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• I don't think there will be a problem. I see women Zydeco-ing with other women all the time at Pawtucket's German Club.

• Debra: "What's wrong Willie"
  Willie: "I'm just sick and tired of all these copy-cat Zydeco dancers stealing my moves on the dance floor.

• I'm afraid you are not getting it.
  Let's take a field trip down to the Surf Club in Hyattsville, Maryland where you can see "real" Zydeco dancers strut their stuff.

• If the costume is good enough for Keith Frank to wear -- it's good enough for me too

• It still doesn't sound like Zydeco -- I guess we're not eating enough crawfish

• … and the second lady I danced with at the Gator by the Bay Festival said I was too stiff and rigid for Zydeco dancing. The third lady said I wasn't a good listener. The fourth said ….

• Simon: Sorry to disappoint your future guys, but no one has ever heard of a quartet singing Zydeco songs -- plus your band has too many guitars and those ties make you look foolish. Perhaps if you go back to New Jersey and try something else you might have a chance.

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• Here at New York’s Ukrainian Hall we always end a Zydeco dance with a "thank you" hug and kiss.

• Hey Buddy, is this the way to Whisky River Landing?

• The new Club Zydeco opens in Los Angeles

• Come on gang, follow me. I know the staircase to the Rock ‘n’ Bowl is near here somewhere.

• Do you think that we are not being invited to dance because we aren’t wearing our Lawman jeans?

• You want to go on a Zydeco Trail Ride? I’ll take you on a Zydeco Trail Ride!

• Of course, a cute, petite, bubbley, bouncy, blonde cheer-leader type like you would just fit right in on the dance floor of Jax’s

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• I can see why you aren’t such a good Zydeco dancer. You have "spaghetti arms."

• Hundreds of Louisiana Zydeco fans express their dislike of the closing of Hamilton’s

• OK guys, now on the count of one we all start with our left foot and move to the left. Remember it’s SLOW - QUICK - QUICK; and none of that side to side traveling Cajun 2-step stuff -- dance in place!

• One last intense Zydeco dance Ann, and then we can go in and get the free beer

• That guy over there sez that he'll take us to a Zydeco dance tonight provided we tone down our racquet. So let's not yell each time we hit the ball

• For me, Zydeco dance instruction is an international thing.

• What makes you think my family name is Pinocchio? All I said was that you are a terrific Zydeco dancer.

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• This drive every weekend from NOLA to Lafayette just to Zydeco dance is a killer!

• Now if you want to go out to dance at Jax’s tonight you must remember to always stand erect and have a passive look on your face.

• M’Lord, are you sure that there will be a Zydeco band waiting for us when we finish this ride?

• I agree!
  Since there’s no dance floor, the best parts about Festival Acadiens are the interesting vendor booths.

• Is this the way they dance down here? I’m shocked! I’m heading back to NYC.

• Perhaps they didn’t ask you to dance because you parked yourself away in a corner and didn’t look like you were enjoying yourself..

• "In my day we dressed a little more conservative at the Moodus CZ festival." "Well, Mom, this is 2005 and in Connecticut, conservative dressing is out the window -- and you can tell THAT to the people in Strawberry Park.

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• There, we’re done. Now if you go Zydeco dancing at Mr. A’s tonight … I’m sure you’ll stand out.

• They’ve certainly done a good job in re-decorating the Rock ‘n’ Bowl

• Well I think you have the Zydeco hand-toss down OK, but I think we have to concentrate on our foot-work now.

• …you telling’ me that no drinks are allowed on the Zydeco dance floor?

• The crowd at Pat's Atchafalaya Club in Henderson, LA gets a little out of hand during a Steve Riley show

• To h*** with those new fangled Harold steps; I’ll just wait for the line dance and enjoy myself.

• Don’t worry Vikki, I hear that Eagles Hall isn’t as scary as it looks.

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• Hey guys! Just down this street is this great little Dutch coffee house where they play Zydeco music and serve brownies. What could be better than that on an afternoon in Amsterdam?

• That's what I like about dancing Zydeco in Houston. There's almost no one on the dance floor when the music is playing.

• …and the winner at the Zydeco Jamm for the most appropriate East Coast Zydeco fashion is … Betsy Templeslope who sez she has been dancing Zydeco for almost two weeks -- and loves it.

• Do you see the tall guy over there with the cowboy hat, starched shirt, and tight jeans with the big belt buckle? I’m gonna Zydeco with him next.

• Yes, I think this outfit is entirely appropriate to dance in at Jax Grill tonight. After all all the east coast Zydeco dancers wear it -- and besides, my Lawman jeans are in the washer.

• … and he’s supposed to be our Zydeco dance instructor. Look at the way he bounces up and down when HE dances.

