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I totally didn't get this and I asked the Professor to explain it. He  
says he means Sandy should do a rain dance.

Interpretingly yours,

Mrs Flubber


On Mar 19, 2008, at 10:35 PM, Roy Morgan wrote:

> On Mar 19, 2008, at 4:18 PM, Bunjov AT aol.com wrote:
>
> > Celia! I would GIVE UP my satellite TV for a rainy afternoon!
> >
> > Sandy
> > Mid-Mojave
>
> True story:
>
> A woman I was acquainted with was doing her PhD at Syracuse in
> Anthropology.  She was on a summer field trip among the Myans in the
> Yucatan, Mexico.  It was the end of the summer, and she'd settled on
> the dry mud among the other women watching Don Carlos, the medicine
> man, do a rain dance. She'd been making notes in her ever present
> notebook about the dance and incantations that Don Carlos was doing:
>
> " ... Don Carlos is dancing in a rough circle, doing an incantation
> in very old Myan while all the village is assembled in a big circle.
> I can catch an occasional word that's similar to the modern language,
> but I'm distracted from that as notice that many of the women are
> pulling their scarves up over their heads. I shield this notebook
> from the drops because beginning to sprinkle.
>
> MY GOD... Don Carlos is making it RAIN!!! "
>
> Roy