RE: [Harp-L] Gus changes his name

"Bradford Trainham" <bradford.trainham@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> · Sat, 29 Dec 2007 11:17:38 -0600

Or...
For the variously theological...
Loozerus!!!  (Looz as a verb or short form.)
And, if the same Loozerus comes back to a subsequent gig... We have The
resurrection of Loozerus!!!!
But somehow, I think the majority will want to keep Gus Gus...
So, would a well-dressed (gussied-up) Gus be a...
Gustav???
Brad Trainham

-----Original Message-----
From: harp-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:harp-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Mojo Red
Sent: Friday, December 28, 2007 7:55 PM
To: Winslow Yerxa; harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Harp-L] Gus changes his name

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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