It was in 1996
when Larry LaPrise, who wrote "The Hokey Pokey", died at the age of 84. To hear tell of it, the family was coping reasonably well up to the point of putting the body into the casket.

They put the left leg in... and then the trouble started.
( Wanderer, Mon 4 Mar 2013, 11:51, 8 replies)

I don't think I've come across that joke for quite literally two decades.

( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Mon 4 Mar 2013, 11:56, closed)

He hasn't been dead for two decades yet.
Nonetheless...
( Wanderer, Mon 4 Mar 2013, 11:59, closed)

OK, then - 17 years.

( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Mon 4 Mar 2013, 12:03, closed)

I'd say that so far it's one of the better answers, though.
Unless you prefer ASCII drawings and random photos, of course.
( Wanderer, Mon 4 Mar 2013, 12:05, closed)

Apparently in New Zealand they call it the Hokey Tokey

( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Mon 4 Mar 2013, 11:58, closed)

Bloody forrins.

( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Mon 4 Mar 2013, 12:04, closed)

If we're going to get pedantic, Larry LaPrise may have held the US Copyright for a while
but he almost certainly didn't write the song, which is usually credited to Jimmy Kennedy (words) and Al Tabor (music)
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Mon 4 Mar 2013, 12:13, closed)

What was it all about? (from his bins)

( edjogs Collared doves are shit., Mon 4 Mar 2013, 17:01, closed)