Clip of the Week: December 28, 2022
On December 28, 2022 by Elyse
First, they banned dancing (multiple times). Then, they banned alcohol and hat ticklers. Now, not even kissing is allowed?!?
It is an annual custom to hold a “social” on Boxing Night. This year the new minister, the Rev. Moffatt Gautrey, decided that the kissing game which had formerly been allowed at the social should not be permitted.
An announcement to this effect was resented by a considerable number of young men, who enlarged on their rights and spoke much about the custom which had always prevailed. But the minister was obdurate. He said he would not allow kissing in his church building, which was for other purposes altogether.
In the end the young men found refuge in the vestry, where they conducted an entertainment of their own. This they maintained to the end. Their substitute for kissing apparently was leap-frog, which they indulged in for a large proportion of the time.
The church authorities were on the side of the minister, and the ministerial party certainly carried the day.
– The Weekly Mail, January 5, 1907
They say you have to kiss a lot of frogs to find your prince/princess, but I don’t think this is what anyone had in mind.

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Probably Baptists – y’know, the ones who have a prohibition against sex standing up because it might lead to dancing…🙄
A fate worse than death! Could this story be a prequel to Footloose? 🤔 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqGslEZ5I6c
“It is an annual custom to hold a “social” on Boxing Night.”
I initially read that as “Boring Night,” which turned out to be the more accurate term.
🤣 It’s all the minister’s fault for false advertising! He wouldn’t have had an issue had he called the event what it was: A Boring Day Social. Can’t wait to read about the subsequent lawsuit in next week’s paper.