“Time” — the indefinite continued progress of existence and events in the past, present, and future regarded as a whole. “Warp” — buckle, twist, bend, distort. So…time warp is a distortion of the progress of existence? Sounds good!
Representative of that definition is the “Time Warp” song and dance from “The Rocky Horror Show”.
Let’s do the time-warp again
Let’s do the time-warp again
It’s just a jump to the left
And then a step to the right
With your hands on your hips
You bring your knees in tight
Let’s do the time-warp again
Let’s do the time-warp again
As I gets older and time warps, I find, in attempting to do The Time Warp, that I have become dyslexic (or maybe that’s dysmorphic…or certainly dys-directional, disorganized, and disoriented) both between left and right AND between up and down. (Sigh….) But we had a great time! (And there will be a story at some point in the near future about the first time I ever went to The Rocky Horror Picture Show many years ago…to be included in an embarrassing moments segment of the Motorcycles, Monkeys, Mischief, and My Life category.)