• You want me to do the door tonight at Hamilton‘s? $4 per head? No one in wearing cotton lace anklet socks? Sure!

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• Hey guys! Just down this street is this great little Dutch coffee house where they play Zydeco music and serve brownies. What could be better than that on an afternoon in Amsterdam?

• We've been riding on this trail ride for hours. Are you sure that Zydeco Ali and the Sheiks will be playing at our next oasis? I just can't wait to get started dancing?

• Don't bug me, Buster, unless you want to Zydeco dance

• You want to know why she is a popular Zydeco dance partner -- it’s because she doesn’t have pockets in the back of her Lawman jeans.

• Class, Welcome to "What to wear to a Zydeco dance hall." My name is Liz and I’ll be your instructor for the evening.

• I’m trying to tell you boys -- there’s a dress code here at the Zydeco-Boom-Boom club and that the ladies won’t dance with you unless you get in fashion.

• Yes! I’de be glad to take you to a Zydeco club for dancing -- but just not here in New York. Let’s wait till our business trip to Montana where you will have lots of room to practice.

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• I look marvelous. Even fashion reporter Elizabeth Churchill would approve of my outfit for tonight's Zydeco dance.

• The foreign guy at the 7-11 said that if you magnify the back of a $50 bill with this water bottle a map of the route to the Keith Frank dance at Slim's Y-Ki-Ki will be evident.

• Gee Mister, they may be a little more than I am looking for. I might need a much simpler mask. It's just for the Mardi Gras Parade on Zydeco Cruise 2004.

• Hey, what do you think? Won't this impress the gals at El Sid O's this evening. I'll be in Zydeco heaven.

• Sure I'll take you to the Zydeco dance after the game, but I hope you'll at least wear cowboy boots with that outfit.

• Pssst! Curley Taylor at Hamilton's tonight. Pass it on, 'QING.''SHYEH SHYEH.'

• Jim: I just can't believe that I never met you at this Cajun dance hall before.
  Elizabeth: Well it must be that I dress to blend in.

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• Now remember, in Zydeco as soon as we separate you are free to do whatever you want during 6 of the 8 beats.Of course, then again, we don't have to separate.

• ... and now that I have become the Queen of England my next step is to become the Zydeco Queen.

• Newest Lafayette Zydeco sensation -- Proud Mary of 'Proud Mary and her Burnin' Zydeco Band' seen and heard playing on her accordion her namesake Zydeco rendition of the 1971 hit "Proud Mary"-- while her big wheel kept on turning.

• Dance instructors Michael Seider and Lilli Ann Carey-Nettles demonstrate some advanced Zydeco steps at the recent Sky Camp in Fall Creek, Oregon.

• Don't worry lady. We can fly you to Louisiana for Festivals Acadiens -- and get you there in time for the dancing.

• Just sea water for me thanks. I'm a Zydeco dancer and we don't drink.

• Now look here Mr. Policeman. There is no law that sez I have to wear smooth booty jeans and cowboy boots to a Zydeco dance. If I want to have that Northeast Wal*Mart Zydeco Dance look -- that's up to me.

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• You want to Cajun dance with both of us? Why, we do declare!

• Now listen up guys. Richard's is a club for Zydeco -- not line dancing!

• This is the last time we are going to schedule a Zydeco Trail Ride in Colorado

• Yes, I would love to learn how to Cajun dance -- but I am pretty busy at the moment. Please get back to me in 10 months.

• Now just mark my words. Those Houston Zydeco girls with their Lawman's Smooth Booty Jeans are in for big surprise when I show up in this outfit. I'm gonna be the cat's meow, dawg.

• Zydeco Force on stage doing one of their dance routines.

• "Margaret, this Fingerlakes Roots festival is -- So Yesterday. I'm going to go to Festivals Acadiens in September. That's where the real 'mud action' is."

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• Yes, we are supposed to collect chickens before the Cajun dance -- but that is only for Mardi Gras. It's May now!!!!

• Are you sure you are a Zydeco instructor? I just want to learn a few steps to impress my girlfriend.

• Everywhere I go, all they want is to hear me sing "Lula, Lula, - Don't you go to Bingo"

• If you think that dancing in the rain and mud at Festivals Acadiens is tough -- just wait until you have to pick up your car in the parking lot at closing.

• As soon as we finish these Ft. Lauderdale Crawfish Burgers we are going to the Louisiana Stage and dance to Cajun Dave and the N’awlins Po Boyz.

• No! No! Mr. Chan. Zydeco is a more grounded type of dance.

• Let's see ... it sez here that you were caught doing Zydeco at La Poussier in Breaux Bridge. Now in Louisiana that's a serious offense, Sir.

