sonoman,
I want to be like you when I grow up. I'm 58; is it too late for me? Rock on.

Ooh, ouch! Feel like I've been zapped by an... alien. Oh, now you have me mentioning it. Sorry for picking on you. We's jus' havin' a little fun.

Randy, I'm pushing 61 with a short stick, so you don't have long to wait. As far as zappa, frank or otherwise, I have nothing but kind intent when it comes to this forum. It's a kind of home for the hopelessly GAS inflicted, a rubber room of sorts where we can bounce off the walls with no self inflicted wounds. I mean no one here any disrespect, and if I've ever, in any way, expressly or by implication, claim I know more about guitars than the next schmoe, I hereby utterly disclaim it. I'm an old guitar play, and I've owned more than any sane man (that leaves me out automatically) could justify. And no Alien prodding, please. It's not my fault. I didn't even want the guitar. It's like a friendly brazilian german poltergeist. Fun is good. I will be winging my way, with my family, to Jackson Hole in two days. You'll have a full ten days to see if I'm indeed the one pissing in the lemonade. Skoal!

The issues addressed here aside, I just want to say that if Sonoman plays guitar with anything like as distinctive a voice as that with which he writes, he must make one helluva sound. The man's got a phraseology with more turns than the neck on a Russian guitar.

I see a project for you, man: The Sonoman Phrasebook - the perfect product for the impulse-buying section by the cash register at all high-end guitar stores, alongside the novelty straps and psychedelic celluloid picks.

Well, I've published two books of poetry, and have had a play produced, and am shopping my first novel. I never thought I had 530 pages in me. I'm a thirty or forty line guy, and have been for almost fifty years. Oh, and I have well over a hundred songs copyrighted. Has this led to fame and fortune? Uh, no. I don't have an enterpreneureal bone in my head. No agression. But, thanks about the word thing. My guitar playing is about as eclectic, but I'd have to say I'm more writer than red hot guitarist. But I'm the lead guitar player in two bands at the age of sixty, so the whole thing's worked out far better than I deserve. May you all prosper as we take our annual sojourn to Jackson Hole, our former home, and our spiritual center. Ten days with no phone, no tee vee, no computer (except a laptop to write on). Suits us fine. Fare thee well.

I second, what hawgadi said...to the T.

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over on the mandolin cafe there is no posting. just the listing and a "reply to" button. it sends an e-mail off to the seller. the owner of the board monitors the replies for scammers and shenanigans.

personally, i feel that if you've no interest in the item, you should not deter someone else's sale unless there is something illegal of wrong about the item. (say perhaps it is stolen or damaged,etc)

Can anyone site an example of a post on a WTB/WTS thread that resulted in an instrument not being sold? Obviously, every post is a bump to the top so that is a plus. Aren't we being a bit too sensitive? If it isn't illegal, rude, hurtful, etc., where's the harm?

There is none. There are sufficient real slights in this world without spending our spare time inflating imagined insults. As my kids say, chill.

Thank you!I had begun to develop a fourmaphobia.

Horrors! That approaches quadrophenia. From behind. Personally, I think when it comes to guitars we're almost all buypolar. Sorry. It's genetic.