His disciples may know all about bluegrass, but apparently they can't tell a screwdriver from a nut driver.
His disciples may know all about bluegrass, but apparently they can't tell a screwdriver from a nut driver.
It ain't gotta be perfect, as long as it's perfect enough!
I was thinking something along those lines myself.
aka: Spencer
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"You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage
to lose sight of the shore, ...and also a boat with no holes in it.” -anonymous
Whoever is buying this stuff might want WILLIE NELSON's Rolling Papers http://r.ebay.com/uM3nsy
because they must be smokin' da chronic.
I'm an old fool-skinner, down ol' Kentucky way- hay- hay
I can empty out my junk drawer, and sell it on E-Bay ay ay!
Yodel-ay-hee-hee
A' hee hee hee heeee!
It ain't gotta be perfect, as long as it's perfect enough!
So I guess this feller is going to sell every single piece of mundane everyday junk that Bill Monroe owned, one item at a time? This will provide years of entertainment.
It'll be difficult to restrain myself, but I'm going to hold out for his back brace to come up for auction.
Keep that skillet good and greasy all the time!
As long as his used T.P. (Not Tail Piece) doesn’t show up I’ll let people get as weird as they can get.
Timothy F. Lewis
"If brains was lard, that boy couldn't grease a very big skillet" J.D. Clampett
Dont forget the incomparable .....The ultimate and still weirdest Monroe related item ever..
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Edd-Mayfiel...vip=true&rt=nc
Unfortunately the photo is no longer available..
kicking myself for not screen-grabbing it..
the world is better off without bad ideas, good ideas are better off without the world
If you bought the toaster you could start selling Bill’s toast. Like a license to print money. My god how the money would roll in.
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Well, I heard that Bill could be a crusty old feller who didn't pay his musicians much bread.
The penknife he used to cut "The Gibson" out of his Loar's headstock -- now THAT might be worth bidding on.
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What a hilarious thread - had no idea there were so many poets here! Just wish we knew who all the suckers were. Ahem, I feel a verse coming on.....
I think that I shall never see
one thing that's lost to history.
The thing I miss, that is to say,
is "who bought what" on Old eBay!
bratsche
(an eBay user since long before it was a household word)
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300 for a toaster!? Do you think I was born yeasterday?
I'm the OP and you guys are famous now! Front page of Mandolin Cafe. Now the screwdriver . . .
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I'm waiting to bid on Bill's uncle's pen that he wrote the song about
It ain't gotta be perfect, as long as it's perfect enough!
Oh, it'll toast some Wonder bread,
but not an English muffin.
Because, as Monroe told us,
"That ain't no part of nuthin!"
Yes, I would bid on hat or boots,
but who could be a boaster,
if all they got from eBay
was William Monroe's toaster?!
Is it true Monroe ended up with the toaster 'cause his older siblings got all the larger appliances?
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Cry Cry Darlin'
I set my toaster to nine
Cry Cry Darlin'
NOw it's black and my toast ain't so fine...
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Pedalboard for ELS: Morley Cry baby Miniwah - Tuner - EHX Soul Food Overdrive - EHX Memory Toy analog Delay
Fender Blues Jr Tweed; Fender Greta;
This is starting to get a little crusty.
Timothy F. Lewis
"If brains was lard, that boy couldn't grease a very big skillet" J.D. Clampett
To the tune of John Hartford's "Theyre Gonna Tear Down The Grand Ole Opry":
They're gonna auction Bill MON-roe's toaster,
They gonna sell the machine that made Bill's white bread brown . . .
Summit Artist V mandolin #384 (2011)
R.L. Givens A5 mandolin #151 (1978)
Jerman electric mandolin 4 string
Pisgah custom banjo #888 (2017)
Martin 000-18 guitar #218946 (1967)
parlor guitar, ice cream cone heel, unlabeled
Sebastien Kloz fiddle (1734, authenticated)
More toaster doggerel:
Bill really liked "Ole Sourdough"
cuz his toaster left a smell,
but Tenbrooks was the name he chosed
and I guess that turned out well.
and:
Big Mon was known to innovate
but his toaster showed no mercy,
it rolled up all the crumbs in one
and popped out a fresh baked Virzi.
Well you know them discs was hard to sell
'cuz they was all so crummy,
so he added a little torch and wire
and now they're .....pretty yummy??
I asked Mr. Bill for the time of day
He said he'd throwed his watch away.
And his toaster, and his tools, and who knows what else
That'll turn up on Ebay
In the forum, online, where the sun always shines
And we snicker at those we don't know
Who buys this stuff? Who, who, who?
Who, who who who who?
It ain't gotta be perfect, as long as it's perfect enough!
There once was a man from Racine,
Whose possessions created a scene.
When they went on eBay,
Some were excited to pay,
While some others thought it obscene.
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