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• I want to thank the Zydeco Academy for this award and for them realizing that - When I do the Zydeco, I do the Zydeco!

• That's what I like about Zydeco dancing on the East Coast -- the simple hugs after each dance.

• Cajun Dance Instructor: Now make sure your upper body, particulary your head, stays perfectly erect while you are dancing.

• Would one of you fine ladies care to do a little Zydeco on the dance floor instead of sitting here all night?

• So! you want a line dance? Well, I'll give you a line dance......

• Oh don't worry, we will fit right in with the Houston Zydeco scene. The women there will welcome us with open arms.

• I love these trail rides but to tell you the truth, I can't hear the Zydeco music.

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• Yes Sherrif, I'm out here on Highway 182 just North of Opelousas and there are some crazy guys wearing pajamas, masks and tall pointed hats; riding horses and stealing chickens. I just thought I'de let you know.

• I'll be coming to bed in a little while dear -- but first I must check out Gary Hayman's ZydeE-Magic Cajun Zydeco WEB site to see what's new.

• If you go to a new Zydeco dance club, don't give 'em your right name; give them an alias.

• OK son, now that you are a man I'll let you in on a little secret. It's Step-Pause-Step-Step. Not, Step-Step-Step-Pause.

• After dancing Zydeco for three hours --I am now a lean, mean, fat-burning machine.

• Hey you in the red suit. Like I told you before -- if you don't count you ain't never gonna get it.

• Gene, this is a snazzy dance, but I don't think it's Zydeco.

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• Well I was out doing the Zydeco at Eagles Hall in Alameda, asking this new woman to dance, and I moved in close - just like the dance instructor told me - and she hauls off a decks me with a right uppercut. I'm sure that doesn't happen in SW Louisiana.

• ..we have been dancing Zydeco this way for hundreds of years; and we are not going to change to nouveau Zydeco now.

• Now that depends. I Zydeco with the SPSS step and he dances with the SSSP step.

• When I Zydeco dance I get hot under the collar

• Mickey, I saw you Zydeco dance last night at Eagles Hall ... and Your Fired!

• Now let me show you the new Zydeco move I learned from that Zydeco dance instructor here in Houston.

• I had a great Country Mardi Gras weekend. I wore my blue Vera Wang dress to Mulate's, the red flowing Giorgio Armani skirt to La Poussier, the green Christian Lacroix mini-skirt to Randols and my Chanel suit to Vermilionville.

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• Now don't be afraid, the basic Zydeco step is really simple

• I'm going to the Zydeco Dance in my Smooth-Booty Jeans --"Gold Edition"

• Yes, but not everyone is doing a Western dance to this music. I really would like to Zydeco with you.

• When I Zydeco -- I Zydeco!

• I've yet to find one Zydeco disc at this Vermont radio station

• Overheard on the Zydeco Cruise^TM

  Carol: Don't you think the ship is rocking a little too much?

  Kermit: Not to worry, we are still on the Mississippi but once we get to the Gulf of Mexico and the ship's stabilizers kick in -- it will be smooth sailing.

• Are you sure that this trail ride is headed for Opelousas?

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• So you've come the the Rock 'n' Bowl to roll a few games. Well, I've come here to dance Zydeco so buzz off, Buster!

• Way to go Willie Bushnell! You're getting it!

• Following the 'line-of-dance' at the outdoor Andes Cajun Zydeco Festival in Lima, Peru.

• Group from last year's Dance Committee tramping out the 'line-of-dance' path for the 18th Annual Minnesota Cajun/Zydeco Winterfest.
  
  One of the largest dance events of its type, this year it will feature Geno Delafrosty, Thomas "Snowshoes" Fields, Queen Icy, Sean Crevice, Bruce Dragasleigh, Snowbasin Brothers, C.J. Icecube, BeauBlizzard, and special guests the Hackberry Glaciers.

• Yes, up these stairs to the Rock 'n' Bowl. We have Zydeco music and dancing -- and it's only $5.

• Oh my god!. Did 'Zydeco Bunny' do what I just thought she did?

• And another thing -- you prepy guys from Connecticut coming South to New York City and telling us how to Zydeco dance. Why, we invented the dance!

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• Well what do you expect. If you don't take Zydeco dance lessons, how in Heaven do you expect to improve? Take it from me ... I know ... everything!

• It's my new invention to give your leg extra support when doing the Cajun One-Step

• Everytime it think about those lucky guys living in Louisiana who are able to go out Zydeco dancing every night -I turn green with envy

• Here she comes Jim, but be careful. These Rhode Island Zydeco dancers go through partners in a flash

• The French Cajun Zydeco festival is just up the street, then to the right for two blocks. You can't miss it. Just listen for the loud American music.

• Yes, I know they are playing Zydeco in the other room, and I would love to dance with you. But you'll have to do something about your nails first.

