Oki Kokey Almanac... Why ?

[Badger]

I read in PBO that the Reeds Nautical Almanac has been aquired by A&C Black the publishers of Adlard Coles. Ok so what ? From 2005 the main sponsor of the volume will be Oki sytems UK and it will be known as the Reeds Oki Almanac.

Why ? I don't want an Oki Almanac, I want a nautical almanac with the word Nautical in big letters on the cover. What's going to be in it ? How to change a toner cartridge ? And why does it need a main sponsor ? Also what the hell do Oki think they are going to get out of this ??

You may think I am getting worked about nothing but the nautical almanac has a special place in our boating tradition and this is the dumbest thing I ever heard. Rant Over.

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[Twister_Ken]

\'nuff said

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[Evadne]

If it keeps the cost of the almanac down, they can advertise anything they want on the front cover. Just don't make it more difficult to find the tide stream pages.

Personally, I don't think it's been the same since Reed's succumbed to MacMillan's. They used to have a map of the UK with the position of Sunderland, home of the finest football team in the country, prominently marked. (Howay the lads). (And no snidey comments about that position being at the bottom of the league, please.)

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[jamesjermain]

Better than cancer sticks

I have no reason to doubt it will be almost exactly the same as the present Reeds. Sponsorship should mean the cost will be kept down.

Did you have a rant over the Macmillan Silk Cut Almanac? If you were happy to support cancer I can't see you should have a problem with printer cartridges

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[Badger]

Re: Better than cancer sticks

James, I think you may have missed my point. According the the piece on page 11 of PBO it is no longer going to be called a nautical almanac.Even when Silk Cult were involved it was still called the Macmillan Reeds Silk Cut Nautical Almanac. It is now going to be called The Reeds Oki Almanac.This is assuming this has been accurately reported by PBO or have you just hired Andrew Gilligan

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[jamesjermain]

Re: Better than cancer sticks

I suppose Adlard Coles will say 'don't judge a book by its cover'... but I take your point

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[pvb]

Re: Better than cancer sticks

You missed out the word "allegedly" didn't you?

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[Peppermint]

Re:Not \'nuff said

What a truely awful attempt at an almanac this was/is.

Mine got used once and thats the end of it.

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[Joe_Cole]

Re:Not \'nuff said

You're right. I saw it at LBS and the salesman told me how up to date it was. The first thing I looked at was clearly out of date. I'm not going to bother with it.

I think I'll stick with Reeds....whatever it's called.

Joe

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[Twister_Ken]

The boy stood on the burning deck

I'm not going to defend it to the death, because every almanac has its failings, but I do find the port info is very good and halfway to being a pilot guide, and I like having all the tidal stuff in a separate booklet which I can keep handy. And I applaud the idea of a 2 year Almanac, which cuts down on tossing 6lbs of paper away on December 31st.

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[cgull]

Perhaps one page could be devoted to the lyrics of the Hokey Cokey.
Anybody know who actually wrote the song?

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[Joe_Cole]

Re: Oki Kokey: Nautical version

You put your port leg in.
You put your port leg out
In out.............?



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[jhr]

Who wrote the hokey cokey

Can't remember his name, but they had a real problem getting him into a coffin when he died.

They put his left leg in............... then the trouble started. /forums/images/icons/wink.gif

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[BrendanS]

Hmm! many theories on origin - cobbled this lot together from various bits on the internet. None of the origins are proven

The Hokey Pokey is a participation dance that became popular in the USA in the 1950s. Larry LaPrise, Charles Macak and Tafit Baker were granted the copyright for the song in 1950. According to popular legend they created this novelty dance in 1949 as entertainment for the ski crowd at Idaho's Sun Valley resort. Ray Anthony's big band recording of the song turned it into a nationwide sensation by the mid-1950s. The "Hokey Pokey" appeared on the B side of Anthony's "Bunny Hop" single.) Its rights were purchased in the mid-1960s by country-western music star Roy Acuff's publishing company, Acuff-Rose.

It has virtually the same lyrics as the "Hokey-cokey", a song and novelty dance which has been popular in England since the mid-1940s. In additional to the lyrics, these two songs also share similar dance moves, as well as stringly similar names. "Hokey-cokey" is also known as "Okey-cokey".

There are many theories and conjectures about the meaning of the words "Hokey Pokey", and of their origin.

This one sounds interesting:

back in 17th century Puritan England anything 'popish' or Roman Catholic was viewed with great suspicion and open to, at best, ridicule. The Hokey-Cokey, with its song and actions, is a mimicry of the Roman Catholic Mass.

In those days the priest faced the altar (not the people) and performed several actions as he consecrated the bread and wine at Holy Communion. The words of the service were in Latin. You put your left arm in ......etc was ridiculing the priest as he lifted his arms heavenward during the rite. You do the Hokey- Cokey and you turn around............ was when the priest turned to face the congregation with the host (consecrated bread) to offer it to them.

Ooooh, the Hokey-Cokey......... hokey-cokey is a corruption of the Latin words of consecration - Hoc est corpus: 'This is my body' (Note: many of the strange words and phrases of our language are corruptions of other languages introduced to our country over the years and few were educated enough to speak or understand Latin). Knees bend, arm stretch, ra-ra-ra....... knees bend is a ridicule of the genuflection (a kind of religious curtsey to the altar) of the priest, arm stretch is when he holds up his hands at the point of consecration in the service, and ra-ra-ra is just a mimicry of the Latin words and prayers they didn't understand.


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