Thanks for the cudos. T'was but a mere smidgin of a contribution compared to that Phoenix Rising From the Ashes of your'n.

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"Another day in paradise!"

haha... you know, I did think I was going to get away with brief but pithy comments on the only couple of recognisable threads I could see — it has been too long. I wasn't expecting to get called out on the chord voicing, but the one I was thinking of was the "big finish... or is it?" where it looks like you're playing a straight major chord and then sneakily drop the index finger back down a fret on the high E string for a plaintive Maj7, best delivered with a $@!& of the eyebrows while peering over the tops of your glasses.

I was thinking that every picture of me with a guitar I've seen seems to capture my most ham-fisted doing-something-down-at-the-nut moments, so it's nice to see Ceri displaying some mid-fretboard prowess. I still can't successfully play that particular voicing of his with a barre; I can only manage the jazz-style ready-for-a-walking-bassline-if-only-I-could-play-one version.

I've been absent (from most things, really) this year due to an unexpectedly far-reaching decision to become a secondary school teacher. It has been a good fifteen years since I was last at university; turns out it's all too easy to lapse into academic waffling, which makes the practical component a bit of a challenge. There's probably a student or two that I've managed to supply with a judicious kernel of knowledge, though, which is good enough for me. With a bit of luck my supervisors will feel the same way.

/edit... heh, I forgot about the forum bowdleriser... um, how about a "suggestive waggle of the eyebrows"

Huh? Best delivered with a what of the eyebrows?

Anyhow, yes, I remember that thread very clearly. Got any other "finishing on a question mark" chords? Howsabout a maj9? Ooo - jazzy!



Ha. So happens, the gentleman to the left in the photo at the top of the thread has a very similar story to tell. Forum user mclmk8d also made a career change to high school teacher not so very long ago:




Congrats on the first use of the word "bowdlerise" on the Forum this year. Previous winners of that competition include RussianRaceHorse, though I can't remember it taking this long into a year for the cup to be lifted. Your prize consists of this uncensored copy of Shakespeare's Insults, specially reformulated for teachers:



Enjoy - C

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wiki:The poet Algernon Charles Swinburne said, "More nauseous and foolish cant was never chattered than that which would deride the memory or depreciate the merits of Bowdler. No man ever did better service to Shakespeare than the man who made it possible to put him into the hands of intelligent and imaginative children

I don't know really, but, is there a copy of that, uncensored and reformulated for students?

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you can save the world with your guitar one love song at a time it's just better, more fun, easier with a fender solid body electric guitar or electric bass guitar.