• During the rainy weather we have been having in New Orleans, the only way I could get to the Cajun dances at Mulate's was by wading down Julia St.

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• Now if you just step over here with me ... I would be happy to show you how to Zydeco

• Now look at that brother over there. I didn't know you were allowed to do that move when you Zydeco-ed.

• Four members of the new all female group "El Magnolia Cuchi-Cuchi Zydeco" thank their San Antonio audience at a recent performance. Next stop for the group -- Jazz Fest in New Orleans and the Rock 'n' Bowl. They will also be featured later this year at San Diego's Gator by the Bay CZ Festival as a drawing act.

• I was shaking my booty so much while Zydeco dancing at Houston's Jax Grill the other night that they had to bandage me up. I forgot Zydeco was supposed to be a subtle dance.

• The Dutch developed super fast dance shoe and plan to distribute them free of charge at the next Raamsdonksveer Cajun Zydeco festival. Wood you turn them down?

• You just wait till next year. When I introduce my Zydeco-Troika at the dance contest there is no way that Willy Bushnell is gonna win that competition again.

• Yes, I keep track of the Zydeco beats by counting on my fingers. Of course, on the eighth beat -- I rest.

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• Dick Pimento bemoans the excessive rain that Southern California has had as he stands on the grass dance floor of the San Diego's Gator by the Bay Cajun Zydeco Festival. Dick sez that the grass has grown so vigorously that the promoters may be forced to cancel this year's event as there is no money in the budget for lawn mowing. A grass roots movement is underway to encourage all attendees to bring shears with them to the festival and perhaps clip away the growth to clear an area for music and dance.

• Steve Riley and the Mamou Playboys trade music styles from Hot Cajun to Classical Zydeco. That's Steve in the middle.

• Zydeco bands worried about poor accommodations at Buffalo Gap Dance Camp this year, but promoters assure them that music and laundry facilities are available.

• Transplanted Louisiana couple, the DuBois await Cajun entertainment in Las Vegas. Mandy DuBois and her husband Willy tells us that there is a lack of such performances at the major hotels. They claim that Zydeco artists are all the rage at the show rooms attracting thousands to "Sin City." They want equal time with artists such as Hunter Hays and Bayou Teche to appear right along side Siegfried and Roy.

• Why Yes, she's gone to the facilities, but I would be glad to Cajun dance with you. I'm sure she won't mind. Thanks for asking.

• After being tossed around by an inconsiderate male dancer, follower Bonnie turns the table and applies some of her own "arm-jerk" action.

• Borrowing an idea from the current front pages, Steve Riley of Steve Riley and the Mamou Playboys hires a body/talent double to front his organization so that he can take a year off to rest. This reporter learned that the new front man, who is difficult to distinguish from the real Steve Riley in looks, also plays the accordion and sings with uncanny similarity to Steve. Band member David Greely confesses that even he finds it difficult to tell the difference. The group re-cut their old "Live" album and are distributing it via the Shopping Network on TV. Sales are bubbling!

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• Remember, even though you are a Zydeco Dawg -- you must keep hydrated

• Well they told me that Zydeco dancing was hot but I didn't think it was going to be this hot!

• East Coast Zydeco dance Champion "Lil' Ben" is taking on all comers in a Zydeco Dance Challenge at the Crosby, Texas Zydeco Jamm. Lil' Ben's accordionist, Clifton Welk, warns that the Champion has been waiting to show the Texas dancers how to really dance Zydeco and how he, Clifton, plays the sweetest squeeze-box in Zydecoland. Lil' Ben's brother, "Mike the Slider" will accompany Ben for moral support and after-dance rub-downs.

• First I do a leg lift on the two count and then follow it with a "Seider Slider." That's the way we do Zydeco up here in Chicago.

• Sorry lady, I don't care if you are a relative. You'll just have to stand in line like everyone else. I realize that when Chubby Carrier & The Bayou Swamp Band comes to New York it's a popular Zydeco event and attracts a big crowd, but I am sure you'll be able to get in the club before 1:30am to meet with your cousin

• ....and at intermission of the Cajun dance, they served me a "po-boy" that was this long.

• No one talks while I am instructing Zydeco dance classes at the Rock 'n' Bowl. If you want to socialize with your partner -- socialize on your own time.

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• This isn't a Zydeco trail ride where I come from!

• Not even a wreck on I-10 will keep me from Randol's on a Friday night

• I put my right hand behind her left shoulder and held her right hand and we started to move side to side in a "slow-quick-quick" manner. It was the dammdest thing. I had never danced Zydeco before and now I'm going to have Zydeco bands at every White House party so we can all Pass a Good Time.

