I remember an entertainer named Charo whose schtick was to yell "Coochie, Coochie!" and then shimmy. She was much beloved of Johnny Carson and Jay & Dave, but I never understood the allure. Yet, there was something wonderfully flamboyantly outrageous about Charo that I had to admire. So, last night when I went to a Poetry Slam and one of the feature poets entertained us with what she called her "Coochie Poem" I was pretty sure I was in for something a little different. To her credit, she did warn the parents that they might want to leave the room, but I was there with some students and pretty sure I could handle any crazy poem this Poetess could dish out about Vaginas. I think the subtitle to her poem was 1000 ways to say, "Coochie." Who knew? And why would you want to? She said words that made my eyes pop out of my head. (Words that I was brought up thinking should require a bar of soap after you say them.) I suppose some of them were funny and I guess the idea is to take away the stigma that euphemisms and slang carry, but I think I could go through my life just calling it Australia (you know, for Down Under). It made me wonder if I am in a serious generation gap....or a Mormon gap....or something else. What do you think?
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coochie coochie shimmy shimmy! sounds like a party to me! haha, i wish i could've been there. australia though? i may actually use that one but you could just chalk that up to your sense of humor. what a weird poetry slam! but have you been to a slam yet that wasn't pretty weird?
Linne, you are far out, girl! There's a gap all right--probably a generation gap, though you are the youngest looking grandma I know, so I am sure you are loathe to admit it.---the gap, not the grandma part.
Anyhow, you go places and do things other people never do. So I guess the woman was just proud of herself for writing down so many alternative words. Like an obscene thesaurus. But really, who needs it? I have watched enough R movies to have heard them before. Shock affect, I guess.
Hahaha, if I were there, I might have had even more to say about what she said, so I don't think it's as much an age gap as a collapse in our generation's morality. :)
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