No, I do not mean the opossum from the Okefenokee Swamp who discovered that the enemy is us.

I mean the pogo that attracts monsters . . .

. . . but not the monsters that are attracted to Bacon.

“Well, pogoing was the first sort of punk dance, which was basically jumping up and down. Slam dancing and the mosh pit all kind of grew out of pogoing. . . Punk and ‘New Wave’ were starting off and the discotheques were still playing disco music. But every now and then they’d slip in Blondie’s Heart of Glass or Rock Lobster by The B-52’s. Well, obviously, anybody who was into that kind of music would rush on the dance floor and start jumping up and down and would bang into the guys trying to do their disco two steps. I got thrown out of a lot of clubs because of that.”

The one who was bounced for bouncing decided to write a protest song in response to his experience.

Here is an excerpt from the song’s lyrics:

“Say, we can act if we want to
If we don’t, nobody will
And you can act real rude and totally removed
And I can act like an imbecile”

With lyrics like those, the song’s author should have been in politics.

Anyway, the protest song was recorded, played on music stations and later turned into a music video that was shown on MTV.

The song’s author ended up with the last laugh, because Disco died, and his protest song made it to the #3 spot of the Billboard Hot 100 music chart, where it stayed for several weeks.