To shuffle off in a rather dignified but unceremonious way was not a blockbuster-type ending.
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He's a warrior, and sometimes even warriors must heed their mothers and shuffle off to bed before the main event.
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Chris Pratt can officially do it all, he just crossed the Electric Slide and Cupid Shuffle off his list of talents.
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Likewise, the song's claim that "40,000 men and women every day" shuffle off this mortal coil wasn't to be taken seriously.
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The audience will applaud, the applause will die away, and then everyone will shuffle off to watch Wimbledon and the Olympics.
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As you started to shuffle off your mortal coil you'd see Harv's grinning face and you'd slip into the grave cursing yourself.
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Enjoy this opportunity to enrich your mind with Gizmodo's best articles of the week before you invariably shuffle off your mortal coil.
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Already out of fuel, EO-1 itself will continue to slowly shuffle off its orbital coil until it burns up in Earth's atmosphere.
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"We walk away and shuffle off our mortal coil, but these things live on," he said of his work in a 2013 documentary.
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"Corners of the country could put their hands in their pockets, whistle and quietly shuffle off, as if the history was never theirs," he said.
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I spend the night leering into commercial waste garbage bins while people in winter coats shuffle off to nibble at small plates look at me funny.
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Scene changes are cleverly managed through the use of mobile scaffolding that serves as staircases, windows, balconies, train compartments ("Shuffle off to Buffalo"), dressing rooms and more.
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It's pure euphoria, both onstage and in front of it, one which pulses like electricity long after the crowd has started to shuffle off and head home.
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And to alter now, cleanly and sanely, I want to shuffle off this loose living randomness: people; reviews; fame; all the glittering scales; and be withdrawn, and concentrated.
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A SMOOTH bankruptcy process is akin to reincarnation: a company at death's door gets to shuffle off its old debts, often gain new owners, and start a new life.
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On the other hand, of all the ways we could shuffle off this mortal coil, death by blocked sneezing has surely got to be one of the most embarrassing.
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"Instead of providing financial help from reserves and raising new debt, the Russian state prefers to shuffle off the burden of anti-crisis measures onto business and households," BCS Brokerage said.
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Ms. Weisberger, I should add, is quite healthy and in no hurry to shuffle off, though she did worry that she might die before the FUN-eral, which would have ruined everything.
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Each time you shuffle off the mortal coil, you start again as the dead king's heir — learning to avoid the same mistakes, and aiming to achieve new objectives before you kick the bucket.
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Note the lag in the arrival of monuments; they tend to appear at about the moment that the generation directly involved with the people or events depicted are about to shuffle off the stage.
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Women who age under the scrutiny of the public eye are faced with two options: grow old "gracefully" (as in, age like Jennifer Lopez or Cindy Crawford, who've actually barely aged at all) or shuffle off into obscurity.
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The 1950s, for instance, did not really shuffle off until 19703 (when according to Philip Larkin, a British poet, "sexual intercourse began".) But there is one tidy bit of date-keeping, and that is the end of the 1960s.
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As lights at the front of the stage dimmed, a solo performer whose piece had concluded could quietly shuffle off, as the wisp of the following piece sounded from another corner — and as Mr. Houfek's lighting design played with ombre tints and arrangements of polygons on a large screen at the rear of the hall.
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Shuffle Off to Buffalo is also a tap dance step using the shuffle technique.Shuffle Off to Buffalo. BufWiki - The Peoples Guide to the Community of Buffalo, NY. Accessed 2013-02-23.
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Wynn was caricatured in the Merrie Melodies cartoon shorts Shuffle Off to Buffalo (1933) and I've Got to Sing a Torch Song (1933), and as a pot of jam in the Betty Boop short Betty in Blunderland (1934).
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An instance included Cena executing the Five Knuckle Shuffle off the top turnbuckle. Then Batista delivered a Batista Bomb for a two-count and Cena delivered an Attitude Adjustment for a two-count. The match came to an end after Cena reversed a Batista Bomb into an STF. Batista eventually submitted.
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"Mortal coil" is a poetic term for the troubles of daily life and the strife and suffering of the world. It is used in the sense of a burden to be carried or abandoned. To "shuffle off this mortal coil" is to die, exemplified in the "To be, or not to be" soliloquy in Shakespeare's Hamlet.
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Bugs disguises himself as a lamp, then, after the monster 'turns on' the bulbs in Bugs' ears, the rabbit dances away to the tune of Shuffle Off To Buffalo. From one end of a hallway, Bugs taunts the monster by calling him "Frankenstein!". The two keep running until a trapdoor on the floor opens, forcing Bugs to halt. While Bugs is tiptoeing backwards and praying, he bumps into the creature.
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The Stolen Sweets are an American Jazz group from Portland, Oregon. Formed in 2005, the group comprises vocalists Jen Bernard, Lara Michell and Erin Sutherland, Pete Krebs and David Langenes on guitar, and Keith Brush on double bass. They have released two albums so far: Shuffle Off to Buffalo (2006) and Sleepytime in Chinatown (2009). The band have stated that they formed with the intention of emulating 1920s–1930s vocal jazz group The Boswell Sisters.
