Well, hardly ever.
That was my first thought (see post #75), but I’m open to ambiguity, and you’ve gotta love a vestment called “hokey pokey.”
My use of the phrase “infernal nonsense” was definitely a Gilbert and Sullivan pinafore reference.
That’s odd. 
I could have sworn the hokey pokey was something done in private late at night. At least, from my limited experience. 
I think my grandfather used that kind of expression.
I’m familiar with it from an X-Files episode–it was a creepy song that got played over and over again in some kind of haunted house. The expression by itself is funny to me, but to use it to name a piece of clothing is over the top.
Harrumph! :mad:
GET OFF MY LAWN!
Interestingly enough, if rather off-topic for this thread. . .
I attended an informal worship service with impromptu altar last night. And I thought about your post, because sure enough, there were two candles on the altar and a cross and maybe something else(well, a firestarter, but I don’t think that counts). Now, this was not a Wiccan altar–this was a Christian altar (United Methodist variety). Still, I know why there were candles, and two is the number I would expect, but if there is any symbolism to there being exactly two, I don’t know it.
Exactly. And, since the OP was hoping for a big deep meaning or association, not entirely off-topic (although close). Sometimes, a thing just is out of tradition. Who was it that wrote about the recipe for a baked ham beginning with “cut off the shank”? She had always done it that way, her mother had always done it that way, her grandmother had always done it that way…because her great-grandmother had a small wood stove, and a whole ham wouldn’t fit! She had to cut the shank off to bake the ham, and her daughters and their daughters just kept on doing it because that’s how they were taught!
Sometimes there’s a good reason for a thing (like why nun’s habits were designed as they were), and sometimes it’s just because we’re creatures of (heh) habit.