How would you answer this comment?

Doug Beaumier · Post by **Doug Beaumier** » 31 Dec 2019 10:54 am

Thanks Jerry, yeah, I probably won’t reply to the guy.

Andy, I like the Sho-Bud! Nice touch.

Joe Elk · Post by **Joe Elk** » 31 Dec 2019 10:59 am

Humor is a nice way to begin the New Year.
Joe Elk Central Ohio

Fred Treece · Post by **Fred Treece** » 31 Dec 2019 12:09 pm

David Matzenik · Post by **David Matzenik** » 31 Dec 2019 1:29 pm

Its nice to see so many appreciative comments on that Youtube performance. They outweigh the stupid one many times over.

On the subject of the Internet's democratization of stupidity, we have to remember that it wasn't much better before the Internet, when whole nations could be fed the most heinous lies without contradiction.

Post by **Dave Mudgett** » 31 Dec 2019 6:38 pm

Yes, I suppose one can "play" it on an acoustic guitar with some substitute for a regular steel bar. But it wouldn't sound anything like what you got there, Doug. And I don't see the point of saying it unless it's to be a deliberately annoying smart-ass.

So I wouldn't reply either. It wouldn't do any good anyway - you can't fix stupid.

Earliest known reference to this that I know about is Steven Keats playing a gun runner in Bob Mitchum's movie "The Friends of Eddie Coyle", set in Boston 1973. Great quote, though.

https://youtu.be/nRPKY0feClY

Doug Beaumier · Post by **Doug Beaumier** » 31 Dec 2019 6:42 pm

- you can't fix stupid.

I like that, Dave! It's so true.

Mark McCornack · Post by **Mark McCornack** » 31 Dec 2019 8:40 pm

Doug, I’ve been enjoying your many YouTube offerings for a while now, and they’re always a true delight to me. A real inspiration!
I will say, if ANYONE could make delightful music with a guitar and a set of toenail clippers, it would probably be YOU.
I’d listen!
Happy 2020.

Doug Beaumier · Post by **Doug Beaumier** » 31 Dec 2019 8:45 pm

Thanks Mark! Happy New Year

Jack Hanson · Post by **Jack Hanson** » 1 Jan 2020 8:54 am

Perhaps the best response would be none. Why dignify such an ignorant comment with a serious answer?

But if I could play like you do, I would be tempted to pull out an old acoustic, raise the nut, string it up for C6, pull out my trusty nail clippers, set up my recording gear, and play an abbreviated version of Apache. Then I would post it with an effusive response thanking the rube for the suggestion.

Phillip Vaught · Post by **Phillip Vaught** » 1 Jan 2020 9:10 am

The comedic value of this forum is off the charts. But these days we can all use some of it..phil

Rick Barnhart · Post by **Rick Barnhart** » 1 Jan 2020 9:33 am

Just leave him hangin’ he’s trolling for a response. The truth is...he knows he can’t match your performance, so slamming yours is all he’s got.

Jim Newberry · Post by **Jim Newberry** » 1 Jan 2020 10:53 am

Thanks for the reminder. It's New Years Day, time for my annual toenail trimming! Now, where'd I leave my Sawzall.....

Mike Anderson · Post by **Mike Anderson** » 1 Jan 2020 12:23 pm

Fred Treece wrote:

This is the first I’ve ever seen that attributed to Michael Crichton (one of my heroes, Harvard medical school cum laude, postgrad at the Jonas Salk Institute for Biological Sciences before he became a writer). I’d always heard it was John Wayne!

Fred Treece · Post by **Fred Treece** » 1 Jan 2020 12:49 pm

You know...it’s just an internet meme, so credit for its origination is completely arbitrary and not vital to the purpose of its content.

Mike Anderson · Post by **Mike Anderson** » 1 Jan 2020 1:27 pm

Fred Treece wrote:You know...it’s just an internet meme, so credit for its origination is completely arbitrary and not vital to the purpose of its content.

Hear, hear, absolutely right. Not trying to correct anyone, believe me.

HowardR · Post by **HowardR** » 4 Jan 2020 10:40 pm

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And when your set is over, you can stick a broom up your ass and sweep the floor on your way out...….

Andy DePaule · Post by **Andy DePaule** » 27 Jan 2020 8:27 pm

HowardR wrote:

And when your set is over, you can stick a broom up your ass and sweep the floor on your way out...….[/quote]

That would be quite a show!

Doug Beaumier · Post by **Doug Beaumier** » 27 Jan 2020 8:30 pm

Andy DePaule · Post by **Andy DePaule** » 27 Jan 2020 8:32 pm

All I can add is that I have three of Doug's tab books. Have not used them as much as I should have!

But he forgot the mention in any of those very good tab books about the toe nail clipper alternative!

Like me, I think he also didn't consider the broom part of the gig.

BTW, Thanks Doug, They are good, but I find myself drifting into other tunes every time something in the books reminds me of another song a lick you tabbed would work in. Being dyslectic I have the same problem with reading too!

Doug Beaumier · Post by **Doug Beaumier** » 27 Jan 2020 8:47 pm

That’s okay, Andy. As long as you’re playing. Just keep pickin!

Garry Vanderlinde · Post by **Garry Vanderlinde** » 28 Jan 2020 9:05 pm

Mike Neer wrote:Only a toenail clipper.

Maybe a Tone-nail clipper

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Doug forgot?