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Police in Boston Search for Banjo Player
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Subject: Police in Boston Search for Banjo Player From: Lonesome EJ Date: 11 Jun 07 - 05:24 PM Hopefully he can be stopped before permanent damage is done. Story here. |
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Subject: RE: Police in Boston Search for Banjo Player From: John MacKenzie Date: 11 Jun 07 - 05:27 PM Great story. The Boston Twangler rides again !! G. |
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Subject: RE: Police in Boston Search for Banjo Player From: PoppaGator Date: 11 Jun 07 - 05:34 PM Please note that this "news" story appears in The Onion. Folks outside the US, and probably even a few naive souls here in the States, may not realize that The Onion is an all-satire (i.e., all-fake-news) publication. Not that there's anything wrong with that! But do be advised that the accompanying "news photo" undoubtedly does not depict an actual event as described in the caption, and that the story is, as always, a complete fabrication. |
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Subject: RE: Police in Boston Search for Banjo Player From: SINSULL Date: 11 Jun 07 - 05:35 PM I'll make him a palate on my floor anytime. |
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Subject: RE: Police in Boston Search for Banjo Player From: Desert Dancer Date: 11 Jun 07 - 05:48 PM pal·let1 /ˈpælɪt/ Pronunciation[pal-it] –noun 1. a bed or mattress of straw. 2. a small or makeshift bed. I assume. ""These constant hootenannings must stop," said Mayor Thomas Menino...." There's a verb I'd like to see more often! ~ Becky in Tucson |
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Subject: RE: Police in Boston Search for Banjo Player From: Lonesome EJ Date: 11 Jun 07 - 05:49 PM You'd better watch out, Pop. I hear outbreaks of hootenanism have been reported in New Orleans within the last few hours! |
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Subject: RE: Police in Boston Search for Banjo Player From: bubblyrat Date: 11 Jun 07 - 05:51 PM No, I LIKE the idea of someone sleeping on the floor on a palate---it sounds like fun !!! |
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Subject: RE: Police in Boston Search for Banjo Player From: katlaughing Date: 11 Jun 07 - 05:56 PM As long as it isn't too delicate of a palate.:-) Landsakes, Leej! Quite a story! Just don't let him on the MTA! |
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Subject: RE: Police in Boston Search for Banjo Player From: Lonesome EJ Date: 11 Jun 07 - 06:01 PM Goodness gracious, no, Kat! The passengers on the MTA would be in for a real brouhaha, and I'm not just a-whistlin Dixie. |
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Subject: RE: Police in Boston Search for Banjo Player From: John MacKenzie Date: 11 Jun 07 - 06:01 PM Or a palette if he's feeling a bit off colour! G |
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Subject: RE: Police in Boston Search for Banjo Player From: Big Al Whittle Date: 11 Jun 07 - 06:07 PM sounds like a good man. |
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Subject: RE: Police in Boston Search for Banjo Player From: PoppaGator Date: 11 Jun 07 - 06:29 PM Thanks to Desert Dancer for the defintion of "pallet," but more to the point: pal·ate: –noun 1. Anatomy. the roof of the mouth, consisting of an anterior bony portion (hard palate) and a posterior muscular portion (soft palate) that separate the oral cavity from the nasal cavity. 2. the sense of taste: a dinner to delight the palate. 3. intellectual or aesthetic taste; mental appreciation. I'll keep my palate well off the floor, thank you. As far as a pallet on your floor is concerned, that's OK, but don't you let your husband catch me here! |
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Subject: RE: Police in Boston Search for Banjo Player From: PoppaGator Date: 11 Jun 07 - 06:38 PM "Palette," as in a painter's selection of colors, if yet another homonym. |
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Subject: RE: Police in Boston Search for Banjo Player From: lefthanded guitar Date: 11 Jun 07 - 06:44 PM I hear this happened in Boston and the banjo player is MIA in mass transit now. Did he ever return? ;-) |
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Subject: RE: Police in Boston Search for Banjo Player From: SINSULL Date: 11 Jun 07 - 10:33 PM Freudian Slip. heh heh |
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Subject: RE: Police in Boston Search for Banjo Player From: Sandra in Sydney Date: 11 Jun 07 - 10:37 PM Giok, I was taking a mouthful of water when I read 'The Boston Twangler rides again !!' It's probably a good idea I was drinking from my water bottle, & not a cup, or I might now be drying out my keyboard. sandra |
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Subject: RE: Police in Boston Search for Banjo Player From: katlaughing Date: 11 Jun 07 - 10:40 PM Oooo, Sins, how naughty!**bg** Wonder if he rings chimes, too? |
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Subject: RE: Police in Boston Search for Banjo Player From: Lonesome EJ Date: 12 Jun 07 - 12:00 AM No, he never returned, and no one knows his fate. |
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Subject: RE: Police in Boston Search for Banjo Player From: GUEST,Geoff the Duck Date: 12 Jun 07 - 04:40 AM Excellent article, Lonesome. It must be about 8 years since I last read anything from The Onion. I'd completely forgotten it existed. I almost howled laughing. And as for you Sins... ...well, we all an guess how you got the name! Quack! Geoff. |
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Subject: RE: Police in Boston Search for Banjo Player From: Bat Goddess Date: 12 Jun 07 - 07:36 AM I'm one of the lucky ones who has been reading The Onion since the dead tree edition -- I'm from Wisconsin originally so when my sister still lived in Milwaukee, she'd send me care packages full of The Onion. One of my favorite articles from the '90s was about Newt Gingrich giving up showers because he couldn't bear to see a man naked. Linn |
