A chuckle for today

Julia got a cd for Christmas that has 15 fun and upbeat songs from the 50s - Hand Jive, The Name Game, The Purple People Eater, Rockin' Robin, Charlie Brown, La Bamba, Splish Splash, Lollipop, and others.


Anyhow, we put the cd on the other night and were dancing to it, and I started to do the Twist to a few of the songs. The girls were intrigued, and thought I made up the dance myself. I told them that about 50 years ago, EVERYONE did the Twist!


Later that night, I smiled at the memory of the kids dancing the Twist in the living room, and it brought to mind a funny little chuckle about that dance. I dug it out of my archives to share here with you... Enjoy!

It's the spring of 1957 and Bobby goes to pick up his date, Peggy Sue. Bobby's a pretty hip guy with his own car and a duck tail hairdo. When he goes to the front door, Peggy Sue's father answers and invites him in.

"Peggy Sue's not ready yet, so why don't you have a seat?" says her father.

"That's cool," says Bobby.

Peggy Sue's father asks Bobby what they are planning to do. Bobby replies politely that they will probably just go to the malt shop or to a drive-in-movie.

Peggy Sue's father responds, "Why don't you kids go out and screw? I hear all of the kids are doing it."

Naturally, this statement comes as quite a surprise to Bobby, and with his eyes wide open, he manages to ask, "What?"

"Yeah," says Peggy Sue's father, "Peggy Sue really likes to screw. And she's gotten really good at it too! She'll screw all night if we let her!"

Hearing this, Bobby's eyes light up and he smiles from ear to ear. Immediately, he has revised the plans for the evening.

A few minutes later, Peggy Sue comes downstairs in her poodle skirt with her saddle shoes and announces that she's ready to go.

Almost breathless with anticipation, Bobby escorts his date out the front door while Dad is saying, "Have a good evening kids," with a small wink for Bobby.

About 20 minutes later, a thoroughly disheveled Peggy Sue rushes back into the house, slams the door behind her and screams at her father: "DAMMIT, DADDY!!!!! - THE TWIST!!!!! - IT'S CALLED THE TWIST!!!"