The Rain Dance

Saturday 16th June 2007
Great Yarmouth, UK.

Video Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Z_6FT-xB5s

Kieran: I'm the idiot in the box

Tom: I put together the rain hat in the morning before I left to meet the others. As you can tell, it wasn't the most effort-laden hat ever, but it beat the others who didn't make anything. Kieran did however wear the box we were going to use for a "take something leave something" box, until it got wet.

We arrived at Market Gates bus station at 10:30, and we decided to set off for the seafront, on account of the two policemen walking around and shooting disapproving glances at the group of teens with 2 cardboard boxes and a hat with "RAIN" etched on it.

When there, we decided on the rain dance as our first task. So, we got 'dressed' and started to dance. We didn't plan a dance out, which we probably should have done. It sort of ended up as a cross between a 'dad' dance, and a spinning thing.

However, after finishing that we decided on setting up our public easel. Once it had been setup, it started to rain! This has now been accounted to daryls dance, as whenever he did it later in the day, it started again.

But yes, we did get wet.



The ceremonial dress
The rain hat
The rain hat, sported by me (tom) in the video, is of vital significance to the aquadancology of the rain dance. As you may see in the following chart, possibility of rain directly correlates with the amount of 'hat with rain written on it' present at the time of the dance.



Experianced aquadancologist Stanley Gibbons has this to say on the matter.

"As a leader in the field of aquadancology, I would like to explain exactly why the hat is so important to the modern rain dance.
The rain hat, is merely a hat with the word rain written on it. However it is not any technical wizardry that makes the hat so good at rain summoning. The wearer is briefly taken over by the awsomeness of the hat, and the wearer, controlled by the hat, is now capable of ancient raindancing techniques. Such techniques include the awkward jig, the stupidus spiniscus and the infamously difficult standing still looking like a prat."

This diagram shows the passage of awsomeness from rain hat to wearer.


The ancient breastbox of raquaina
Said (rack-wayne-ah)

This brestbox, rumoured to have origionated from Russia, also has rain altering powers. This object owes iits prowess to supernatural powers. Many aquadancologists disagree with the idea that this mystical iitem has any domination over rain and believe this is a myth created when someone danced with the breastbox and a rain hat. However a small group of rebelios scientists say that this box has even more influence over the rain than a rain hat. The most common solution to this problem is to simply use both, which we did.

This is the most widely accepted equation for rain-