Re: OT: piano (jara: Coming out)

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From: "Stone Gordonssen" <stonegordonssen@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Sunday, May 25, 2003 4:08 PM
Subject: Re: OT: piano (jara: Coming out)


> > > What's so  non-conservative about playing the piano?
>
> It wasn't so much that playing the piano was non-conservative nationwide,
> but iit was something that "real" men did not do - period.
>
> >piano = higher culture = upper-class = us!
> >but:
> >professional pianist = no real work = no money = them!
>
> Where I was reared,
> piano = higher culture = upper-class = them!
> and
> male pianist = fop = fag (i.e. homosexual male)
> female pianist = unmmarried female
>
> Other things "real" men didn't do where I was reared:
> 1. wear cologne
> 2. examine their nails by spreading the fingers and looking at the back of
> the hand
> 3. strike matches away from the body rather than towards
>
>
What's with No.3?  I would have thought that striking away from the body
would be just common sense...

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