First day of May. We can dance around a maypole.
Maypoles were banned a few times in the US because of their "immorality." I mean, what's immoral about dancing around an erect pole?
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Pieter Bruegel the Younger, "Village Scene with Dance Around the Maypole", ca.1634, Oil on panel.
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Pieter Bruegel, "Dance Around the Maypole", ca. 1635
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For those that can’t keep that erect, it gives then a sense of inadequacy.
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My prep school banned its once-annual Maypole dance in 1980, just before I could have participated, naturally.
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Not the pole so much as the dancing. Evil demons possess your body, dontcha know, to make you do bad seductive things—like The Swim (but not actually forbid swimming). Huh?
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I’ve occasionally wondered about the origin of my given name. Was the first Mayson born in February?
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Well the idea is that after your ribbon is almost done you tie off with someone and then you go into the bushes with them and go "a-May-ing'. 😉
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