Creature Languages, 4/6, Period 3

[game-of-you.livejournal.com]

Dream may have drawn some inspiration from the dancing lemurs of the day before, because The B-52's song Rock Lobster is blaring on an endless loop as students file in, and the desks have been pushed to the side, creating a makeshift dance floor.

"Hello. Today, we are going to learn about the lobster. Our text is an English version of an old Lobster folk tale. In Lobster, it is called, "The Human Invaders Celebrate." The translation, however, is called "Rock Lobster."

Spend this class period practicing the folk dance, as shown in in your handouts."


We were at a party
His ear lobe fell in the deep
Someone reached in and grabbed it
It was a rock lobster

We were at the beach
Everybody had matching towels
Somebody went under a dock
And there they saw a rock
It wasn't a rock
It was a rock lobster

Motion in the ocean
His air hose broke
Lots of trouble
Lots of bubble
He was in a jam
He's in a giant clam

Down, down...

Underneath the waves
Mermaids wavin'
Wavin' to mermen
Wavin' sea fans
Sea horses sailin'
Dolphins wailin'

Red snappers snappin'
Clam shells clappin'
Mussels flexin'
Flippers flippin'

Down, down...

Let's rock!

Boys in bikinis
Girls in surfboards
Everybody's rockin'
Everybody's fruggin'

Twistin' round the fire
Havin' fun
Bakin' potatoes
Bakin' in the sun

Put on your noseguard
Put on the lifeguard
Pass the tanning butter

Here comes a stringray
There goes a manta ray
In walked a jelly fish
There goes a dogfish
Chased by a catfish
In flew a sea robin
Watch out for that pirahna
There goes a narwhal
Here comes a bikini whale!

Comments

Re: Classwork, Creature, 4/6

[soldtoarmenians]

Xander listens to the instructions, takes one look at his classmates dancing, and... well, there's only two options when faced with a scene like this: pretend it's not happening and that you go to school in some safe, normal, boring place like East LA, or remember you're in Fandom, admit you know all the steps to Spice Up Your Life, and duck out to go get something from your dorm room.

"Be right back."

Re: Classwork, Creature, 4/6

[game-of-you.livejournal.com]

"We will wait," Dream said, affably enough.

Re: Classwork, Creature, 4/6

[soldtoarmenians]

After being gone for about five minutes, Xander returned wearing a Lobster Hut t-shirt, and with two red pipe-cleaners duct-taped to his forehead. He was holding an entire bag of similar pipe-cleaners, and the rest of the roll of tape.

"It just seemed necessary somehow. I blame Nadia." He looked down at the shirt. "And, oddly, Cordelia. who I miss, and pardon me while I take a moment to reflect on the comparative bizarritude of that statement versus, say, dancing about lobsters."

He put the pipe-cleaners and tape out for anyone who cared to partake, then, well... joined in the dancing. But with antennae.

Re: Classwork, Creature, 4/6

[bruiser-in-pink.livejournal.com]

Molly totally took two pipe cleaners and stuck them in her hat before she returned to dancing.