| - Yeah, so what, the guitar was invented in like, the 1800?s? So, around the 1880- 1900?s these strolling minstrels got tired of strolling. They were like, ?Hey, I don?t have to stroll and play music. I can just stand here and not waste energy.? So, that?s what they did. And I read that people were a whole lot meaner in the old days. Yeah, and they didn?t like the non-strolling minstrels. Except, they didn?t call them that, they called them vagrants. So, you know how people, in today?s times, throw the money in the guitar cases. You know, as a nice gesture. Well, the people of the old days, the mean people, they had a different motive. The street people were doing their street/music thing, and the old days people would walk by. Except, they weren?t too fond of the whole street/music thing. They were more like, ?Hey you, bum, go get a job!? And I bet they would turn to their friends and be like, ?Hey Frank, you got anything I can throw at this joker?? and all Frank would have in his pocket would be some loose change. So the mean angry people of the old days would throw the money at the street people. But, money doesn?t hurt too much when it?s thrown at you. Maybe if it was thrown off the Empire State Building, but not from ten yards away. Then the money bounced into their guitar cases. Yep, that?s what I read in the Encyclopedia. |
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