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    ...if you play a guitar with the strap on your right shoulder.
    ...if you imagine what your computer monitor would look like with triple binding and inlay ("The Dell")
    ...if you're a Democrat, but you love listening to Bush.



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    If you browse the Women with Mandolins thread to look at the instruments.
    Ha, ha! keep time: how sour sweet music is,
    When time is broke and no proportion kept!
    --William Shakespeare

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    If you know that "high and lonesome" means more than being a drunken loser on a Saturday night.
    Ha, ha! keep time: how sour sweet music is,
    When time is broke and no proportion kept!
    --William Shakespeare

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    If you've ever been hacking around on a friend's guitar and thought to yourself "Geez, it feels like I've got an aircraft carrier in my arms!"

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    If you've been bragging about having two G-strings!

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    If you ever seriously considered naming your daughter Amanda Lynn.
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    If "Thile" and "Smile" don't rhyme...
    Ha, ha! keep time: how sour sweet music is,
    When time is broke and no proportion kept!
    --William Shakespeare

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    Uh, smile is pronounced SMEE-lee, correct?
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    If you have a good CD or Tape playing and you never hear a word your Wife is saying when a good Mandolin break comes on!And you just shake your head yes!
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    If your wife threatens to throw you and your instruments out the door if you buy one more.
    Glenn Nelson
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    "Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes and play your mandolin."

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    ... you're the only one in the band without back problems.

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    If your in a crowd of people, listening to music, and you are the only one clapping to the off beat, you might be a mandolin picker.
    I can't clap on 1 and 3 without falling down. It's kind of sad really...

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    If G string buzz means something totally different to you and your wife, you might be a mandolin picker.
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    If the best you can do is try - through smooth tremolo technique - to imitate the sound of a dying cat (fiddle).

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    If all your haiku
    Are inspired by mandolins --
    Possible picker
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    ..when people ask you about your "little guitar."
    Glenn Nelson
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    "Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes and play your mandolin."

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    if you are reading this board during the 4th quarter of a tie game on Monday Night Football.
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    .... or your still at work wishing you were playing mandolin...
    "Can I have a little more talent in the monitors please?"

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    You know the difference between Loar and lore...
    You say you love to play fiddle tunes but don't play fiddle...
    You secure more than your boots with boot laces...
    You have gorilla snot on your Dawg Pick...
    You've given your instrument a Florida-ectomy...
    When you talk about Big Mon he's not a Jamaican...
    Your instrument is less than 3 feet long and yet you justify the need for a travel model...


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    You might be a . . .

    if you work up a sweat taking your break.

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    If you start a renovation/remodeling company just so you can look for "Lost Loars"...
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    if you think size doesn't matter.
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    If you're already a half hour late for work this morning!
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    If you've long since given up, and now just sigh and say "yeah, it's a ukulele..."
    Ha, ha! keep time: how sour sweet music is,
    When time is broke and no proportion kept!
    --William Shakespeare

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    ... if you know the meaning of "unison" but have never actually experienced it.

    ... if you realize it only takes longer to tune a mandolin just so the banjo player can feel superior about something.

    ... if you heard this one - Two people walking down the street. One was a mandolin player. The other didn't have any money either.

    ... if you know your playing is better than it sounds.

    ... if you know your mando is more valuable than it looks.




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    -if when your friends ask you what Rhonda Vincent had on at the show, you say "a Smith Creek"
    -if when looking at antique furniture, you wonder what kind of tonewood it would make

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