YouTube: "How To _Hand-Bone_"

[George Thompson]

Meanwhile, "hambone" in this sense is not in the OED.

A number of years ago, I saw Willie Ruff (of the Ruff-Mitchell Duo) give an astonishing demonstration of hamboning.  (Since it was the first and only time I have ever seen hamboning, perhaps it was an mediocre demonstration, but I was impressed.)

GAT

George A. Thompson
Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern Univ. Pr., 1998, but nothing much lately.

----- Original Message -----
From: Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM>
Date: Thursday, February 3, 2011 8:13 pm
Subject: YouTube: "How To _Hand-Bone_"
To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU

> The video is of a guy doing the _hambone_.
>
> Comments include arguments over whether it's "hamboning" or
> "hand(-)boning." Reminds me of the childhood friend who *insisted*
> that the pants were _Eugenes_ and not _blue jeans_.
>
> What're ya gonna do?
>
> --
> -Wilson
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