"That ain't no part of nothin' "

[OldSausage]

Ceci n'est pas une part o' nuthin'

[journeybear]

Mais non, monsieur, c'est pres mais pas de cigare: Ceci n'est pas un part de rien.

Calling all fans of PhotoShop and Magritte - have at it!

[AlanN]

This thread ANPON

[Spruce]

This thread ANPON

My next bluegrass band...
The Infamous Anpons...

Peter Rowan repeatedly told this story on stage as an introduction to "The Walls of Time". In the early '60s, when Pete was a B. G. Boy, they were approaching Bean Blossom. There was this big sign saying (something like): "Welcome to Bean Blossom Indiana, home of Bill Mambo and his Bluegrass Boys." Later on stage, Bill introduced Pete as "Pete Rowns" and asked what song Peter had picked out that day, whereupon Pete made up something and started singing (with mambo guitar rythm): "Bill Mambo attha bluegrass festival …" Bill: "Pete, what have you done, that ain't no part o' bluegrass music, that ain't no part o' nothin'! You better listen to this and don't you ever forget it." And they went straight into "The Walls of Time".
Funny story, I find. We should ask Pete, if there is any truth to it or if he just sets great store by Mark Twain.

Ya know, all those Bean Blossom shows are on multiple tapes, and are all out there...

I for one, would kill to hear Mr. Bill utter those infamous words...

[jaycat]

I'm not sure what all the fuss is about. I grew up in the South and have heard this expression many times in my younger days. It's not like Bill Monroe coined it.

[journeybear]

No kidding! The saying, the attribution, who said this about whom and why this particular time, this thread about that - all of that ain't no part of nothin'. But that ain't enough to keep this from being somethin' - even if it really ain't nothin', and no part of it, neither. Like I said - Dang persnickety mandolin pickers! Always pick-pick-pickin' apart thangs till there ain't no thang no more!

I think it's really pretty clear this saying will not survive strict grammatical scrutiny. However, as I think many if not most or even all those who have lived in the South will attest, using negatives in this fashion, even in multiples, is a regional idiomatic custom, used to place emphasis on the speaker's negative opinion regarding whatever matter is at hand. The more negatives included, the more emphasis being expressed. One could add "nohow," or "no way," or both, or more, to the end of the saying. But ain't necessary, nohow - Bill made his point mighty clear with three negatives.

[billkilpatrick]

quella non è una parte di niente ... que no es una parte de la nada ... Ist dies nicht ein Teil nichts ... że nie jest częścią nic nie jest ... and here it is hatian creole: ki pa yon pati nan pa gen anyen - how about croatian?

[multidon]

How about Atthay Yaintway Onay Artpay Yofway Othingnay?

[billkilpatrick]

"there's much in what you say that pleaseth me - speak on, man!"

[Hendrik Ahrend]

That should sum it up: "Das Nichts nichtet." (Heidegger) Too bad it wasn't ol' Bill, who said that. Now it's back to listening to (and playing) his music for me.

[billkilpatrick]

heidegger in the cafe - got to be a first - does henry get a prize or anything?

[Beanzy]

Non, Rien De Rien, Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien
Ni Le Bien Qu'on M'a Fait, Ni Le Mal

[catmandu2]

heidegger in the cafe - got to be a first - does henry get a prize or anything?

Well, my sig line DOES come from the forward to Heidegger's "Poetry, Language, Thought"

(just sayin)

[catmandu2]

But what the hey, I think I'll change it now to H proper-

[billkilpatrick]

sorry cat ... henry quoted him in doytitch - you just got to be impressed!

"non, je ne regrette rien" - edith piaf must have been a robot haiku

shouldn't have said that
would have done it different
photo-less wallet

[brunello97]

heidegger in the cafe - got to be a first - does henry get a prize or anything?

This got me thinking. Just did a search of sorts, Bill, and turned this up.

Never been much of a Bill Monroe fan but this album looks phenomenol(ogical.)

Mick

[billkilpatrick]

an existentialist! ... i knew it!!

[brunello97]

an existentialist! ... i knew it!!

I heard he did enjoy a morning cup of Kafka.

Mick

[billkilpatrick]

"being and time" - mamma-mia ... it was the '60's ...

[journeybear]

This got me thinking. Just did a search of sorts, Bill, and turned this up.

Never been much of a Bill Monroe fan but this album looks phenomenol(ogical.)

Uh huh. Did a search - where? Your PhotoShop files?



Nice job, though. And nice hat. Almost surreal, right there.

[billkilpatrick]

... the image of which brings us back nicely to the title of this thread ...

[catmandu2]

an existentialist! ... i knew it!!

No no...a nihlist

[journeybear]

Estragon: Well, shall we go?
Vladimir: Yes, let's go.

They do not move.

[Curtain, or fade to black]

[billkilpatrick]

times like these, i reach for my mandolin ...

[Hendrik Ahrend]

[QUOTE=billkilpatrick;1068104]sorry cat ... henry quoted him in doytitch - you just got to be impressed!

You crack me up, billkilpatrick! I fooled you, didn't I? German quotes are relatively easy for a German. And heck, I couldn't quote more Heidegger to save my life. (Si tacuisses, philosophus mansisses.)