Accused Banjo Beater Allowed To Tour

Subject: RE: Accused Banjo Beater Allowed To Tour
From: GUEST,Ewan McVicar
Date: 07 Jan 10 - 04:32 AM

It occurs to me that some of the anti-banjo comments above arise from 'banjo envy'. Back in the 1960s a young man I knew who loved widely but not wisely was referred to in a staff magazine as 'dragging his banjo round town'.
Ewan

Subject: RE: Accused Banjo Beater Allowed To Tour
From: Artful Codger
Date: 07 Jan 10 - 05:29 AM

Are you insinuating those with banjo envy lack pluck?

Subject: RE: Accused Banjo Beater Allowed To Tour
From: Young Buchan
Date: 07 Jan 10 - 06:39 AM

Cluedo 2010

Mr Stancato
At the bus stop
With a banjo


I win

Subject: RE: Accused Banjo Beater Allowed To Tour
From: catspaw49
Date: 07 Jan 10 - 07:48 AM

Hey Will......I have less fear of injury being banjaxed than I do being "Framused." Smacked with one of them old suckers might even kill you. As I recall, the extreme danger inherent to the Framus forced it to be used only as a guitar when it was banned as a Field Hockey stick. That was such a terrible thing......they made great field hockey sticks......................


Spaw

Subject: RE: Accused Banjo Beater Allowed To Tour
From: GUEST
Date: 07 Jan 10 - 08:33 AM

If I were to find fault with every bit of bad grammar and spelling on this forum, I'd have little time for anything else.

Subject: RE: Accused Banjo Beater Allowed To Tour
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 07 Jan 10 - 08:33 AM

My mther always said, "Don't pick it, it'll never get better"
Don't they say, mothers are always right?

Subject: RE: Accused Banjo Beater Allowed To Tour
From: Will Fly
Date: 07 Jan 10 - 10:35 AM

Jaysus, Spaw - I haven't heard the word "Framus" in nearly 40 years. There could be worse things than being hit over the head with a big Swedish box - but if there are I haven't heard of them...

Subject: RE: Accused Banjo Beater Allowed To Tour
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 07 Jan 10 - 10:45 AM

Banjos don't assault people, people do, that's priceless, maybe we could wheel out Charlton Heston to defend us banjo players like the NRA do.

Dave H

Subject: RE: Accused Banjo Beater Allowed To Tour
From: GUEST,Songbob
Date: 07 Jan 10 - 11:54 AM

"did the guitar player tune thusly: BAGDAD? "

No, the tuning is DADGAB (Arabic reads right-to-left).

And Framus instruments are Bavarian (German), not Scandahoovian.

And it has always occurred to me that an open-back banjo would be easier to use in an assault than a resonated one, since the strut (if it has one) makes a mighty fine handle. You could use the peghead as if using a bayonet, aiming for the eyes, and then, wham! up comes the shell, right in the teeth! As my basic-training US Army drill sergeant might have said, "Vertical shell-stroke -- Hoh!" (As you can also probably guess, there is a bit of repressed agitation, or even rage, in my banjo-playing past).


Bob

Subject: RE: Accused Banjo Beater Allowed To Tour
From: GUEST,999
Date: 07 Jan 10 - 01:08 PM

I think banjo playing is a mild social deviation and that the players of banjos should come home carrying them or on them.

Subject: RE: Accused Banjo Beater Allowed To Tour
From: Cool Beans
Date: 07 Jan 10 - 01:08 PM

So the guy who killed his wife with banjos would be both a wife beater and a banjo beater?

Subject: RE: Accused Banjo Beater Allowed To Tour
From: katlaughing
Date: 07 Jan 10 - 01:29 PM

She might've survived if he'd only been a pole-axer. I've heard poles are not considered deadly weapons.

Subject: RE: Accused Banjo Beater Allowed To Tour
From: GUEST,999
Date: 07 Jan 10 - 01:44 PM

I'm still tryin' to figure out why "Dueling Banjos" in the movie 'Deliverance' featured a banjo and guitar. Like, ya know?

Subject: RE: Accused Banjo Beater Allowed To Tour
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 07 Jan 10 - 01:58 PM

You can beat this.
It's an egg banjo

Subject: RE: Accused Banjo Beater Allowed To Tour
From: GUEST,999
Date: 07 Jan 10 - 03:52 PM

The guy's thinking, "I don't know what it is, but I'd like to be three hundred miles away when it hatches."

(That's from a Herman cartoon, but I couldn't find it on the web.)

Subject: RE: Accused Banjo Beater Allowed To Tour
From: Cool Beans
Date: 07 Jan 10 - 05:17 PM

Maybe the banjo beater had a breakdwon.

Subject: RE: Accused Banjo Beater Allowed To Tour
From: Artful Codger
Date: 07 Jan 10 - 05:31 PM

Why a banjo and guitar for "Dueling Banjos"? OSHA wouldn't allow them to have two banjos in the same studio.

Subject: RE: Accused Banjo Beater Allowed To Tour
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 07 Jan 10 - 06:39 PM

At a jam when my friend Lindsey the banjo player finds himself sitting next to another banjo player in the circle, and says "we should split up the banjoes."
"Wouldn't it be easier," says I, "to just take them out in the parking lot and run over them with a truck?"

Subject: RE: Accused Banjo Beater Allowed To Tour
From: Desert Dancer
Date: 15 Sep 10 - 08:24 PM

More banjo violence - but this is self-defense.

~ Becky in Tucson

Subject: RE: Accused Banjo Beater Allowed To Tour
From: Slag
Date: 16 Sep 10 - 02:06 AM

"Your Honor, my client pleads 'NOT GUILTY' by reason of insanity!"

"Uh, let's see...Oh this is the bango, er, banjo assualt case, right?"

"Well, yes, er no, it wasn't the case he assualted your Honor."

"What?"

"No your Honor, it was a banjo."

"Oh, I see, he assualted a banjo? That doesn't seem to serious."

"No your honor. My client is accused of using a banjo to assault another person."

"Oh? Who's banjo was it?"

"It belongs to my client, your Honor."

"Alright then: Not guilty by reason of insanity. Next case please."