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Subject: RE: Police in Boston Search for Banjo Player From: nickp Date: 12 Jun 07 - 08:59 AM "spontaneous acts of bluegrass" - speaking as an oldtime music fan that makes me shudder with the thought! Excellent spoof Nick |
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Subject: RE: Police in Boston Search for Banjo Player From: Scoville Date: 12 Jun 07 - 09:17 AM Q) What do you say to a banjo picker in a three-piece suit? A) "Will the defendant please rise." No, I did not make that up. |
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Subject: RE: Police in Boston Search for Banjo Player From: SINSULL Date: 12 Jun 07 - 10:09 AM Well I hope the Boston police have better luck than I have. I've been searching for a banjo player for years. I might even put up with the vest. |
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Subject: RE: Police in Boston Search for Banjo Player From: Rusty Dobro Date: 12 Jun 07 - 11:35 AM This appears on the very day that I got my first-ever banjo! Do I really have to terrorise entire communities? I thought I could do it one pub at a time! |
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Subject: RE: Police in Boston Search for Banjo Player From: GUEST,leeneia Date: 12 Jun 07 - 11:50 AM That is NOT a satire. I repeat, that is NOT a satire. I've always wondered what will happen when asset managers finally get to hear good music played in tune with joy in the musician's heart. Now we know. They go wild. It's not in the article, but an administrative assistant with tears in her eyes breathed, "I will never have to listen to Rod Stewart again." There is one flaw in the article, i.e. "dozens of pairs of spoons bent while being repurposed as percussive aids" Whoever heard of anybody bending spoons to play them? You don't bend them, though you might have to straighten them. In fact, I have sign for my act which says "No spoons were harmed to make this music." |
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Subject: RE: Police in Boston Search for Banjo Player From: Stilly River Sage Date: 12 Jun 07 - 12:35 PM Sometimes its nice if clarifications *aren't* offered. The results are more interesting. SRS |
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Subject: RE: Police in Boston Search for Banjo Player From: Desert Dancer Date: 12 Jun 07 - 04:15 PM Coincidentally: Pallet on the Floor... But is it tasteful? ~ B in T |
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Subject: RE: Police in Boston Search for Banjo Player From: Jim Lad Date: 12 Jun 07 - 05:57 PM Shouldn't be too hard to find. Just how many souls with no front teeth, a three legged dog and a banjo can there be riding around endlessly on the MTA? |
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Subject: RE: Police in Boston Search for Banjo Player From: GUEST Date: 12 Jun 07 - 06:11 PM Whatever do you mean by no front teeth, Jim Lad? The banjo player at the stock exchange is positively dapper. (I told everybody you could spell, and I was right. Who was it pretending to be you while typing - I think - in broad Scots?)
Thanks. -Joe Offer- |
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Subject: RE: Police in Boston Search for Banjo Player From: Jim Lad Date: 12 Jun 07 - 07:42 PM "Who was it pretending to be you while typing - I think - in broad Scots?" Meself? ..and "No". My spelling is absolutely dreadful so I insist on using "Spell Check" every time. Thanks though. Jim |
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Subject: RE: Police in Boston Search for Banjo Player From: Charley Noble Date: 12 Jun 07 - 09:04 PM "spontaneous acts of bluegrass" Really! The feller is playing a 4-string banjo. Bluegrass is 5-string banjo. Sometimes I am a-palwed at how credulous Mudcatters, even the most erudite ones, can be. For shame! This thread should be relegated to the depths of the BS section. Charley Noble |
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Subject: RE: Police in Boston Search for Banjo Player From: Lonesome EJ Date: 13 Jun 07 - 01:26 AM I'm also a palwed, Charlie, to tell the truth. |
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Subject: RE: Police in Boston Search for Banjo Player From: Geoff the Duck Date: 13 Jun 07 - 03:21 AM I nearly got pawled yesterday, but I managed to hide under a palette someone had on their floor. Quack! GtD. |
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Subject: RE: Police in Boston Search for Banjo Player From: Trevor Date: 13 Jun 07 - 06:21 AM Are they all like that in Lincolnshire? |
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Subject: RE: Police in Boston Search for Banjo Player From: Charley Noble Date: 13 Jun 07 - 08:31 AM Heave "a-pawl" an' be done with it! But it's still a 4-string banjo and there are many, hell, legions, who would take affront at the suggestion that a 4-string banjo were a bluegrass instrument. Cheerily, Charley Noble |
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Subject: RE: Police in Boston Search for Banjo Player From: Bainbo Date: 17 Jun 07 - 12:53 PM Just re-reading Three Men In A Boat (1889) by Jerome K Jerome, and found this passage: "George got out his banjo after supper, and wanted to play it, but Harris objected: he said he had got a headache, and did not feel strong enough to stand it. George thought the music might do him good - said music often soothed the nerves and took away a headache; and he twanged two or three notes, just to show Harris what it was like. Harris said he would rather have the headache." It goes on. There's more in this vein - and Jerome also has a go at bagpipes and concertinas. I don't endorse the views, just thought it was interesting that banjo jokes are nothing new. In fact, this one goes back nearly 120 years. |
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