we need to change the definition of a gentleman

[djg]

[joe2758]

Awesome! I can't say I understand the title of the thread though.

[djg]

Awesome! I can't say I understand the title of the thread though.

a gentleman is someone who knows how to play the banjo and doesnt.

[bako]

didn't use the drone string once.

[garybaldy]

[sgosnell]

My recollection of the definition of a gentleman involved an accordion...

[va3ux]

a gentleman is someone who knows how to play the banjo and doesnt.

I don't understand the title or the explanation of the title.

[Bobby Timmons]

No such thing as a gentleman anymore.

[ragman1]

I don't understand the title or the explanation of the title.

It's an old joke:

What's the definition of a gentleman?
Someone who plays the banjo... but doesn't.

Someone already posted it here but I already knew it. I've got a kid's joke book with it in somewhere, except in this one it's the bagpipes.

The point is instruments like the banjo and bagpipes can get on peoples' nerves so a decent fellow wouldn't inflict the noise on anyone. But, as this is a jazz forum, and Giant Steps is supposed to be the 'great challenge', anyone who can do it, even on a banjo, must be an all-right chap. Hence reconsidering the joke definition of a gentleman.

(The one above that one is quite funny too. And the one above that)

[va3ux]

Ah. Now I get it. I hadn't heard that before. Thanks for enlightening me.