[Dixielandjazz] "Struttin With Some Barbecue"

[Chuck Kercher]

Hey Y'all,

    Liz and I just got back from a trip to Michigan. I had requested an
unsubscribe before we left which was acted upon soon as we discovered when
we checked our ail mail in Mich. Also I had requested a subscription using
this new address as it is easy to use "Plain Text." ( I have no idea what
our previous messages looked like to those that complained about the HTML)
It must have been pretty scary.
    Anyway upon opening the new Outlook mail I found over 400 DHML messages.
I read the ones that I knew would be interesting. ( Hooks, Beebe,Barbone,
and a couple of others) One of the threads that I followed a bit was the
"Beebe Folly" business. It occurred to me that the nameless one was a bit
"Overserved" to quote the Hooks Man, and really was out to say "Oh didn't he
Ramble." I recently bought a CD with the title "Saturday Night Function" and
heard both Hooks and Beebe rambling.
    I probably won't submit much to the list but really enjoy being able to
read all of your ramblings. Chuck Kercher
----- Original Message -----
From: "Charlie Hooks" <charliehooks@earthlink.net>
To: "DJML Dixieland Jazz" <dixielandjazz@ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Sunday, July 28, 2002 6:26 PM
Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] "Struttin With Some Barbecue"


> on 7/28/02 4:50 PM, Stephen Barbone at barbonestreet@earthlink.net wrote:
>
> > "butter and egg man" (a dairy farmer or bumpkin who fancies himself as
> > an urban high roller)
>
> ...except that this makes no sense at all!  "She wants a dairy farmer who
> fancies himself as an urban high roller..."?  "Don't some dairy farmer or
> bumpkin want her?"
>
>     Have heard some silly stuff here and there in my life, but nothing to
> beat this!
>
>     No, a "big butter and egg man" in this song and among these words
> clearly means some guy who can bring home the bread, the bacon--and the
> butter and eggs--but with overtones of: also a good man to make the butter
> come and fertilize the eggs.  Farmer?  Bumpkin?  Forget it!
>
>     If the Random House Dictionary of American Slang says things as
idiotic
> as this, I'm glad to know I needn't buy it.
>
> Charlie
>
>
>
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