As others see us

[MsPeaches]

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WHO KNOWS where it came from?!!!

All I know is that we first heard about it in Canada in the 1960s.

Somebody should research its history - if ongly dem a too idle fi do ennytin betta.

WAHALLA????

O I C. RichD filled the bill

[Wendy]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: R_C</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: RichD</div><div class="ubbcode-body">how was the rest of the evening? </div></div>

It went ok......once I told them I was actually from Guyana...they left me alone.

<span style="font-size: 8pt">(Guyana...no one had a clue)</span> </div></div>

Too funny

[neutral]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: RichD</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Natral_browning</div><div class="ubbcode-body">LOl !.....funny about that limbo thing,I,ve never seen anyone in Jamaica do the limbo,except at hotels infront of tourists.,...where the hell did it come from. </div></div>

Limbo is from Trinidad </div></div>

Someone must have really bend over backwards to think up a game like that.

[Blackstar*]

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<span style="font-weight: bold">Limbo </span>by Lord Tickler
From the Album &quot;Take Me To Jamaica: The Story Of Jamaican Mento&quot;
Listen to sample
<span style="font-size: 8pt"><span style="font-style: italic">Can't find a full-length version.</span> </span>

[Wahalla]

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I thought it was Trini.. of West African orgin.. Legba or Lembra dance.. Never really bothered me..

By the way I have used work songs including Dayo.. 1980's diging marl in a crew... and weeding grass...

[Wahalla]

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Wastn there a song called

Limbo, Limbo like mi

Funny enough I was at a party last night with some Italians who were doing the Limbo.. they never asked me to do it.. I dont dance.. shrapnel in lthe lower back severed a couple nerves...

[Wahalla]

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Memory was good.. it seems.. I never considered its orgins..

http://www.tntisland.com/limbo.html

[R_C]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Wahalla</div><div class="ubbcode-body">By the way I have used work songs including Dayo.. 1980's diging marl in a crew... and weeding grass... </div></div>
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Wahalla</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I dont dance.. shrapnel in lthe lower back severed a couple nerves... </div></div>

I love the internet...

[CyberPhobic]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Wahalla</div><div class="ubbcode-body">

I dont dance.. <span style="font-weight: bold">shrapnel in lthe lower back severed a couple nerves</span>... </div></div>