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Nutbush City Limits researchers trace origins of renowned dance to NSW education department (www.abc.net.au)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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In short: Researchers have found the dance routine to Nutbush City Limits was invented by the New South Wales education department.

The Nutbush was distributed to teacher training institutions as a teaching aid in 1975, researchers said.

There have been attempts to create a world record for the number of people dancing at one time, with the record standing at 6,594.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

No one outside Australia even remembers this song exists and the entire phenomena is the highest form of cringe culture that Australia has produced.

I’m proposing to nominate it as a crime against humanity under the auspices of the United Nations.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

@maculata
Maybe people will stop doing it when they hear a government department came up with it. 🤞

@zero_gravitas

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Australian DJ in London: puts on that fucking song. All Australians in party or club: start doing that fucking shit. Everyone else: fucking leaves.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

@maculata I never learnt it, but as a teenager I knew a large number of scout/rover types who did. Every party, 18th, 21st, even a couple of weddings, it would come on and every one of them would get up and do it. At the time I felt very left out, but later I realised I'd been lucky.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

As an emigrant I really dread my citizenship test when I’ll be asked to perform The Dance.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

@maculata 😬
(I may be deported now I've publicly admitted I never learnt it.)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

You can come hide in my basement.

Edit: do you think Tina Turner’s role in MM2 was in part due to the NBCL legacy and do you think there might be any hidden references to it in the film?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

@maculata Thanks! 😅