Hi, Ellen!

We met at the hoot at Bob's (Deckman's)—Walt's last—but we didn't get much of a chance to talk. I met Liss for the first time there also. She and I talked on the phone a couple of times. Apart from my Significant Other in 1952 (lovely girl named Claire) showing me G, C, and D7 on her guitar and helping me struggle with them, Walt was my first real guitar teacher. I learned a lot of guitar from him and probably half the songs I know.

Welcome aboard. As you well know by now, this place is nutty, but nice.

How's this for pedantic? One theory (rarely put forth, but as good as any) regarding the origin of the expression about watching one's p's and q's comes from the formal study of symbolic logic. P is the major premise, Q is the minor premise ("P implies Q. P, therefore, Q"). In a complex problem in logic, if you get the two confused, which is sometimes easy to do, your philosophy prof will cover your test bluebook with so many red pencil marks, it'll look like it's bleeding.

Only one of many theories, however.

Don Firth