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Competition

Redoing the hokey-cokey

10 August 2019

9:00 AM

10 August 2019

9:00 AM

In Competition No. 3110 you were invited to provide a version of the hokey-cokey filtered through the pen of a well-known writer.
 
Thanks to George Simmers and C. Paul Evans, I now know that doing the hokey–cokey — said by some to have been composed by Puritans in the 18th century to mock the Catholic mass — could constitute a hate crime.

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