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Then Dorothy shows up and wishes her luck, telling her that she and Pat are getting married. The show goes on, and the last twenty minutes of the film are devoted to three Busby Berkeley production numbers: "Shuffle Off to Buffalo", "(I'm) Young and Healthy", and "42nd Street". The show is a hit. As the theater audience comes out, Julian stands in the shadows, hearing the comments that Peggy is a star and he (Marsh) does not deserve the credit for it.
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Alice clearly has considerable power over Chattox, but the latter manages to shuffle off behind a tomb before she is forced to reveal her secret. After returning to the abbey Dorothy reveals to her brother, who has guessed that Alizon is not Elizabeth Device's daughter, her surmise that Alizon is in reality Alice Nutter's daughter. Nicholas Assheton then joins them, telling them that Potts has just told him that he suspects Alice of being a witch after overhearing a conversation she had had with Elizabeth Device.
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They became well-known nationally, and secured a contract with Brunswick Records. Most of the vocals on their recordings were by Skinnay Ennis, whose vocal style and the arrangements by Trotter, which featured staccato triplets by the trumpeters and clarinets played through megaphones, gave Kemp's records a distinctive sound. Kemp and his orchestra had a number of hit records, including "Shuffle Off to Buffalo" (1933), "In the Middle of a Kiss" (1935), "There's a Small Hotel" (1936), "When I'm With You" (1936), "This Year's Kisses" (1937), and "Where or When" (1937).
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The Ninth Doctor, Rose, and Jack are cornered in a London hospital during the Blitz by patients wearing gas masks fused to their faces asking for their "mummy". The Doctor pretends to be the “mummy” and orders them to go back to their room, and the patients shuffle off. Jamie, the index case of the "epidemic", also responds to this, leaving his sister Nancy alone. The Doctor, Rose, and Jack investigate the hospital room Jamie was treated at, and learn from recordings that the child is growing stronger with its powers and may become unstoppable.
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"Shuffle Off to Buffalo" is a song written by Al Dubin and Harry Warren and introduced in the 1933 musical film 42nd Street when it was sung and danced by Ruby Keeler and Clarence Nordstrom. It was also sung in the film by Ginger Rogers, Una Merkel, and Chorus. Popular recordings in 1933 were by Don Bestor (vocal by Maurice Cross) and by Hal Kemp (vocal by Skinnay Ennis). The song was also popular on the radio in that year and was later performed and recorded by the Boswell Sisters, the Three X Sisters and The Andrews Sisters.
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Dumbfounded, he tries to coax her with the words "Come on along and listen to the lullaby of Broadway..." After the cast joins him in the serenade, she decides to accept his offer ("Lullaby of Broadway"). Forced to learn the part in two days, Peggy is on the verge of a nervous breakdown when she has an unexpected visit from Dorothy, who has been watching the rehearsals and realizes that beneath her nervous exterior, Peggy is good, "maybe even better than I would have been." She even offers a little friendly advice on how to perform the last song, "About a Quarter to Nine." It's time for the curtain to rise again ("Shuffle Off to Buffalo").
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An example of a 1960 song and album featuring music for the Madison is The Tunetoppers at The Madison Dance Party, with calls by Al Brown."The Madison" at ColumbusMusicHistory.com The Madison basic, danced in the film Hairspray, is as follows: #Step left forward #Place right beside left (no weight) and clap #Step back on right #Move left foot back and across the right #Move left foot to the left #Move left foot back and across the right Called steps included the Double Cross, the Cleveland Box, The Basketball (with Wilt Chamberlain), the Big "M", the "T" Time, the Jackie Gleason, the Birdland, and The Rifleman. "The Jackie Gleason" is based on a tap dance movement known as "Shuffle Off to Buffalo".
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However, the reputation of the album has since been marred by accusations that Hutchings plagiarized one of its best songs, "Wolfe," from "Northwest Passage" by Canadian folksinger Stan Rogers.Garnet Rogers, Night Drive: Travels with My Brother (Brampton, ON: Tickle Shore Publishing, 2016), pp 400-401 Shuffle Off (1983) followed, after which Nicol and Mattacks left to reform Fairport Convention. Phil Beer on guitar/fiddle/vocals and Trevor Foster on drums joined the band, and Under the Rose (1984), A Christmas Present From The Albion Band (1985) and The Wild Side of Town (1987) followed, the last of which was based on a five-part BBC television series presented by Chris Baines. The line-up then shifted with Martin Bell joining on violin before the release of Stella Maris in (1987).
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When the Dover Boys finally arrive, they lay a few punches on the by-now barely conscious Backslide before managing to knock each other out in unison as Backslide collapses to the floor safely beneath their swinging fists. Dora is then escorted away by an odd grey-bearded man in a nineteenth-century bathing suit and sailor's cap who was a running gag throughout the cartoon, appearing periodically to interrupt the story by shuffling across the screen to the tune of Ed Haley's "While Strolling Through the Park One Day". He and Dora proceed to shuffle off into the sunset as the cartoon concludes with the familiar iris-out. From time to time throughout the cartoon, the Boys lapse into various renditions of their alma mater, sung to the tune of George Cooper and Henry Tucker's "Sweet Genevieve": "Pimento U, Oh sweet P.U., thy fragrant odor scents the air" etc.
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