I don't know why this just popped into my head (and when you read the rest you'll think "Suuuuuure you don't know why this 'popped' into your head" but I really don't). But maybe someone can help me with this.
I remember in my previous life, with my first wife, going to Pleasure Island and visiting 8Trax during one of their 80s nights. This was probably 1998. Now, I figure it's safe to assume they had some "ringers" there, people who were paid to dance, add "authentic" atmosphere. For example, two guys were there wearing identical outfits - jeans, flannel shirts around their waist, black t-shirts - one was black and one was white but at some point they started doing a choreographed routine together, side by side, a little pop-n-lock, like it's the sort of thing they do all the time for the heck of it. Cheesy but not particularly offensive, you know?
Well, there was one woman there who I assumed was a CM in character...but always wondered if maybe she was just crazy.
She was beautiful, and reeeeeeeeeally curvy, in a borderline Jessica Rabbit kind of way. She was wearing the sort of short dress that would have given Walt conniptions had Annette been wearing it. Long long blond hair, probably a wig, done up in a sort of 80s way that wasn't TOTALLY 80s, not frizzy and high but with various "wild" streaks. The short dress was a sort of white that really stood out in the flourescent (sp?) lighting, so she really "popped" in the dark. Which, if she were an employee like I'm assuming, would have been the point.
But what I really remember about her (aside from not trying to gawk in front of my wife of course and to make sure I talked about how ridiculous her outfit was if my wife DID notice me noticing her back me up fellas), was that the only time she danced...and she danced like a lunatic...was when the DJ played the Don Henley song "All She Wants To Do Is Dance."
Now, if you know the song, the lyrics, you know it's not a particularly flattering song about the woman in question, it's an ode to insipidness. So when she got up to dance, I said to my wife "Pleeeeease tell me she works here. Please tell me she's paid to be that stupid."
So. For all you insiders' insiders, who know the Social Security #s and first pet names of every CM who ever worked at Pleasure Island, can anyone confirm that at the very least, this sort of woman was the kind of person WDW would hire for ambiance at 8Trax? I don't need to know who the person is, her likes or dislikes, anything personal. Just that there's a possibility, as I wrote, that she was getting paid to be that dumb.
I remember in my previous life, with my first wife, going to Pleasure Island and visiting 8Trax during one of their 80s nights. This was probably 1998. Now, I figure it's safe to assume they had some "ringers" there, people who were paid to dance, add "authentic" atmosphere. For example, two guys were there wearing identical outfits - jeans, flannel shirts around their waist, black t-shirts - one was black and one was white but at some point they started doing a choreographed routine together, side by side, a little pop-n-lock, like it's the sort of thing they do all the time for the heck of it. Cheesy but not particularly offensive, you know?
Well, there was one woman there who I assumed was a CM in character...but always wondered if maybe she was just crazy.
She was beautiful, and reeeeeeeeeally curvy, in a borderline Jessica Rabbit kind of way. She was wearing the sort of short dress that would have given Walt conniptions had Annette been wearing it. Long long blond hair, probably a wig, done up in a sort of 80s way that wasn't TOTALLY 80s, not frizzy and high but with various "wild" streaks. The short dress was a sort of white that really stood out in the flourescent (sp?) lighting, so she really "popped" in the dark. Which, if she were an employee like I'm assuming, would have been the point.
But what I really remember about her (aside from not trying to gawk in front of my wife of course and to make sure I talked about how ridiculous her outfit was if my wife DID notice me noticing her back me up fellas), was that the only time she danced...and she danced like a lunatic...was when the DJ played the Don Henley song "All She Wants To Do Is Dance."
Now, if you know the song, the lyrics, you know it's not a particularly flattering song about the woman in question, it's an ode to insipidness. So when she got up to dance, I said to my wife "Pleeeeease tell me she works here. Please tell me she's paid to be that stupid."
So. For all you insiders' insiders, who know the Social Security #s and first pet names of every CM who ever worked at Pleasure Island, can anyone confirm that at the very least, this sort of woman was the kind of person WDW would hire for ambiance at 8Trax? I don't need to know who the person is, her likes or dislikes, anything personal. Just that there's a possibility, as I wrote, that she was getting paid to be that dumb.
