Remind me not to discuss my "fanny pack" when I'm anywhere but in the U.S. of A.

This is such an interesting discussion -- I suppose the conclusion it's leading me to is that the term "to gig" has been in the language for a very long time, probably having to do with "a job, an occupation" and maybe having come from the word for the female anatomy, then having to do with prostitution, then meaning a job, then jazz musicians took it up to describe their paying jobs, then blues musicians took it, whereby it was transmitted to rock musicians and then, ka-BOOM, in the '60s and '70s, as with so much in popular culture at the time, it became part of the language of the streets, then part of everyday speech. And now, we have lawyers, doctors, journalists-for-sure and, I'd imagine, the occasional Indian chief referring to their work as a gig.

Ain't language a kick?

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