Definitely sounded teen-agey Bill, & I’d never heard the word ‘turn’ used that way, but got the idea. Fun in groups, without anything adult.
Here it would have been pizzas ordered in at some point, I guess.
But then remembering is one of the things we can do in these days of isolation …
Doug
> On May 27, 2020, at 3:26 AM, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> cheers Bill you are right of course
>
> On 27/05/2020 09:51, Bill Wootton wrote:
>> I’m still a teenager in my head in some ways, Patrick. The stanza about
>> current times was inserted after I had finished the first draft.
>>
>> As for panties your head may have been still running with the material in
>> your own snap.
>>
>> Bill
>>
>> On Wed, 27 May 2020 at 5:19 pm, Patrick McManus <
>> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>>> Bill thanks although I misread the title as panties!
>>>
>>> enjoyed but maybe for me I thought first of your teenage parties of long
>>> ago then suddenly it's today -maybe I misread cheers P
>>>
>>> never heard of a turn an Oz thing?
>>>
>>> On 26/05/2020 22:29, Bill Wootton wrote:
>>>> A party used to be called a do.
>>>>
>>>> What do you do at a party? Chat,
>>>>
>>>> drink, flirt, dance... Da do doo ron?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> A party used also to be called a turn.
>>>>
>>>> What turns? You, maybe, as you swirl?
>>>>
>>>> Or your behaviour, not at work or home.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> A party sets you a-part,
>>>>
>>>> adrift from customary habits.
>>>>
>>>> Your job now is to socialise.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Parties were the best fun
>>>>
>>>> before food got involved.
>>>>
>>>> Eating was cheating back in the day.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Food should be incidental at a party
>>>>
>>>> or spontaneously called for, late,
>>>>
>>>> music and laughter the cravings to satisfy.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Parties these days are verboten.
>>>>
>>>> The very idea of clamour is fading.
>>>>
>>>> Music has lost a dimension.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Good parties gathered their own
>>>>
>>>> momentum, created circumstances
>>>>
>>>> for doing and turning.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> May they yet re-turn.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> bw
Douglas Barbour
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