Good ones, Rapparee !
[[1. Look down the barrel to see if it's loaded.
2. Pull the blade through your hand to see if it's sharp.
3. Assume she's over 18.
4. Assume that because she's over 18 her daddy won't use that shotgun.
5. Tune someone else's guitar, banjo, or whatever without being asked.]]


A. Say to a bluegrass banjo player, "This is in the key of E flat."

B. Hold your breath while the banjo players tune.

C. Request "Danny Boy" or "When Irish Eyes Are Smiling" in an Irish pub.

D. Throw in an augmented 9th in a bluegrass jam.

E. Leave a bottle of homemade beer or wine on the back porch on a sunny summer day.

F. Run your thumb down the surface of an iron to see if it's on. (I did that - ONCE - when I was seven.)