Re: [Harp-L] Gus changes his name

[Mojo Red <harplicks@xxxxxxxxx>]

Poor Gus... 

Okay, I'm reaching... but here are a off-the-wall ideas:
 
Huffy the Gig-Slayer
His Flatulentcy
Oaf-Blower
Cocky the Blowhard... (As a verb... "he cocked my gig")
Big-Head Clod
Discourteous Windbag
Hubris-Man
Harp Hog
Hutzpah the Shmendrik 

Let's have fun with this! There's power in the act of naming. :-)

Harpin' in Colorado,
--Ken M. 










----- Original Message ----
From: Winslow Yerxa <winslowyerxa@xxxxxxxxx>
To: harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2007 4:24:31 PM
Subject: [Harp-L] Gus changes his name

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




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