Re: [Callers] Alternate Role Terms

[Masha Goodman Crawford]

"For this dance, decide which one of you is going to be the lady and which one 
of you will be the gent.  Put the lady on the right.
Don't worry, it's not permanent, I promise.  In another dance I'm gonna call 
you "foxes" and "squirrels" - 
they're just traditional calls that rhyme well - I promise no one will actually 
sprout a tail or any other bodily appendage."  
or
"Decide who's going to be the lady & who's going to be the gent.  Don't worry - 
I *know* none of you are really [gentlemen/ladies] - That implies good manners 
and decorum." 
or 
"Decide who's going to dance the role of Lady and who's going to pretend to be 
a Gent.  Someone told me once I should use other non-gender-specific
words like "Aardvark" and "Duck", but I kept getting into trouble with the 
rhymes.... So now I stick with Lady and Gent.  Much safer."