What was the Mexican Hat Dance?

See this thread.

And the very nice "Summary of MHD posts"

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/Forum5/HTML/002005.html

2000-10-04 Bonus Q-Miles (It all started here.)
2000-10-05 Going to Mexico to get Cheap Mid-week Fares (The Buzz!)
2000-10-07 Heads up on Mexico! +Interesting competition article
2000-10-20 Mexicana christens "Mexican Hat Dance" manoeuvre
2000-10-20 Mexican Hat Dance with Blue Man Group (FlyerTalk Trip Reports)
2000-10-21 Hat Dance" trip report
2000-11-18 Mileage Run Time
2000-11-21 New fares for YYZ-YOW/YUL same day return
2000-11-21 MHD from YOW?
2000-11-29 Mexican Hat Dance Club
2000-12-01 The Mexican Hat Dance (Mileage Run)
2000-12-11 OFF TO MEX TODAY!
2000-12-11 Mexican Hat Dance - Part 2
2000-12-12 Air Canada Launches Daily Non-Stop Ottawa-San Jose Service
2000-12-14 Any comments on this?
2000-12-15 PTO and MHD
2000-12-15 MHD/Ultra - Expedited service...
2000-12-19 The gods frown on MEX Hat Dance
2000-12-19 The gods smile on GDL Hat Dance
2000-12-19 MHD spoken of on ROBtv's "The Bottom Line"
2000-12-20 Mexican Hat Dance - We're Famous!
2000-12-22 'Mexican Hat Dance' brings cheap flights, more points (In The News)
2000-12-23 Go through Canada and save on C (United)
2000-12-28 Need info on GDL airport in Mexico (General TravelTalk)
2001-01-06 YYC-LAX-MEX (FlyerTalk Trip Reports)
2001-01-08 AC reduces domestic fares!
2001-01-14 The 3rd Millenium's first MHD
2001-01-18 AC Launches A319 serivce YYC to SJC
2001-01-21 Mexican Hat Dance -- With a Little Touchy Feely (FlyerTalk Trip Reports)
2001-01-23 Booking with travel agents
2001-01-25 Hat Dancing 101
2001-01-30 June/July MHD suggestions??
2001-02-01 MHD goes corporate, saves day
2001-02-06 E Ticketing For The MHD'ers
2001-02-08 More Variants of the MHD to Come?
2001-02-12 What's the best MHD itinerary?
2001-02-18 Short Haul USA MHD?
2001-02-18 que pasa with the MHD
2001-02-23 change fees
2001-03-02 MHD Tomorrow!!!!! Help!
2001-03-04 MHD and Amex Travel
2001-03-04 Sleeper Seats on MHD Routes?
2001-03-08 MHD in semi-real time...
2001-01-28 Fares - Identifying on Computer, outside of ITN.
2001-03-26 MHD's ex-YVR
2001-03-27 Acheiving Status Thru MHD's Only
2001-03-27 Fisch's MHD Trip Report
2001-03-28 New Codeshare Routes With Mexicana
2001-03-28 planning an MHD and seeking advice from the experts
2001-04-09 Dancing Lessons
2001-04-09 Spousal MHD
2001-04-12 New *A schedule available for Palm users
2001-04-13 Bonus Q miles May 10 - July 10 (Again.)
2001-04-14 An MHD is born
2001-04-14 The MHD that almost wasn't
2001-04-16 MHD? Help out a novice...
2001-04-16 MHD Hotel Suggestions
2001-04-18 MHD YVR to YUL
2001-04-20 MHD (Extended) Aktau (SCO) - CUN and back
2001-04-21 Connecting in CUN...help!
2001-04-22 My May MHD.... anyone want to meet up for parts of it?
2001-04-25 MHD - forwarded to Fare Office?
2001-04-25 PTO 'no seats' vs. ITN availability
2001-04-26 MHD - Can one fly exclusively on AC or AC codeshared designated flights
2001-04-27 July 4/5 MHD out of YYZ? Anyone interested?
2000-04-29 Not really an MHD
2000-04-29 MHD: Elite system wide upgrades
2000-04-30 MHD bookings and travel agents
2000-05-01 New MX route for MHDs coming...
2000-05-05 Confirmation regarding upgrades for *G on MX
2001-05-06 Max Q Miles from MHD.
2001-05-08 Plain Jane MHD
2001-05-10 MHD On Long Weekend in May
2001-05-10 C Class instead of J -- Wrong Fare Code in PTO
2001-05-10 I grow up and become Elite"
2001-05-10 Canada AM and MHD
2001-05-12 MHD question for the experts
2001-05-13 Sidebar warning on MHD trips into CUN
2001-05-13 MHD - Mexicana - new routes to Cuba
2001-05-14 June MHD PTO problems--seek help

Thanks Ken!

-Mark

WOW, this is doc as the FlyerTalk historian at his best. I'm very impressed with the very detailed answer - sure to help anyone interested in this unique promotion.

Again, WOW!

