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txbasschik said:
The girls have given up on making me have girly nails and what-all. I *could*, without fakes, but I cut them off soon as they grow past my fingertips.

Also, when your honey asks you what kind of jewelry you'd like for Christmas, and you say, "I'd rather get a good set of strings, or a nice setup job from Bass Emporium", and your girlfriends think you have lost your mind.

Cherie ;) :bassist:
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Ditto! :D
 
#882
txbasschik said:
How do you know you are a girl bassist?

When all your girlfriends despair of the horrid state of your short, worn fingernails, and the callouses on your fingers that feel like they're made of rawhide. They try to buy you a gift certificate to the nail salon...

And you get a pedicure instead, so you won't ruin your hands.

The girls have given up on making me have girly nails and what-all. I *could*, without fakes, but I cut them off soon as they grow past my fingertips.

Also, when your honey asks you what kind of jewelry you'd like for Christmas, and you say, "I'd rather get a good set of strings, or a nice setup job from Bass Emporium", and your girlfriends think you have lost your mind.

Cherie ;) :bassist:
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You so nailed it, Cherie! My best friend from high school is a cosmetologist, and always looks askance at the state of my fingernails. I can't grow them past a certain point--it interferes with my playing!!!! :)
And oh yeah, give me toys for my "kids" over the fancy jewelry any day. Next on the wishlist--pickguard for my P-bass and a possible J-pup swap-out for my Jazz Special...:D
 
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txbasschik said:
...when your honey asks you what kind of jewelry you'd like for Christmas, and you say, "I'd rather get a good set of strings, or a nice setup job from Bass Emporium", and your girlfriends think you have lost your mind.
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What heaven it must be to have a bassist for a girlfriend! Imagine it, guys: actually being able to cope with birthdays and Christmas, free of the hideous agony of tramping round the shops, searching cluelessly for something you hope she might like. Ah well, the rest of us can but dream...
 
#889
Espidog said:
What heaven it must be to have a bassist for a girlfriend! Imagine it, guys: actually being able to cope with birthdays and Christmas, free of the hideous agony of tramping round the shops, searching cluelessly for something you hope she might like. Ah well, the rest of us can but dream...
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So why can't I find a guy then? I'm easy to please...a set of decent straplocks for each of my basses this X-mas would make me a happy camper...:hyper:
 
#891
AdlerAugen said:
Because you have serious GAS issues...and 30 dozen basses to buy straplocks for.
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I wish!!!!! :D Nope, just have 2 (technically 3, but one's living in England with a friend)...and if money suddenly weren't an object, would want...*ticks off on fingers* 3-4 more. And one of those wouldn't need straplocks--it would be an upright. :smug:

Nah, I have some ideas of why I can't get a guy...just haven't run into the right one yet. But somehow I figure music will guide me to where he's at, it's too much a part of my own life to compromise in that area. :bassist:
 
#893
...your cell phone has been on vibrate for the last year and you can't even remember what the ringer sounds like anymore. Mmmm....I don't know at which frequency it's vibrating, but it's just like being at home with the wife and rigs...
 
#894
You go to a party, come home drunk, and instead of going to bed start playing your bass. You then get on TB and make an ass of yourself waxing poetic about your brand new flats. I deleted those posts :rollno:
 
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lola99 said:
You go to a party, come home drunk, and instead of going to bed start playing your bass. You then get on TB and make an ass of yourself waxing poetic about your brand new flats. I deleted those posts :rollno:
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To quote an earlier anonymous (for their sake) poster:
"drunbk postig BAD"

Oh, and I checked it with my tuner, and my cell phone vibrates at a very flat Bb. Too bad it can't vibrate "The Chicken"....
 
#898
jsbass said:
I got one.

- Whenever you see a Wal-Mart, you think of Wal Basses!
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Yes... I think that every time I pass my Wal-Mart!!

--> When you have to screw in the lightbulbs at your house every month or so.

--> When you suddenly notice holes in the wall where plaster has popped out exposing nails and screws. :-DDD

--> When people look at you strangely because your a bass player and a chick... For some reason some people can't comprehend that!!

-K-
 
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