Every year the Morale team puts together a "Line Dance" that is full of current events, both local to Penn State and national. The line dance is "performed" by all the dancers once/hour for all 48 hours. It doesn't take long to learn it when you're there and it was so fun to look forward to. This is what's going on in the picture above. Here's the line dance from 2001 when I first particpated in THON!
Come on let's dance, dance
Reach within (1), find the cure
Kids, kids
The kids are who we're dancin' for
Right! (2)
Subway series (3)
Subway diet (4)
Chad got pregnant
What a riot (5)
Crikey that was close! (6)
Ritenour, wait an hour (7)
Parking ticket (8),
Verizon picket (9)
My cell phone's blowin' up (10)
Surviving on Temptation Island (11)
Dude, where's my girlfriend? (12)
As one, we stand together
Why? To conquer cancer
Hey! A little bit louder
For the kids!
Within reach
Almost there
Whoa! Livin' on a prayer (13)
Thon two double-oh one
We are! - Penn State!
Hey you guys! (14)
Whasssssup? (15)
Scuba Steve says (16)
Sigesacky sigesacky, hoy hoy hoy! (17)
Hercules, Hercules (18)
How you doin? (19)
Whoa! (20)
D'oh! (21)
Hey Jeff, pump up the volume
Moore, Moore, Larry Moore (22)
Men's gymnasts, Icers too
National champs, so proud of you (23)
Crispin brothers' game is on (24)
Replay, replay, Jumbotron (25)
We believe! We believe in 43! (26)
Wilson volleyball, man's best friend (27)
Hoops and denim, latest trend (28)
Got mullets? (29)
Things that make you go hmm. (30)
U-G-L-Y. You ugly, big ugly. (31)
M'm m'm good. (32)
As if, Shaa! (33)
Dude. Sweet. Dude! Sweet! (34)
Ditdoolioo ditdoolioo (33)
I see you baby
Shakin' that can, shakin' that can (35)
Courage, wisdom, honesty, strength (36)
Fourty-eight, on your feet (37)
No sitting, no sleep
A child's life: priceless (38)
As one, we stand together
Why? To conquer cancer
Hey! A little bit louder
For the kids!
Saving lives.
Hershey cares. (39)
Whoa! Livin' on a prayer
Thon two double-o one
We are! - Penn State! (40)
We believe! We believe it's within reach!
1. "Within Reach" - Thon's 2001 theme
2. Quote from Dr. Evil of Austin Powers movies
3. New York Mets vs. New York Yankees in the 2000 World Series
4. Remember Jared who lost weight by eating subs?
5. Pregnant chads, in the riotous Florida presidential election recount
6. Quote from Steve Irwin, "The Crocodile Hunter"
7. Flu season lines at University Health Services
8. Infamous campus parking problems
9. 2000 phone company strike
10. A quip people make when cellular phones ring in public
11. Survivor and Temptation Island, reality-based TV shows
12. The movie title Dude, Where's My Car? applied to Temptation Island
13. From Bon Jovi's "Livin' on a Prayer"
14. Quote from Sloth in the movie The Goonies
15. Quote from the beer-drinking guys in the Budweiser commercials
16. A reference to the movie Big Daddy.
17. Quote from the beer-drinking guys on The Man Show
18. From Nutty Professor II: The Klumps
19. Quote from Joey on TV's Friends
20. Quote from Joey Lawrence on TV's Blossom
21. Quote from Homer Simpson
22. Two of Thon's audio-visual staff
23. Penn State sports teams that won championships in 2000
24. Penn State basketball stars Joe and Jon Crispin
25. New video screen in Beaver Stadium
26. Penn State football player Adam Taliaferro, No. 43, who suffered a serious spinal cord injury during the Ohio State football game
27. From the movie Cast Away
28. Trendy earrings and jean stuff
29. Short-on-the-top, long-in-the-back haircuts people make fun of. Also hits the "Got Milk?" ads.
30. C+C Music Factory's hit song.
31. Big Uglys are hot dog-like products sold at Unimart
32. Big Uglys are good enough to call on the old Campbell's Soup slogan.
33. From the movie Wayne's World.
34. From the movie Dude, Where's My Car?
35. From Groove Armada's "I See You Baby." The word can is a pun here, as in when dancers "can" to make money, or as in your moneymaker.
36. Christopher Millard's story "The Four Diamonds," the inspiration for the Four Diamonds Fund that Thon supports.
37. For our off-campus readers: Thon lasts 48 hours.
38. MasterCard commercials.
39. Hershey refers to the Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, home of the Four Diamonds Fund.
40. Thank you! You're welcome!
1 comment:
I loved Dance Marathon....We did the same thing at Iowa (YEAH BIG 10)....It was quite awhile ago but I won't mention which decade!!! But here is the link to Iowa's Dnace Marathon http://www.uiowa.edu/~dancemar/
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