[Dixielandjazz] Re: Putting things away; curmudgeondom

[Dan Augustine]

>From: JimDBB@aol.com
>Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz]  Putting things away
>Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 11:11:37 EST
>
>By the way, what is the difference between a cynic and a curmudgeon.  Do you have Ambrose Bierce's dictionary?
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Jim and others--
    Bierce doesn't define 'curmudgeon', but to my mind, a curmudgeon is an apprentice cynic, or one who doesn't have the guts to be a cynic.  See: http://www.curmudgeon-online.com/ .  Jon Winokur has written a number of books on curmudgeonly quotations:

From: http://www.liberty-tree.org/ltn/port-curmudgeon.html
"THE PORTABLE CURMUDGEON
compiled and ed. by Jon Winokur

More than 1,000 outrageously irreverent quotations, anecdotes, and interviews on a vast array of subjects, from an illustrious list of world-class grouches. Here are all the classics, and new discoveries, arranged by subject , from Age to Youth, and curmudgeon, from Woody Allen to Alexander Woollcott.

"If you can't say anything good about someone, sit right here by me."
             -- Alice Roosevelt Longworth

"He marries best who puts it off until it is too late." -- H. L. Mencken

"Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don't need it; if you are sick, you shouldn't take it." -- Henry Ford

plus a wealth of W. C. Fields, George S. Kaufman, Groucho Marx, Dorothy Parker, more H. L. Mencken, Calvin Trillin, Mike Royko, George Bernard Shaw, Clare Booth Luce, George Orwell, Gloria Steinem, Ambrose Bierce, and many, many more."

    Who were curmudgeons/cynics in jazz?  Wild Bill?  Ernie Carson?

Dan
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