What do you call a group of MJ-ers?

[Jhutch]

Sorry for being picky but there must be a better way of describing groups of dancers rather than a 'clump?' I have always used it to mean walking around in quite a clumsy way - and the dictionary gives it the same meaning (like clomp). Unless the thread is really a comment on the standards of dancing in different areas?

[Twirly]

I thought at first this was a thread suggesting we have little sections of the dance floor set aside for dancers who want to 'clump around'. Alternatively that it was about congestion in an area of the dance floor - eg 'all the hotshots clump together to the right of the stage...'

I thought it was about the tendency of hot shots to dance near the stage, less exprienced to dance near the back of the room... (again)

[Dreadful Scathe]

Sorry for being picky but there must be a better way of describing groups of dancers rather than a 'clump?' I have always used it to mean walking around in quite a clumsy way - and the dictionary gives it the same meaning (like clomp).

Clump means a small cluster too, which is what i took it to mean, as its how i use the word. Yes you are being picky, overly so The most annoying pedantry is from those who argue over a correct definition of a word because they like another definition better

So now we've derailed a perfectly good thread with this nonsense. Shame on you jhutch, shame.

[Jhutch]

Clump means a small cluster too, which is what i took it to mean, as its how i use the word. Yes you are being picky, overly so The most annoying pedantry is from those who argue over a correct definition of a word because they like another definition better

So now we've derailed a perfectly good thread with this nonsense. Shame on you jhutch, shame.

Wouldnt cluster be better then? I use the word to mean cluster as well but just thought that the using a word to describe dancers that also means clumsy was not the best word.

Ok then, i accept it, i dragged it off-thread by offering a completely unreasonable observation. I will tell my mum off for teaching me defintions of words that you can find in the dictionary

[Dreadful Scathe]

must admit i have never used, or even heard others use, clump to mean clumsy, so that'll be why it never occured to me

still, what DavidJames meant by clump was "stupid talentless 'pretend dancers' of modern jive" so the point is moot anyway.

[David Bailey]

Ok then, i accept it, i dragged it off-thread

Not for long

still, what DavidJames meant by clump was "stupid talentless 'pretend dancers' of modern jive" so the point is moot anyway.

Yeah, pretty much

[Gav]

a bounce of Cerocers?

[Twirly]

A yank of Cerocers? Or could a yank be a small group and a bounce be a big group?

[FirstMove]

Surely it's a Forum of cerocers?

[Twirly]

Surely it's a Forum of cerocers?

Nah - that's just the elite

[Dreadful Scathe]

surely Deadly or Dangerous rather than Elite ? only DavidJames made it that far.....

[under par]

Surely MJ is so much fun.... it should be a jolliness of MJers.. or a glee!

At Blackpool comp there is a sparkling of MJ competitors.

[Sheepman]

Shouldn't it be a "basket"?
Or, in the case of a collection of yankers, bouncers, and those that think only they own the dancefloor, a "menace"?

Greg

[ducasi]

A step of dancers?

A sway of Modern Jivers?

A semi-circle of Cerocers?

[bigdjiver]

A group of animals is often called a "herd", for me a group of MJ'ers is a "scene".