Re: [Harp-L] Waves of something spewing

["Chris Michalek" <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I was making a joke,  the catholics and people who make of fun of catholics most likely got the joke in relating blindness to being a wanker.

Do I think he's a wanker in musical or harmonica terms? Absolutely not.


>-----Original Message-----
>From: Nate in the Blues Room [mailto:thebluesroom@xxxxxxxxx]
>Sent: Friday, December 15, 2006 03:27 PM
>To: 'Chris Michalek'
>Cc: harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: [Harp-L] Waves of something spewing
>
>Hi Chris,
>Our various cultural capital determine what a person is. Then we
>choose to express it.
>
>For me and where I'm from, NO, Sonny Terry is not - rather, he was a
>very expressive and humble player / person. For me to call him a
>**nker (from where I come from) is to be putting him down. The term is
>freely used in retaliation or to belittle someone. It serves to
>degrade someone if the user is trying to, can I say, 'air someones
>dirty laundry' in public. For me, the term is right up there with many
>other four letter words commonly used as swear/cuss words. "The phrase
>four-letter word refers to a set of English words written with four
>letters which are considered profane, including common popular or
>slang terms for excretory functions, sexual activity, and genitalia."
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four-letter_word
>
>I'd use four letter words such as fast and cool to describe Sonny
>Terry and O for Orsum - ahh, that last one you might not get, its a
>piece of in house humor amongst us Polynesians : ) We make fun of our
>spelling and pronunciation sometimes.
>
>All in all, I am totally enjoying the banter back and forth about
>Speed, Spewing and Soloing on the harmonica at present here.
>
>Thanks for asking, hope the waffle makes sense.
>
>Nate in New Zealand
>
>On 12/16/06, Chris Michalek <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> does that mean Sonny terry was a vvanker?
>>
>> >-----Original Message-----
>> >From: Nate in the Blues Room [mailto:thebluesroom@xxxxxxxxx]
>> >Sent: Friday, December 15, 2006 02:56 PM
>> >To: harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx
>> >Subject: Re: [Harp-L] Waves of something spewing
>> >
>> >Thank-you fjm,
>> >The word *ank is associated with *asturbation.
>> >I didn't like hearing it associated in reference to individuals
>> >harmonica playing preferences, heck the imagery it conjured up was bad
>> >enough.
>> >Nate in New Zealand
>