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Friday 2 August, 11.00pm
Too hot to handle
A question, dear readers: Have any of you heard of an arcane schoolboy ritual known as ‘the rancid’ fire dance? Well, rest assured, those of you who haven’t will soon be all too familiar with it. Earlier this evening, I referred to a rumour that’s been plaguing Opposition Leader Lou Feeney. Now I can reveal that this rumour pushes the view that Mr Feeney is all too well acquainted with ‘the rancid’.
As I understand it, to dance ‘the rancid’, the dancer strips down to his underpants, wedges a rolled-up section of newspaper into his crotch, with equal amounts of the paper protruding from his front and backsides. Both ends of the paper are then set on fire, and the dancer jumps and gyrates until things get too hot for his private parts. He then signals for the dance ‘marshalls’ to douse the flames.
Mr Feeney has admitted to me that he danced ‘the rancid’ in front of students of all ages in his final month at school. And while he concedes that it was a juvenile and somewhat dangerous thing to do, he rejects claims that he achieved sexual gratification during the course of the dance. A number of former St Phillips students have confirmed what he says in this regard.
Interestingly, three readers now tell me that the men they heard discussing the dance rumour had New Zealand accents. Fush and chups anyone? How about darty trucks?