Re: [Harp-L] "signifyin"

[Bradford Trainham <bradford.trainham@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

That's pretty good!!
How about...
"Yo mamma got lockjaw from (harp-content) playin'  second-hand
JamBones!!!!"
Brad Trainham
On Mon, 6 Aug 2007 11:42:18 -0700 (PDT), you wrote:

>. . . from A Myth Of Origins, by Henry Louis Gates Jr.
>
>"Black vernacular practice of signifacation,
>particularly oral practices involving double voiced
>trickery through indirection that can involve
>innuendo, needling, and ridiculing.
>Harp content- "Hey man, you call that a harp, I had
>one I found on the freeway got run over by a truck
>lookin better then that junker. And you think you're a
>bad boy harp player, my granny on a venalator could
>out draw you on her death bed. Hey, I was tootin a few
>tunes with your Momma the other day while you were at
>that harp lesson and she.....
>Reach 
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