Monday, September 23, 2013

Chicken Dance

The political equivalent to the Chicken Dance has started in the German capital Berlin - the official name of the political Chicken Dance is 'negotiating a coalition government'. At the same time, the drinking and singing version is being performed at Oktoberfests across the country and the world.

The renowned German penchant for precision gets drowned in huge steins of beer once a year when they call the fest of fests Oktoberfest, yet start it in September.

Only, well, it is not the Chicken Dance. In Germany, it's the Duck Dance.

When it was first introduced in the U.S., the Americans where shocked to see that the Germans had not brought duck costumes for the dance.

Frantic telephone calls were made for a costume.

When they finally found a costume, it was a chicken costume.

Wikipedia disagrees on how the dance got the name that stuck in English.

We think precisely this disagreement makes Chicken Dance the ideal term for what is going on in Berlin after a heady election night.

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