Hamboning

[Mullins, Bill]

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>Poster:       Wilson Gray <wilson.gray at RCN.COM>
>Subject:      Re: Hamboning (was: prissy, 1842 (?))
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>On one of the episodes, Busey hamboned. Unfortunately or, maybe,
>fortunately, only the hamboning caught my attention. It was the first
>time that I'd seen a non-black person do the hambone and the first time
>that I'd seen the hambone done by anyone on national TV since the
>"Hambone Kids," back in the very early '50's.

White guys hamboning was a regular thing on "Hee Haw".  I believe they
called it "eephing" (because one guy hamboned, the other one made nonsense
sounds that started eeph, aaph. . . .., or he would play the spoons).