[Tango-L] That awfully insulting metaphor

[Jake Spatz]

Astrid wrote:
> Ok, now. To make all this a little more interesting, I suggest, we change the metaphor [...] how about calling them a "coffin" instead. A coffin and it's carrier
>   
This /is/ more interesting. I know a guy who says dancing with some 
women is like pushing furniture around... that's quite close, I think, 
to the situation of a coffin with only one pallbearer. Provided, of 
course, that the guy is already dressed in black.

In any case, it's been my experience that musical instruments 
essentially play themselves. The musician is just there to help it 
happen and (except in the case of a piano) to bow with it. (Yet notice 
how so many pianists touch the piano as they bow... it ain't so they 
keep their balance, you know.)

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As follow-up to a long-forgotten other comment (of mine): I have never 
in my life as a native speaker of English heard the term 'chick' as a 
pejorative. It's a jive word for a cool or cute girl.

Just FYI, my fellow fans of Lunfardo song.

Jake