In the interest of truth in advertising, I was just wondering if anyone has actually ever tried this? Playing butter, I mean.
"Plays Like Butter"
In the interest of truth in advertising, I was just wondering if anyone has actually ever tried this? Playing butter, I mean.
"The paths of experimentation twist and turn through mountains of miscalculations, and often lose themselves in error and darkness!"
--Leslie Daniel, "The Brain That Wouldn't Die."
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the stupidest phrase to ever insinuate itself into the speech patterns of a community.
But that's only this grump's opinion.
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That would be "playing with butter". The correct term is "plays like buddah"
Len B.
Clearwater, FL
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Proposed alternative: "Plays Like Oleo."Originally Posted by blueron
the stupidest phrase to ever insinuate itself into the speech patterns of a community.
But that's only this grump's opinion.
"The paths of experimentation twist and turn through mountains of miscalculations, and often lose themselves in error and darkness!"
--Leslie Daniel, "The Brain That Wouldn't Die."
Some tunes: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCa1..._as=subscriber
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It seems an apt enough metaphor to me. As long as you don't take it too literally I don't see a problem.
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I like "slicker than deer guts on a door knob". That's pretty slick!
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"Plays like butter" is a phrase that has no meaning. So you can't complain if someone advertises the instrument that way and it's difficult to play.
Personally, I find it akin to fingernails on a blackboard. I'm LESS likely to buy one with that description.
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A great image, wonderful phrase, one with actual meaning, unlike the vapid butter cliche. If someone told me he had a mandolin for sale that was slicker than deer guts on a door knob, I'd be really intrigued.
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There's another metaphor involving two eels which is, alas, unprintable here.
"The paths of experimentation twist and turn through mountains of miscalculations, and often lose themselves in error and darkness!"
--Leslie Daniel, "The Brain That Wouldn't Die."
Some tunes: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCa1..._as=subscriber
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This phrase actually gets beat up every few years here. Here's one.
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I play a mandolin that plays like butter and it kills banjos because it's a cannon. It's tone is dark and complex like hand ground Jamaican coffee. I make up for skill with metaphor and simile.
Jamie
There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second. Logan Pearsall Smith, 1865 - 1946
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By the way, this guitar plays like butter because... well, because it is butter!
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Mike, that wasn't from the Big E by any chance, was it? They do a killer butter sculpture every year.
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Mine plays so good, I can't believe it isn't butter...
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This sounds like a phrase Elvis Presley would have coined.
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I suppose without a good set-up it would play like cheese?
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If you whip it like a mule, shouldn't it play like whipped cream or other delights? I mean Bill didn't sing churn it like a mule did he?
Jamie
There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second. Logan Pearsall Smith, 1865 - 1946
+ Give Blood, Save a Life +
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OK, so .............................."if it doesn't play like butter then what does it play like?" Wow! a new Zen Koan! If you have the answer then you are truly an enlightened being.
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My mandolin plays like buddah, but I play it like peanut buddah -- so something gets lost in the sauce.
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The words of his mouth were smoother than butter....This is in Psalms in the Bible, so I guess it has been used as a metaphor for smooth at least that long.
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ima little confused, but that's all the time.
But i have played a mandolin with a butter pickguard.
"She was a thing of beauty but'her pickguard."
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Butter shut this down before it melts.
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I thought it was Plays Like Buddah
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Don't honestly know, just snagged it off the web.
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