Some Roman Catholic churchmen, meanwhile, have said that the words "hokey pokey" derive from "hocus pocus" -- the Oxford English Dictionary concurs -- and that the song was written by 18th-century Puritans to mock the language of the Latin Mass. Last year the Catholic Church in Scotland, concerned that some soccer fans were using the song as a taunt, raised the possibility that singing it should be prosecuted as a hate crime.

Got that? You so much as tell me to put my right hand in and you're going to hear from my solicitor.