RE: [Harp-L] Gus changes his name

[<aolmos@xxxxxxx>]

I don`t have a suggestion for a new name, but I agree 100% with the name change!

Agustin "Gus" Olmos
Gainesville, Florida

> Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 15:24:31 -0800 (PST)
> From: Winslow Yerxa <winslowyerxa@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [Harp-L] Gus changes his name
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> Longtimers at harp-l will remember discussions of that annoying harp player who shows up and plays at everyone else's gig whether he's asked to or not. Play onstage or in the audience, he doesn't care. Nor does he pay much attention to when the song begins or ends or what key it's in. 
> 
> If that loudmouthed cartoon rooster Foghorn P. Leghorn had a harmonica, he'd act a lot like this character. We all recognize this character and have experienced his annoying
> behavior (maybe even in the first person, much as we hate to admit it).
> 
> List members gave him a name: Gus. "To guss" became a verb for awhile, and there was even a Gus B. Goode who occasionally posted his latest exploits to the list.
> 
> But not everyone was comfortable calling him Gus. After all, what if a real harmonica is named Gus and doesn't behave like that?
> 
> So I'm asking the list what other name we might give this guy. Something descriptive, brief, and hopefully comic, but not a name that a real person might have (and not something that's a registered trademark).
> 
> Winslow