But if it doesn't mesh well with the music currently getting played (at least by the majority of those in attendance - the guitar player's lengthy excursion into an 11-8 polyrhythm against 4-4 in Orange Blossom Special would certainly have worked in a jazz club: instead he chose to do it once in a honkytonk where all those on the dance floor were busy doing a two-step and the second time when we played at the center of Landover Mall outside of Washington DC, and we'd had expectations to 'keep it country.'), then you don't get 'fresh and new', you get "what the hell is that crap you're playing?!?!?" and rightly so.

Yes, I do in fact know what you mean. Your average open-mic night at anything other than a jazz club (as far as I know, the 'jam-band' club doesn't yet exist) isn't there for much of a sense of adventure.

But both of them would, as you no doubt know, would loudly and clearly give you a dressing-down for your linguistic style. Churchill, especially, loathed the polysyllable, save when one can't avoid them. And giving you a mention in the same sentence came about as a way of implying (too bad you couldn't make the inference) that you, sir, are no Twain or Churchill. Twain used the polysyllable freely, but generally he would put them in the mouths of those who either 'put on airs' or to show their users as those who knew of the words, but not their meanings.

I still have no idea why I keep playing with the trolls. At least Esker's fun.

-- Lane Gray And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed. Gen 2:25 remove the .lead from my address