• If you are going to be a game show host in the daytime and a killer Zydeco dancer at night, you are going to have to learn a few of the fancy steps. Now just pay attention to me and you'll make out fine. Right Drew?

• "Brad Johnson of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers you've just won the Superbowl! What are you going to do next?" "I'm going to Lafayette, Louisiana for Mardi Gras"

• Yeah, I tried this outfit at the TK Club in Philadelphia and there were at least ten guys dressed just like me. I think I'll stick to the Houston Zydeco clubs where I can dress uniquely.

• What Zydeco Bands do I like? Well ......... I like Lil' Brian, Lil' Pookie, Lil' Malcolm, Lil' Porter, Lil' Fallay, Lil' Buck, J. Paul Jr., and the Zydeco Dots. For other music I also enjoy L'il Band of Gold, Little Anthony, Little Feat, Little Richard, Rich Little, Little River Band, Little Bob, and They Might Be Giants.

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• What do you mean I'm supposed to be Zydeco dancing with the Step Pause Step Step method -- Them is fighting words, friend!

• Let me taste just a little bit of that Zydeco. I always enjoy good Louisiana cooking. (Spoken like a politician)

• Why won't you take a check at the door? I clearly made it out to Richard's Club in the amount of $4.

• One reason young men flock to the Rock 'n' Bowl in New Orleans on New Year's Eve is for the chance to Zydeco dance with a local dancer -- Karleigh.

• Honey, I'll show you how to do REAL Zydeco like we used to do it in Opelousas back in the 50s.

• Mom, your hair smells like Abita beer. Were you out Cajun dancing last night?

• Philip Leflame, drummer for the French Zydeco band, 'Le Hot Bayou' demonstrates his band's signature stage effect that they utilize during their final Zydeco number each night while playing at the Paris night clubs.

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• Now if he tries to get too close again in a Zydeco dance -- I'll be ready for him.

• Hey listen Buster, in Zydeco dancing during 6 out of 8 beats there is no touching -- 'clause I say so!

• Former leader of the Cajun Band Tête à Tête has fallen on hard times. He no longer Heads the band and is now playing street accordion for coins.

• That's what I like about these Houston Zydeco dances. There's always a 4 to 1 ratio for us guys.

• Cajun dancing is just what you need to bring you out of your shell.

• The Kenya Chapter of the National Zydeco Society heads off on their version of a Zydeco Trail Ride

• Well yeah, I think that that outfit is OK for the Alameda's New Year's CZ Dance but remember, Sue wore a very similar one last year.

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• Yes, I actually thought you were Michael Seider the famous XXX rated Zydeco dance instructor. That's why I hired you for this movie.

• Say What? You think I look like Kevin "Hot Dog" Broussard the rubboard man from Dikki Du and the Zydeco Crew? Yeh! You Right! Just hand me that piece of tin and watch a real player scrub.

• And what's all this about Zydeco anyway. As I see it it's just two sweaty people doing some aerobic pre-sex booty shaking. It's easy! You can't go wrong. Even Elaine can dance it. However once I was in Beaumont, Texas in a club and saw a couple dancing. Now that was baaaad Zydeco. Quick, call the Zydeco police.

• Ow!, I promise that the next time I Cajun dance at Randol's I'll move in the direction of the line of dance.

• Noted Zydeco dance instructor Bradley DeChambre of San Francisco outlines the basic Zydeco step for a class of novice students before taking to the dance floor at the local Quality Inn
• Yeh, You Right! Here at Alameda's Eagles Hall we aim to please. Lil' Dame Edna and her Houston Zydeco Band will be right back but, in the meantime, would you like to see my Sporran?

• Ever since Zydeco instructor Mona Wilson taught me the Zydeco Tornado, I've been in a constant whirl.

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• I want to set a course for the United States, go up the Mississippi to the Bayou Teche, surface near I-10 and give my men some well deserved Cajun shore leave.

• Pardon me mate, but do you know the way to the Cajun dance at Whiskey River Landing?

• Steve Riley, eat your heart out. Move over and make way for a new star!

• Now, Sydney, if you go to a new Zydeco dance club, don't give 'em your right name; give them an alias.

• I may be old but I have learned something about Zydeco dancing during my years

• Hi, I'm Sy the Photo Guy ready to take pictures of your family's Zydeco Party - and I'll have them ready in only one hour.

• I'm your Zydeco Cruise director, Carol. As you can see we downsized our ship this year but you should be quite comfortable with your bunk

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• For a hot time on the WEB visit Gary Hayman's Cajun/Zydeco WEB site Recommend by WEB experts!

• So tell me...what airline did you use to fly to the Ft. Lauderdale Cajun Zydeco Festival?

