That day, two people approached to speak to us, both young men. But skirmishes occur in the lives of even the most pacific of people. Then they pack their signs back into their cars and go about their quiet, mostly peaceful lives. They stand for 45 minutes on the corner facing the post office and hold signs with slogans like Bring our troops home and Who benefits? Who pays? and Honk if you love peace. What exactly would we be protesting now?īut protest was the wrong word. This small group, which had been standing every Friday on the plaza since mid-March 2002, had first formed to protest the invasion of Afghanistan. “We’re going to protest,” I had written to friends curious about how I was spending my days. Two weeks later in Socorro, New Mexico, I stood on the town plaza with my mother and four other demonstrators. What kind of theme is that-a prostitute with the clap? And why flat feet? Then the song faded from my mind. The song, I learned, was a hit in 1938 and has been covered by a number of artists over the years. But floy floy was left, and it got past the censors, who must not have recognized it as a term for venereal disease. The flat foot floogie was, in the first version of the Slim & Slam song, a floozie, altered by their record company to keep the censors off their back. And you might be surprised at the answer. What does that mean, and what’s a floogie, you might wonder, as I did, the song coming to mind as I watched a pair of dogs hop from foot to foot on the hot surface of a parking lot. He had a lot of latitude in interpreting it because the refrain is nonsensical: floy doy floy doy. The Mills Brothers sang about the flat foot floogie with the floy floy, and Fred Astaire danced to the song. Stephen Melkisethian (Flickr/stephenmelkisethian)
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