: 1/1/2017 10:08:38 AM EDT

[#8]

Yep. In the 70's. San Marcos Texas.

Posted: 1/1/2017 10:10:10 AM EDT

[#9]

Yes 2nd grade around 1977 had a big dance outside in spring

Posted: 1/1/2017 10:22:49 AM EDT

[#10]

Yep. Early 80's on an Air Force base, maybe sixth grade? It was kind of fun and you got to touch the girls.

Posted: 1/1/2017 10:26:18 AM EDT

[#11]

We had square dances in the gym often when I was in grade school. Desegregation had just changed the diversity of my school which made a dance like that an awkward affair, we didn't want to dance with or touch each other initially so the partner picking was painful the first few times. My teacher decided to do the pairings from then on, one time she paired me with Fleetris (sp), I was about 9 years old and she was probably 14-15 and much taller than me, both in the 4th grade.

When we did the do-si-do I went airborne every time, she swung me around like a rag doll. It was painfully embarrassing to me and all my classmates were laughing and pointing at me but she was loving it and stepped it up. Made me so mad I put a thumb tack in her chair later, big mistake. Explaining cuts and bruises from fighting to my dad was nothing new to me, explaining to him how I got my ass kicked by a black girl was worse than the beating she gave me.

Welcome to the South in the '60's

Posted: 1/1/2017 10:31:46 AM EDT

[#12]

Yes.

Posted: 1/1/2017 10:33:45 AM EDT

[#13]

Yes, during the '50s.

I dated a square dancer for a couple of years during the mid-'80s. Had a damn good time, but she was a die-hard Democrat and afraid of my horse, so...

Posted: 1/1/2017 10:37:09 AM EDT

[#14]

My kids do a square dancing show for parents/grandparents in 4th grade. Nobody freaks out in real America.

Posted: 1/1/2017 10:38:00 AM EDT

[#15]

Yup

Posted: 1/1/2017 10:40:25 AM EDT

[#16]

I am a native Kentuckian.

Anybody who delivers babies here are square dance callers.

We all exit the womb square dancin.

Posted: 1/1/2017 10:42:39 AM EDT

[#17]

Yes, back in the 60's in MN.

Posted: 1/1/2017 10:47:45 AM EDT

[#18]

It was taught in the NW Chicago suburbs in the late 60's. I hated it.

Posted: 1/1/2017 10:50:17 AM EDT

[#19]

Elementary school, late 60's.

Hated every minute of it.

Posted: 1/1/2017 10:53:02 AM EDT

[#20]

Yes and I fucking hated it.

Posted: 1/1/2017 10:55:32 AM EDT

[#21]

Elementary school at Vivian, LA in the 1960's.

Posted: 1/1/2017 10:56:49 AM EDT

[#22]

sure was, Brookwood Elementary in Dalton Ga...circa 1966

Posted: 1/1/2017 10:59:44 AM EDT

[#23]

Arlington Jr. High School in Upstate NY. We had Square Dancing in the 1970's when I went there.

I HATED IT ,IT SUCKED BALLS.

Posted: 1/1/2017 11:00:48 AM EDT

[#24]

Yep.

We were also forced to do the Hora and Jarabe Tapatío around a somberero.

Diversity.

And that was 1972-1974.

Posted: 1/1/2017 11:11:14 AM EDT

[#25]

Yep right about 1966

Posted: 1/1/2017 11:22:13 AM EDT

[#26]

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Yes, mid 80's. But I was sent to the principals office for refusing to hold girls hand.

JHC I just remembered this after all those years.

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Ain't it weird how perfectly tucked away in there things can be. Kinda like finding something in the house you lost and haven't seen or thought about in years. Then one day you stumble upon it and bam, you find it and it looks just like the last time you saw it. How can a whole memory just hang out so long without being accessed, how much space does it take up, does it move locations when found.

Posted: 1/1/2017 11:27:37 AM EDT

[#27]

Sure did back in '63 or '64.

Posted: 1/1/2017 11:30:42 AM EDT

[#28]

Yep. Elementary school early 70's and Jr. High '76. Georgia

Posted: 1/1/2017 11:30:43 AM EDT

[#29]

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That's funny

I remember liking it to for the same reason. "I get to hold her hand"

Posted: 1/1/2017 11:33:25 AM EDT

[#30]

Yep. Hated it. In elementary school on rainy days, instead of playing outside, we were forced into the gym to square dance. Believe that helped to develop my disdain for authority.

Posted: 1/1/2017 11:36:24 AM EDT

[#31]

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Swing your partner round and round.
Kick 'em in the ass and throw 'em down!

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The one that has been with me forever:

Swing your partner round and round
Pick her up and throw her down
Spit in her eye and make her cry
Then say Oh Me, Oh My

Posted: 1/1/2017 11:36:31 AM EDT

[#32]

Yessir, we square danced in school in the 50's.

Posted: 1/1/2017 11:37:38 AM EDT

[#33]

We did it in jr high or HS. We still teach it in HS locally.

Posted: 1/1/2017 11:37:44 AM EDT

[#34]

Yes. She played southern music too.

Posted: 1/1/2017 11:40:06 AM EDT

[#35]

Nope. We had woodshop. Everyone built birdhouses.

Posted: 1/1/2017 11:40:40 AM EDT

[#36]

Yup, early 80's elementary school. in Gym class at that! I hated it. I hate dancing. Now that I think about it, I probably hate dancing because of those experiences.

