to put it nicely, they are all intruders... messing up the immaculate order we worked so hard to instill in the lindy hop scene. now its just chaos and confusion. and blues dancing.

Update your locations, girls. You're confusing everyone!

well that depends on whether you're talking about Blues Dancing or "Blues Dancing" or Slow Lindy or Slow Drag or Lindy Blues or Swing Blues or Drag Blues or perhaps just West Coast Swing.

i think if there's anything that recent tv shows has taught us, its that we can't be too careful in distiguishing the difference between these dances! pretty soon you're going to have people dancing drag blues at a pure blues event and bal-swing at pure bal events and it will just be one catastrophic mess!

lucy, what are we to do?

and another thing, people clearly can no longer READ. the topic here is "lucy and jojo only", so if you're not lucy or jojo, that means not you.

seriously how fun can a message board be if you can't read. go watch youtube!

jo, you make some excellent points. i see several problems here:

1. in our absence, clearly the swing dance community has neglected the CRUCIAL responsibility of accurate labeling of styles, trends, and sentiments.

2. this neglect has led to widespread confusion and intermingling of ideologies.

3. due to said confusion, forms such as this are reduced to incessant infighting amongst established members and persistent questioning by newcomers.

clearly we have our work cut out for us. let's begin with the most pressing (pun intended) problem: disambiguation of blues dancing.

the sooner we get this mess sorted out, the sooner we can get back to discussing my wedding colors.

Blues exchange: (also blues weekend, blues rendezvous, blues gathering, etc.) one or more consecutive evening and late-nite events characterized by decreased socio-sexual inhibitions. similar to a traditional (mainstream) dance club, except you can take classes in it. Near antonym: balboa exchange

Solo blues: overtly sexual solo dancing. see also striptease, masturbation

Girls-Only Event: An excuse for scantily-clad women to suck popsicles, engage in pillow-fights, and jump on trampolines under the guise of girls-only workshops.

Guys-Only Event: An event where there are no girls. And hence, no attendees.

Sorry for the intrusion, but could you ladies please define "Blues Dancing." I would like to know exactly what it is that I hate so much.

Regards, Beckto

Ah, excellent. The next phase of my plan is underway...

Now to continue sorting the data from the DNA-harvesting nanobots I've woven into the world's fingerless gloves...

lucylanefromthefuture. stop stalking me.

we have had this conversation before.

only now you are actually redundant. it is 7:46pm here, i am already posting from the future.

Fluffernutter: Arguably the most significant American invention since jeans. A sandwich consisting of two slices of bread, enveloping layers of peanut butter and fluffy edible heaven.

Are jeans an american invention?

Because, see, according to Wikipedia, jeans were invented in Genoa, Italy.

Now who's the nerd? :)

good point. but just in case....

Stalker: one who fixates obsessively on an individual, usually (but not always) of the opposite sex.

Signs you may be a stalker: -googling one name (other than yourself) more than 15 times -binoculars -creating and/or resurrecting yehoodi aliases about lucylane -stealing underwear -excessive proximity -finding yourself saying "i just think skye is a really nice guy. in a platonic way."

oh. are you saying i should give andy reid his underwear back?

all of it?

maybe just keep the red H&M ones...