• And let me tell you mate, that down under, in Australia, where I was raised, we go Zydeco dancing at least two times a week at the Billabong Bayou Club

• I'm fairly good at Cajun dancing ... but I do need a little Practice

• Dancers take a well deserved lunch break at the Cajun/Zydeco Buffalo Gap Dance Camp in West Virginia after a busy morning of Zydeco lessons from "Buffalo Ben" Pagac

• If we wiggle it a little more Joanie, maybe some guy will finally ask us to Zydeco dance

• Yeh, Baby. I'm off to Zydeco. Won't you join me? I'm a Goldmember at Hamilton's Club.

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• Some new North Beach San Francisco dancers arriving at Eagles Hall in Alameda, CA to "check out" the Zydeco dance lessons

• If I catch you out after 10pm Zydeco dancing at Hamiliton's -- no more apple pie!

• I really have to rest after an active evening of Zydeco dancing

• Please tune in tomorrow to hear what Dr. Phil (McGraw) has to say about the healing effects of Cajun dancing reminding you that two left feet can be a blessing -- girl.

• Now if I had a fiddle, I could really play you some Cajun music. How would that sound, children? ( Just tell me what you want -- what you really, really want! )

• What? You mean in Zydeco dancing I'm not supposed to get close?

• I like Zydeco music .... Do U 2?

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• Now this is what we call "down and dirty Zydeco" back where I come from

• Top Minnesota Zydeco band captures the "roots" essence of the music. They call themselves the Zydeco 'Prince'-eses

• They really pack them in at the Original Zydeco Jamm in Crosby, Texas

• Who wants to go to La Poussiere with me for some real Cajun dancing?

• You see Eddie, I told you that you would fit right in with this Zydeco crowd at Slim's Y-Ki-Ki

• Christine Balfa fiddles on the porch of Whisky River Landing overlooking the newly completed massive housing project just completed on the shores of the levy of the Atchafalaya Basin. The residential development, "Nutria Acres" (seen in background) is fast becoming the off-campus housing of choice for fun loving - party going University of Louisiana at Lafayette's Ragin' Cajun students.

• One of Lil Pookie's band members arriving at a dance venue during this year's successful East Cost Winter Zydeco Tou

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• Chester, I'm here to Zydeco dance so I wish you would stop horsing around

• Plaisance LA: When organizers of the Southwest Louisiana Zydeco Festival discovered that they now have enough rain in the area to support a new and more profitable cash crop, they switched from a snap-bean field to a vineyard. The crop area, normally used on Labor Day weekend for the famous annual festival, is now no longer available. Future Zydeco festivals will be held at the parking lot of the local Wal*Mart.

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• Grishilde shows us one of her new Zydeco dancing shoes which she bought specifically for the Dutch Original Zydeco Jammm and Cheese Festival held in Edam, Holland each year

• There will always be ladies at Cajun dances who will have the time to dance with you

• Fred Sacher, Austrian Olympist on his way to Salt Lake City, after visiting the famous Rock 'n' Bowl in New Orleans and learning how to dance to Zydeco music confessed that he had "so much fun." He departed stating, "I'll be back!"

• Frances, before I leave to join the troops in Afghanistan I want you to promise me that you will take care of yourself on those Zydeco trail rides

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• The word on the street is that there is only one way to CORRECTLY dance Zydeco.

• The New York CZ group is planning their own Zydeco Cruise of 168 trips around the Statue of Liberty. Performing bands, sponsored by Rounder Records, will be the Zydeco Wheels and Circle de Soileau

• I've come to learn how to Zydeco dance so that I can take the steps back to K-PAX.

• In Texas they'll Zydeco till they die with their sneakers, Mary Janes and boots on

• Let's see... tonight I'll stop in at Randol's, then go to Hamilton's. Tomorrow it will be El Sid O's, and Sunday I'll do both Richard's and Slim's Y-Ki-Ki. That's my game plan.

• Another lady at the door wanting me to take them to a Zydeco dance. Don't they know that at the moment -- I'm into flamenco dancing?

• I was so impressed with her Zydeco dancing that I want to give her my ring

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• Play that funky music

• Hello, I'm Zoolander, Derek Zoolander and I'm your Zydeco date tonight. Patsy Hebert sent me.

• Are the lawyers now in charge of Cajun dancing?

• Zydeco and Nouveau Zydeco dance activists seen pondering how to breach the chasm that has recently developed between the two styles of dancing.

• Well Jerry, I have a secret for you too -- you forgot your 'Secret.'

• I have never been able to figure out why those Alameda ladies won't Cajun dance with me. After all I have been coming to Eagles Hall for years.

• On the Zydeco Cruise there is always the opportunity of dancing with the staff.