We also did crap with a parachute. Some kind of weird pseudo-dancing thing, spinning around all holding this parachute up so it wouldn't touch the ground. I think it was more to just keep us occupied than actually learn anything.

(This was also back in the days when you weren't required to give everyone a valentine (I never got any.

) And, we would raise the flag outside on the flagpole and say the Pledge every morning.)

Posted: 1/1/2017 11:42:39 AM EDT

[#37]

Yes, and that was even elementary school in the late 90's or early 2000's

Posted: 1/1/2017 11:46:46 AM EDT

[#38]

Grade school,late 50's, in Seattle. It was fun because you could "touch girls".

Posted: 1/1/2017 11:47:20 AM EDT

[#39]

Yep, dancing was part of the physical education course work in Jr. High School. You actually got to touch the girls.

Posted: 1/1/2017 11:56:00 AM EDT

[#40]

Happy New Year everyone!

Just checking back to see if MK-CULTRA has been banned yet. I see staff locked his other thread, the one where he's crying like a f... (oh wait, that would be a CoC violation, and I can't call him that HERE, that will have to wait for my pit thread later) because a man corrected him about RAM trucks. Obviously, whoever that man was, he sized him up correctly at glance, that's for sure.

Still here? If so, looking forward to inviting you into the pit after that 24 hours I gave you (see page 3) is up!

And then, we'll get things hashed out and give you a chance to learn some manners for yourself.

Y'all have a nice day now and best wishes to everyone for 2017. MAGA '17!

Posted: 1/1/2017 11:56:48 AM EDT

[#41]

Yep. in CALIFORNIA circa 1987-1988.

Posted: 1/1/2017 11:57:09 AM EDT

[#42]

Yup. Elementary school. Back in the 80s

Posted: 1/1/2017 11:59:32 AM EDT

[#43]

They tried. I told them it was against my religion. I ran laps instead. Fuck pop country music.

Posted: 1/1/2017 12:04:30 PM EDT

[#44]

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Yep, elementary school in the 70's.

~~I kind of liked it.~~

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Posted: 1/1/2017 12:05:25 PM EDT

[#45]

Square dancing was the rainy day PE in elementary school (early to mid 1970s).

In jr high, one of the gym teachers decided that we needed to learn how to disco dance.

In high school it was ballroom dancing. Freshman year gym class was my first exposure to ballroom dancing. Somehow ended up with a dance partner that was a sophomore and very, very pretty. I was so nervous that I was sweating buckets and couldn't think of anything to say. Kept trying to concentrate on my feet and not stepping on her feet. Couldn't look down at my feet, because that would make it look like I was staring at her chest.

Eventually, she said something that she really shouldn't have said:
"The guys are doing so much better, this year. Last year, they kept stepping on our feet."

Why did she have to say that?

Wasn't 30 seconds later that I had to apologize for stepping on her foot.

Posted: 1/1/2017 12:07:36 PM EDT

[#46]

Gym class in middle school.

1) Square dancing
2) The "Amos Moses" dance
3) The Hava Nageela dance
4) The Hustle

Posted: 1/1/2017 12:09:46 PM EDT

[#47]

Had a square dance caller at our wedding....1982.

In laws were into it, the Disneyland Squares. IIRC the grade schools in my era did it.

Posted: 1/1/2017 12:09:51 PM EDT

[#48]

yes
sweaty handed girls were the best

Posted: 1/1/2017 12:14:47 PM EDT

[#49]

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Happy New Year everyone!

Just checking back to see if OP has been banned yet. I see staff locked his other thread, the one where he's crying like a f... (oh wait, that would be a CoC violation, and I can't call him that HERE, that will have to wait for my pit thread later) because a man corrected him about RAM trucks. Obviously, whoever that man was, he sized the OP up correctly at glance, that's for sure.

Still here OP? If so, looking forward to inviting you into the pit after that 24 hours I gave you (see page 3) is up!

And then, we'll get things hashed out and give you a chance to learn some manners for yourself.

Y'all have a nice day now and best wishes to everyone for 2017. MAGA '17!

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And I was just starting to like your crotch shot

If this AlterEgo got so out of line that he created and is posting from a different account and doesn't recall a thing about it, I would hope that you would call medical attention for me, instead of beating me up in the pit.

@6winchester2

Posted: 1/1/2017 12:16:53 PM EDT

[#50]

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And I was just starting to like your crotch shot

If this AlterEgo got so out of line that he created and is posting from a different account and doesn't recall a thing about it, I would hope that you would call medical attention for me, instead of beating me up in the pit.

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Quoted:
Happy New Year everyone!

Just checking back to see if OP has been banned yet. I see staff locked his other thread, the one where he's crying like a f... (oh wait, that would be a CoC violation, and I can't call him that HERE, that will have to wait for my pit thread later) because a man corrected him about RAM trucks. Obviously, whoever that man was, he sized the OP up correctly at glance, that's for sure.

Still here OP? If so, looking forward to inviting you into the pit after that 24 hours I gave you (see page 3) is up!

And then, we'll get things hashed out and give you a chance to learn some manners for yourself.

Y'all have a nice day now and best wishes to everyone for 2017. MAGA '17!

And I was just starting to like your crotch shot

If this AlterEgo got so out of line that he created and is posting from a different account and doesn't recall a thing about it, I would hope that you would call medical attention for me, instead of beating me up in the pit.

(Thinking about getting rid of the "crotch shot" since all I get for it is grief, but it stays for now, cuz I gotta have me a 17'er's account to notch my gun with!).

ETA: Sorry I said OP when I meant the other guy. I got confused about what thread I was in.

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