TSRtS: question for old-timers like me :-)

[TangerineMan <tangerineman@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

All this talk about TSRtS has taken me back to those lazy, hazy daze  
in early 1980s, when my buddies and I would go to midnight screenings  
of the movie. I must have seen it 7 or 8 times, until every shot,  
scene and sequence was burned into my mind.

So, anyway, here's my crazy question. There was a lot of audience  
participation at these screenings. (Once a couple of lovely young  
girls climbed up onto the stage in front of the screen and danced  
during most of the WLL medley, clutching and grabbing at themselves  
as well as the 30-foot-high images of Jimmy and Robert on the screen.  
But I digress...) One of the things we would do was this: as soon as  
that shot of the white dove flying in slo-mo appeared, half the  
people in the theater would shout out "Shoot the bird!"

I've always wondered whether this was a local thing, or whether it  
had spread across midnight-movie theaters all over North America  
(kind of like the ritualistic audience participation stuff that  
sprang up with "Rocky Horror"...).

Anyone?