Richard Mckeever wrote:
> I like Susan Kevra's 'Trip to Phane' reel - but it seems to get
> called more around Thanksgiving - maybe it is ready for a second
> holiday.
Dorcas Hand wrote:
>
> Gosh - I thought it was the Tryptophan Reel, after the amino acid
> found in quantity in Turkey, which is why it is called at
> Thanksgiving.
Total speculation, but this sounds like it's related to pinewoods
bathrooms. Many (all?) of the bathrooms are named after "trip to"
dances with the "trip to" left off: "tunbridege", "kilburn", etc. My
guess is someone named one of the bathrooms off the kitchen "phane" [1]
as a pun, and then someone wrote a dance to match. Or the bathroom
could be named after the dance.
Jeff
[1] The name is unfortunate: it needs a sign saying "this is a bathroom,
not a phonebooth" that it wouldn't need if it were further from "phone"
