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Posted: Fri Jun 29, 2007 2:52 pm
by jingle_jangle
Ah, James Dickey meets Erskine Caldwell meets Bill Faulkner...and you read it all right here, folks!
'Scuse me. I gotta go chop some kudzu out back.
Posted: Fri Jun 29, 2007 3:29 pm
by elysrand
You laugh. I actually went to med school at Ole Miss, whose main location is Oxford MS, where William Faulkner (his name was really originally spelled Falkner in New Albany, y'know) lived and cultivated his bevy of Southern Belles.....
I did a year resident in Oxford, before transferring to the med school in Jackson MS for three hot sweaty humid years.
Posted: Fri Jun 29, 2007 6:55 pm
by jingle_jangle
Yep. Faulkner had the English chair there, I recall. They hold him in high sainthood (deservedly so...Hemingway could not touch the man IMO).
Other famous locals...Capote and Van Dyke Parks...Capote a Nawlins boy who moved to Alabama.
Posted: Fri Jun 29, 2007 7:17 pm
by lyle_from_minneapolis
Nice. Faulkner sings patiently, Hemingway jumps straight at you with a boxing glove, and Aitch shoots up in the Gunflint Trail!
Threads don't get any better than this, for me.
Posted: Mon Jul 02, 2007 5:17 pm
by johnallg
I take it this latest (off)shoot of the thread is covered under the "Knock-offs" subject heading?! Baby Face Bishop......
Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 8:23 am
by ajish4
Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 8:36 am
by sowhat
This beautiful guitar is brand-new and has never been played.
I wouldn't dare, either.
Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 9:56 am
by sharkboy
Man, one sneeze and it would be organs on a spike! And how many hands would Pete Townshend have left if he did his windmill trick with that?
I'm even a little concerned about Parkers (one inflicted a little bit of damage to me once)- this thing could really do some harm.
Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 10:22 am
by elysrand
This one doesn't deserve to even be politely labeled "junque"....
Also, how could one play a neck that is only 1.0 inches at the nut? That would take some pretty tiny fingers!
Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 12:47 pm
by sharkboy
"This Guitar is All Hand-Craft work and provides Highest Quality Song."
I think that about sums it up.
Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 12:56 pm
by johneek
Yeah...but its got a Froyd Lose bridge.....
Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 1:58 pm
by jps
I bet Gene Simmons would love it.
Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 2:24 pm
by lyle_from_minneapolis
So would a Tolkien dwarf.
Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 6:56 pm
by jingle_jangle
It is nearly the epitome of Hobbit guitars. If it was made out of a skunkwood burl, instead of being painted that hideous crackle scheme, it would be THE toppermost of the Hobbit Hoppermost.
Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 1:35 am
by ajish4
Yeah,
But WHAT a deal! For under two hundred dollars, you get the Swiss Army knife of guitars.....you get a boat anchor, a hatchet, a mountain climbers hook, and a testicle remover all in one guitar!