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RE: FINE TUNING A GUITAR
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BarkellWH
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RE: FINE TUNING A GUITAR (in reply to Richard Jernigan)
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a thinly veiled attempt to impress the unwashed masses. This phrase has been the linchpin running throughout this thread. In an attempt to trace it to its source, I have scoured old texts written in the ancient Assyrian and Babylonian cunieform wedge-shaped script. I think I have at last deciphered the provenance of the phrase. Apparently Salome, she of the Seven Veils, was dancing her Dance of the Seven Veils before a wealthy Babylonian merchant. After disposing of six of her veils, the merchant, eyeing her thinly veiled body lasciviously, attempted to impress his own unwashed mass upon her. Linguists have concluded that as this tale was deciphered and transmitted from Babylonian into Akkadian and, finally, Aramaic, the original was somehow interpreted as, "a thinly veiled attempt to impress the unwashed masses." Other sources link Salome with John the Baptist. Perhaps it is all myth. Cheers, Bill
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