YouTube: "How To _Hand-Bone_"

[Laurence Horn]

At 10:27 PM -0500 2/3/11, George Thompson wrote:
>Meanwhile, "hambone" in this sense is not in the OED.
>
>A number of years ago, I saw Willie Ruff (of the Ruff-Mitchell Duo)

and of Yale fame!

>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.
>

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