The Steel Guitar Forum

If you put nothing up on the bulletin board
you are a poster

If you hang somebody up on a bulletin board
they are a postie

And if they don't try to get down..
they are likely post toasty!

David,

Reminds me of this line from that infamous song...

Kris Kristofferson wrote:Reckon they'd just nail him up if He come down again.

The concept of negative numbers did not exist prior to the invention of the checkbook...

Fill in the blanks, as in "Don't Forget the Lyrics!" on TV:

Beatles: Let me take you down, because I'm going to Strawberry Fields, nothing __ ____

Dylan: When you ain't got nothin', ___ ___ _______ __ _____

Joplin: Freedom's just another word for nothin' ____ __ ____

Preston: Nothing from nothing ______ _______

Haggard: It ain't nothin' _ ______ ___ __ ____ ____ ___

Dire Straits: Money for nothin' ______ ___ ____

Peter Paul and Mary: Too much of nothing ____ ____ _ ___ ____ _ ____

Johnny Cash: I love the girl wearing nothing ___ _ _____ ___ _ _____ __ ___ _______ __ ___ _________ __ ___ ___ ___ _______

Steve Atwood wrote:Fill in the blanks

No, I think it's best we leave those blanks as they are. *Blank* is a little more what we are looking for here.

Big Mama Thornton and Elvis: You ain't nuthin' ___ _ _____ ___

Only because this has nothing to do with anything!

That's nothing!

Why is it that:

Veronica looks like Bettie Page,
and Bettie looks like Veronica Lake?

'Cause innocent kids reading Archie comics ain't 'sposed to know nuthin' about Betty Page and Veronica Lake.

David Doggett wrote:Big Mama Thornton and Elvis: You ain't nuthin' ___ _ _____ ___

I took that personal, David. Did I do something wrong?

Shef,

If you ask me, the guy in the front looks vaguely familiar..

No, Steve, I meant nothing by it. I was just adding to your nothing list.

But I took this one personal:

Steve Atwood wrote:Dylan: When you ain't got nothin', ___ ___ _______ __ _____

Quote from Wikipedia about Mel Blanc:

At 16, he changed the spelling of his last name from “Blank,” reportedly because a teacher told him that he would amount to nothing and be, like his last name, “blank.”

Richard Sevigny wrote:Shef,

If you ask me, the guy in the front looks vaguely familiar..

Clarence LeBlanc played guitar like it was nothing.

Does this mean he steeled his brain????

Nothing I can add.

...then don't say nothing

(hats off to Shef)

I'm a little cornfused, so should i say something then?

Not here. You'd be off topic.

Lady and gentlemen,
This thread has given me an idea for my new book.
Working title:

First draft:

It's coming along pretty well.