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• This year, to the thanks of everyone, the Plaisance Zydeco Festival has been moved to a more environmentally friendly location

• Plaisance Zydeco Festival management to install much needed water misting device to cool off Zydeco dancers.

• The MAAD organization is contemplating roadblocks to prevent exuberant Texas Zydeco fans from arriving at the Plaisance Zydeco Festival already all tanked up.

• East Coast dancers seem to prefer the cool mist and shade of the Ninigret Rhythm & Roots Festival each Labor Day

• Hey, Dennis, nothing I enjoy more than the Plaisance Zydeco Festival in the mud

• Overheard at Whiskey River Landing: "Terry, there's always room to dance here. This place is so deep in the Bayou that it will never attract a big crowd."

• Now class, when we move Counter-clockwise around the floor we are moving in the "line of dance." That's the only way to properly do the Cajun Two-Step.

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• The Long Beach Bayou Festival is the only Cajun & Zydeco mix event of it's type held on a major ship. Here crowds of dancers are awaiting for their turn to board.

• During the popular Big Easy Street Festival (July 13-15, 2001) which is held in Reno/Sparks, Nevada, arrangements have been made with the Department of Motor Vehicles that every three minutes all traffic lights will turn red and traffic will stop for 60 seconds to allow the bands to play and the dancers to Zydeco in the streets.

• Renown Zydeco Instructor teaches his class of "Alternative Zydeco" to a group of Colorado students. When asked where he learned this style, he replied, "Baaaa-sille, Louisiana."

• "Louisiana Sue" led the gigantic Mardi Gras Parade at the recent Big Easy 2001 Festival in Reno/Sparks, Nevada on July 13-15. Thousands of participants, towns-people, and casino goers were in attendance. "Sue" made sure everyone caught beads and had a good time. Sue's special "zydeco" police security team made sure nothing got out of hand and everything ended as scheduled.

• Sid Williams putting the finishing touches on his new club -- El Sido's West. Ready to open for Zydeco dancing next week.

• Dancers line-up in Cajun country getting ready for the afternoon Boucherie prior to the evening dance.

• Mona-Slowbics®: Leading French Zydeco Instructor Mona "Zydeco Reine" Lisa has just invented the new low energy "save your breath" Zydeco technique. Here she demonstrates her famous "crossed-hands" step by taking to the dance floor, being purposely still, and permitting only the slightest subtle smile on her face while she crosses her right hand over her left. (Remember, women cross with their right -- men with their left.) Mona sez that even novice dancers can learn this easy technique and be able to last during three days of hot Zydeco dancing music at European festivals. A low cost "photo snapshot" of Mona (that's all your really need) will be on the market soon.

  I'm only kidding my dear friend Mona "Zydeco Queen" Wilson® with the above. Her great new HIGH ENERGY instruction video "ZYDECO-robics"® has just been released -- it is a MUST for you. See REAL CZ photo/story display #422 (http://users.erols.com/ghayman/cz.real.htm) for more information or contact Mona at: qnzydeco@aol.com or 281-862-2643

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• I've been at Jazz Fest for two days now and I've yet to get near the Fais Do Do Stage. I keep on getting pushed and shoved so much that it's all a blur to me.

• It's Step - Pause - Step - Step NOT Step - Step - Step - Pause otherwise you are not in sync with the music.

• A little more public practice with my Swamp Pop style and I'll be able to join Lil' Band O' Gold

• Ladies at the Ft. Lauderdale Crawfish festival playing with the giant Crawfish pop-overs that they served in the food court.

• The Raamsdonksveer Cajun Zydeco Festival is held in a big multi-floored windmill with bands on each level. There is never a shortage of ground cornmeal for the floor and dancers can dance round and round for the entire weekend.

• All these Jersey Cajun Zydeco Festivals are wearing me to a frazzle.

• The Great Connecticut Cajun Zydeco Festival held in June offers cooler temperatures for dancing than the southern events. Pictured here are festival dancers making their way to the outdoor pavilion for an evening of dancing to Nathan and the Zydeco Cha Cha's.

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• Red-headed overseas dancer impressed Mamou Cajun Mardi-Gras participants a few years back that they built a float in her honor which they parade each year

• Lake Charles' Habibi Temple hosts many Zydeco affairs. On Sunday before Mardi Gras there is always a heavy Zydeco dancing function scheduled

• Actual chicken that escaped the Courir de Mardi Gras riders that roamed Southwest Louisiana on February 27,2001 collecting chickens and other food items for a giant gumbo pot. How did this frazzled chicken do it? By crossing the road. Now you know how smart the chickens are in Louisiana.

