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Friday, July 02, 2004

I don’t know why there was a stripper’s pole on the Jerry Springer show today. I joined the program in progress so don‘t look to me for any explanations. What I did see is, at the urgings of the chanting crowd, a woman get of her chair and climb up on the pole and swing around. I’m pretty sure that Jerry was only joking when he suggested that the elderly woman in the audience who wanted to say something to “that whore in the blue shirt on the end” was going to be the next person on the pole. This old woman in the audience - she was really, really, old, and none too steady on her feet. I doubt she had the upper body strength to competently executive any really cool strippers’ pole moves. Maybe she could like, hump it or something, but that’s it. The crowd didn‘t care. Immediately, the crowd started chanting, “Go on the pole! Go on the pole!” at the old woman, who got this really horrified look on her face and started to take a few feeble and shaky steps toward the stage before Jerry explained to her that she really didn’t have to go on the pole, even though the crowd was chanting that she should. So I’ve been thinking about it. If Jerry’s going to take sides against the chanting of the audience, then the chants probably aren’t started by the producers. It makes me wonder: who starts those chants? Is it just some dude in the audience? It can’t be that easy because there’s a lot that goes into starting a chant. First, it’s got to be a good chant, with the right number of syllables. You know, one that’s got a ring to it. Second, it takes a lot of confidence to start a chant; the chant-starter has to chant by him or herself loud enough to start it up, but if the audience doesn’t start in, that would be really embarrassing for the would-be chant starter. Starting a good chant involves serious leadership. I won’t even try to tell you about all the horrible things that went wrong with the chant I tried to start today on the number 22 bus. Only a few people chanted with me, and the bus driver - he didn’t even consider doing what we were chanting for him to do. Needless to say, I’m never going to try to start a chant on the bus again. Sadly, it appears that I am lacking in the leadership skills required by chant-starting. I suppose I can still be the guy who shouts, “Yo Quiero Taco Bell!“ really loudly on the bus. They can’t take that away from me because it doesn‘t require audience participation. Yeah, “Yo Quiero Taco Bell” - it’s an oldie but a goodie.

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