[Dixielandjazz] Jazz Definitions/categories; Infidels

[Dan Augustine]

(Considerably Off-Topic:)
 From _The Devil's Dictionary_ by Ambrose Bierce:

"INFIDEL, n.  In New York, one who does not believe in the Christian
religion; in Constantinople, one who does.  (See GIAOUR.)  A kind of
scoundrel imperfectly reverent of, and niggardly contributory to,
divines, ecclesiastics, popes, parsons, canons, monks, mollahs,
voodoos, presbyters, hierophants, prelates, obeah-men, abbes, nuns,
missionaries, exhorters, deacons, friars, hadjis, high-priests,
muezzins, brahmins, medicine-men, confessors, eminences, elders,
primates, prebendaries, pilgrims, prophets, imaums, beneficiaries,
clerks, vicars-choral, archbishops, bishops, abbots, priors,
preachers, padres, abbotesses, caloyers, palmers, curates, patriarchs,
bonezs, santons, beadsmen, canonesses, residentiaries, diocesans,
deans, subdeans, rural deans, abdals, charm-sellers, archdeacons,
hierarchs, class-leaders, incumbents, capitulars, sheiks, talapoins,
postulants, scribes, gooroos, precentors, beadles, fakeers, sextons,
reverences, revivalists, cenobites, perpetual curates, chaplains,
mudjoes, readers, novices, vicars, pastors, rabbis, ulemas, lamas,
sacristans, vergers, dervises, lectors, church wardens, cardinals,
prioresses, suffragans, acolytes, rectors, cures, sophis, mutifs and
pumpums."

"IMPIETY, n.  Your irreverence toward my deity."

     Dan
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>To: dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com
>Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2007 19:16:50 -0500
>From: tcashwigg at aol.com
>
>Ahhh but yes,,  History, we can all learn from it if we but read it a
>bit more :))
>Now the shoe has turned and the Arabs are calling the crusaders
>"Infidels"  !!!  hummm could it be they are reading history and we are not ?
>wonder what they think of SHEIK Littelfield's fake books :))
>
>Tom Wiggins
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><snip>
>Will the  TRAD definition change after the rest of us old folks die?
>Probably. After all, consider that "Infidel" was the term Crusaders
>used to define Arabs almost a thousand years ago. One never knows, do one?
>
>Cheers,
>Steve Barbone

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