Chris Said: 
"You shouldn't be so hard on banjos Ed."

Chris- Being hard on Banjos is a deep tradition within the bluegrass community 
and specially among musicians. See for example the website Steve Kaufman set up 
for all things "Flatpickin on Guitar". (http://www.firebottle.com/flatpik/) On 
the left side is a set of links. I think it is the one next to the bottom. Yep. 
Banjo jokes. 

"What is the difference between a lawn mower and a banjo? You CAN tune a lawn 
mower!" 

"Why do some people hate banjo players right away. 
Saves time." 

"What do you say to a banjo player whose wearing a suit and tie? 
Will the defendant please rise."

Also note they are not PC (I know, the average banjo player is a male, tee, 
hee!). There are about 1000 of them, many attributed to professional bluegrass 
and country musicians. Of course, you are also correct that many of these are 
also used for bag-pipes, guitar, etc. :) All in good fun. Now - Back to the 
Beer lesson. Oh, yeah. This relates to psychology how? Maybe gentle forms of 
aggression through humour?
Tim
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-----Original Message-----
From: Christopher D. Green [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tue 2/13/2007 6:15 AM
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
Subject: [tips] Re: Ethnomusicologists against torture
 
Pollak, Edward wrote:

> I actually posted this [Society for Ethnomusicology statement againt 
> totture] to my bluegrass discussion group (BGRASS-L) a few days ago. I 
> included the quip that "there MUST be a banjo joke in there 
> somewhere!" There followed a reasonably long thread of alternately 
> amusing & edifying comments.

You shouldn't be so hard on banjos Ed. Consider acordians and bagpipes! :-)

Chris (who stopped toturing people with his trumpet decades ago)
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Department of Psychology
York University
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