[Ads-l] Facebook comment re guitar-playing
Wilson Gray
hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Tue Feb 16 01:13:12 UTC 2016
On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 11:43 AM, Cohen, Gerald Leonard <gcohen at mst.edu>
wrote:
> There's the expression "soft as butter."=20
> So "butter fingers" in the quote below probably means=20
> "soft, delicate fingers."
>
By God, I think you've got it! Thanks, G!
The fuller context is that a woman has designed and developed a new shape
of guitar gendered for the female figure and other women were commenting on
this new shape and on other matters having to do with the instrument.
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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain
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