Post #202623 by Thomas on Sun, Dec 11, 2005 4:04 PM

On 2005-12-11 13:21, ScottMcGerik wrote:
we had a limbo contest ... [to] ... a selection of exotica, surf, and hapa haole. I wonder what this person expected to limbo to?

Well, I'm no stickler for this stuff, but wouldn't the answer be some type of Caribbean music? I agree with your point that speaking up to a host in that manner was uncool. It would be much classier in my opinion to hold one's tongue and enjoy the festivities. You seem to be saying that he was dismissive of the music itself. That would irk me too. But doing the limbo to Exotica and Hawaiian? I have to say in all honesty, I'm not quite with you on that either. It seems a little discordant, like doing a hula dance to calypso, though as a guest I wouldn't speak up about it in the way he did.

I am operating on the assumption that the limbo is strongly associated with the Caribbean, not Polynesia and, by extension, Polynesian pop. If I'm wrong about this, someone please correct me.