DO YOU REMEMBER.... CHICKEN FAT!

      

(Click on the Chicken Fat button to hear the song)
How many of you remember this morning grade school ritual?  It wasn't until I moved to Hawaii in '71 that I was subjected to this nationally approved form of mass humiliation.  Every school morning, immediately following the Pledge (yes, were allowed to say it back then, and even said 'Under God') we would gather outside on the basketball court and do this perfectly choreographed routine, and we HATED it!  We didn't dare complain though, because afterwards the complainers would have to lay down on their backs and do the 'dying cockroach' while the rest of the school filed past on their way back into the building.  For those of you lucky enough never to have been exposed to the 'dying cockroach', its 10x worse than doing Chicken Fat... you have to lay on your back with your arms and legs in the air and kick and flail like a roach until the teacher deems you have been learned to appreciate the life long benefits gained from having to do a calisthenics routine every morning.  I'm telling you, it was like a Board of Education sanctioned boot camp!  And those teachers never participated with us, they just walked around with their hands clasped behind their backs, smirking like prison wardens... cos they knew if we made any comments about their Chicken Fat butts, we'd be down on our backs again, doing the dying cockroach... again!