Kudos to Doc for (as always) knowing exactly where to look for it, and MEGA Kudos to Ken hAAmer for the EIGHTY or so hotlinks laid out in doc's referenced thread. I never knew UBB would support that many links? 8 (?) smilies per post is max, but 80 hotlinks work fine! Must have taken Ken literally half the day to collate that lot. Must surely be an all-time record for a single FT post? A terrific read - I am starting on it all over again. A great and truly memorable FT'er loophole.

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[This message has been edited by ozstamps (edited 09-24-2002).]

Thanks to doc for his copy and paste skills.

Thanks to Ken Hamer for doing all the real work in compiling the index.
BTW, the MHD is dead. Gone. Kaput.

FewMiles..

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You're most welcome!

Thanks for the typically gracious and highly informative post!

Hadn't Albert asked, "What was the Mexican Hat Dance?" Did anyone perhaps think that he'd actually meant "is," had thought that it was still ongoing, and truly had planned to "dance"?

Kindly also please note, in case anyone missed it above

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And thanks to Eugene as well, for answering so promptly!

Have a great day everyone!

-Mark

doc: Why not just let people click on your link to Ken's thread where they can see the whole list, complete with clickable links? That would have worked just fine. And if you want to add some comments, as ozstamps has, sure why not? But wholesale copy/paste of content that is only a link away (and a link that you yourself provided), what purpose does that have?

Funny, doc, when you quoted your own earlier post, you left out the 80 lines or so of copy-and-paste. Are you always as selective about being accurate in quoting things? If you want to point out that you did indeed write "Thanks Ken!", all you have to do is say it, as you must think I am blind. No need to quote your "whole" post from before, as I am surely apt to miss it the second time around too.

Thanks, you too!

FewMiles..

To play the devil's advocate here a bit I guess, I can honestly say I never saw Ken hAAmer's link in the thread that Eugene referenced above. And bear in mind that link goes (curiously) to a thread I started - so I would normally have clicked on it at that time. Ken's link to the 80 hotlinks is WAY down a pretty intense thread, and was not as obvious as if Eugene had for instance indexed Ken's actual thread, and not mine. It was indeed the perfect answer to this thread question. Had Eugene done that, I imagine doc would not have taken the trouble with his post? Or if he had - he then WOULD have just been duplicating info.

However, doc pasting the topics as he did (and offering the hot link as well) made it clear it was a thread worth reading. (To me anyway!) And Randy seemed to think it was pretty neat as well listed like that. It was enjoyable spending time clicking on many of the links, and again I have to thank doc for pasting it here. And Ken once again for collating it so well.

I know clickable links do save bandwidth, but SEEING a long list like that for the first time catches the attention. Well it did me anyway.


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The links and threads make me sad I enjoyed the MHD and all it represented... now it is gone (sigh!).

ozstamps, a credible poster saying "this link goes to the comprehensive list of MHD threads " works quite well too, does it not? Incessant copy-and-pasting of other people's content on the other hand doesn't rate too highly to me... I don't know about you...

Sure, doc's wholesale copying of the list of topics gets you curious, but wouldn't you have clicked on the link he provided anyway? After all, you did click on the link in Eugene's post and all he put for commentary was a smiley.

FewMiles..

Nope. Sorry, and I am not trying to be contrary, but just answer you Few Miles. I think Eugene did NOT say above as you seem to state: "this link goes to the comprehensive list of MHD threads" - had he done so I'd agree with you. He simply said
"See this thread" as a sole response to a new poster asking 'what was the MHD'. For all I knew it was a single thread he referenced. I did not even look first time, as doc's post caught MY eye. And Randy's eye.

I did not imply for one second I hope that Eugene was not credible - he certainly is. I just wondered why if he knew the answer was buried somewhere deep inside a 3 page thread having nothing to do with MHD, he did not link to the actual thread that explained MHD and be done with it. No idea if Albert waded thru the reams of other extraneous stuff to find it, but I sure did not at first. Life is far too short.

Doc did, also found in archives the correct link, and also pasted it for all to see, and again, I thank him for it. Why ANYONE can be the least bit citical of that (3 times!) quite mystifies me. I bet Albert got his answer from doc's post and no other. And reading all this is possibly wondering what kind of pedantic, petty nut house he wandered into.


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ozstamps, I don't think you're being contrary. I see now that you misinterpreted what I meant. Perhaps I wasn't clear. I did not say or mean to say anything about Eugene not being credible. Rather, I was commenting that doc could have put in a plug/opinion/comment/whatever for the thread he linked rather than just copy and pasting stuff in. That's what doc could have done and it would have been no less effective in conveying that the linked thread is a goldmine of information. doc knows how to express his opinion, I'm just curious why he never does when it comes to regular discussions on FT.

FewMiles..

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Unlike others, doc is so darn imperfect!

Doc could have done this! Doc could have done that! Doc shouyld have... WOW!

If only we were all so very perfect, like you!

Shame on him!

I say "ban him!"

Ban doc!

Ban doc!

Ban doc!

Ban doc!

Whatever credibility, if you ever had any is surely lost, in my view! How very sad!

Am I alone in thinking that this kind of absurd posting behavior is slowly killing FlyerTalk?

-Mark

(was typing a reply, but decided not to waste my time any more)

FewMiles..