OK, just for fun, I checked with Snopes to see what they had to say about La
Prise's "death."  It also includes several other jokes of varying degrees of
humor.

http://www.snopes.com/humor/question/requests.asp

The La Prise joke is toward the end, and apparently dates back at least to
the death of the Queen Mum.


On 5/9/07, Kendall D. Corbett <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Mike,
>
> I like it, but how many times does poor Mr LaPrise have to die?  I first
> heard of his "untimely demise" after Columbine, again after 9/11....
>
>
>  On 5/9/07, greta von der luft <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> > okay, that is funny in a macabre way....
> >
> > On 5/9/07, Michael H. Collis < [log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > > With all the sadness and trauma going on in the world at the moment,
> > it is worth reflecting on the death of a very important person, which almost
> > went unnoticed last week.
> > >
> > > Larry LaPrise, the man that wrote "The Hokey Pokey" died peacefully at
> > the age of 93. The most traumatic part for his family was getting him into
> > the coffin. They put his left leg in. And then the trouble started.
> > >
> > > Shut up. You know it's funny.
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>
> Kendall
>
> An unreasonable man (but my wife says that's redundant!)
>
> The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one
> persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress
> depends on the unreasonable man.
>
> -George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950




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Kendall

An unreasonable man (but my wife says that's redundant!)

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one
persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress
depends on the unreasonable man.

-George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950

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