• In past years, this was the fashion statement for those attending Zydeco Festivals in Texas. This year, for the Original Zydeco Jamm Festival in Crosby, TX, March 16-17, firearms are not allowed. Everything else is what the typical Zydeco festival dancer would be wearing. (This is not smooth-booty jeans country)

• Gary Hayman, your diligent Webmaster, is off to Hawaii this week studying the possible origin of some Zydeco hip movements. I guess you could call it a business trip

• Scene at the popular Tractor Tavern after exuberant Seattle Zydeco dancers held their normal monthly dance. Owner sez, "...this is a monthly happening and it only take three days to rebuild but the profits from the drink sales to the dancers more than pays for the reconstruction."

• You will stay here while we await your Government to apologize, but while you stay, you must teach us how to Zydeco.

           

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• The heck with "Zydeco" -- I want to do the "Turkey Trot" (Happy Thanksgiving)

• Dutch Zydeco Shoes for dancing at the Raamsdonksveer CZ Festival in May

• Out on the Zydeco Dog Trail Ride in Colorado. One of their best Mardi Gras events

• Cajun Dancers and Zydeco Dancers have a slight disagreement over dance floor space at the popular Gloucester CZ Festival in the United Kingdom last January

• Trendy California women wait eagerly for their next Zydeco partners at Alameda's Eagles Hall

• The 1999/2000 New Year's Eve dance at Fred's Lounge, Mamou, after the renovation

• Famous Historical Moments: "Let's get this inauguration over with quickly. I've got a Zydeco dance to go to"

           

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• Yes! I heard that there were plenty of men waiting to dance at Whisky River Landing
  -- so paddle faster!

• I'm glad Richard's club moved the Zydeco dance outside to the Green. Now I can do my Air Zydeco step that Gary taught me without hitting my head on the low ceiling

• One of our Zydeco Cruise 2000 Dance instructors poses between classes

• Seen on Zydeco Cruise 2000 -- the latest woman's fashion -- Zydeco ankle warmers

• Today's Japanese Vote Quandary: "I don't know whether to vote for Bozo Chavee-san, or Keetha Franco-san for the King of Zydeco."

• I always do my stretching exercises before dancing at Slim's Y-Ki-Ki

• Getting the team hitched for the November Trail Ride in Eunice, LA

           

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• No, it's not all Cajun dancing that makes my calf swell. It's only that damm "one-step" that we do in the grass at Festivals Acadiens.

• The wallflower line-up at a Glen Echo dance in winter. Remember ladies, the first step is with your right foot.

• Clearing the Plaisance Zydeco Festival grounds just prior to the arrival of the audience this past Labor Day Weekend.

• Michael & David Doucet playing from the Ninigret Rhode Island Rhythm & Roots Festival's Main Stage

• If you don't have a Zydeco partner we'll fix you up with one who can dance both parts

• I actually won my medals for Zydeco dancing

• After Cajun One-Steppin' all night I always have to see the foot doctor the next day

           

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• Glad you asked. For exercise I Zydeco at least 18 minutes a day -- and I got it all on tape.

• Behind the scenes: Printing the Cajun/Zydeco ZydE-Zine

• I got my hat from Lil Brian & The Zydeco Travelers when they last visited

• Bien sur, J'aime Le Dance Cajun. I learned at the Saulieu, France Cajun/Zydeco Festival.

• Mick, if you are going to dance the Zydeco Push, at least be more subtle about it!

• Yes, it's the newest fashion. It's called a Zydeco "Circle Skirt"; and my shoes are the lastest in Justin wraps

• This year on the Zydeco Cruise 2000, instead of dancing I want to get some REAL exercise

           

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• Yes Dustin, as soon as I get finished dressing we will go out Zydeco dancing at Hamilton's,
  that is unless.....

• If you can't send Elian Gonzalez home today, at least teach him how to Zydeco dance while he's there

• Zydeco shoes for sale at the Raamsdonksveer Cajun Zydeco Festival in Holland

• Dancers practicing to Leroy Thomas' new album "The Monkey & The Baboon"

• I know you are tired from your trip Marie-Anne, but just one more Cajun dance before we part -- pleeeze

• In Lafayette, nearly everyone reads the "ZydE-Zine"

• The man who just hired all the Zydeco bands in the WORLD for one big week long dance party in Washington State.

           

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• Joel, this closed Zydeco position is getting a little boring. Can we dance in an open position -- pleeeze?

• I'm sorry, what did you say Dolores? My mind was on the Zydeco Extravaganza

• I warned you Fred, that at Festivals Acadiens you either dance in dust or mud

• I've heard of warm-up socks for Zydeco dancing, Linda, but isn't this taking it a bit too far?

• Fan (Joan) chains herself up front at a Steve Riley concert so she wouldn't loose her place

• The question for today: Is she going to Zydeco dance all day and all night; that Maryann?

• The newest rage in San Diego -- Water Zydeco

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