Shoe by Gary Brookins and Susie MacNelly for February 10, 2020

Except for the tenor banjo, which only has 4. Whether that’s too many or not is a matter of taste.

Better not be going to California with a banjo on your knee. You will end up on the streets of San Francisco or Los Angeles.

What do you get when you throw a banjo off the Empire State Building? Applause.

What’s the difference between a banjo and an onion? No-one cries when you cut up a banjo.

https://youtu.be/q0Q4CBDFaEc

Old bluegrass musician’s joke: What’s the difference between a banjo and a chainsaw? (You can tune a chainsaw.)

What’s a example of perfect pitch?

When you throw a banjo into a dumpster and don’t hit the sides.

Speaking of stringed instruments for strumming: does anybody play the ukulele anymore?

The banjo is best accouplement for the bagpipes.

Anti-banjo humor is a whole new world to me.

Shoe, there are several gentlemen waiting for you in the alley. Bele Fleck, Steve Martin, Earl Scruggs, and Tony Trischka disagree with you about banjos…

My Dad loved to play his banjo, but to avoid disturbing anyone, he would take it into the bedroom and close the door. We could still hear him all over the house …and even outdoors. Then my sister would decide to practice scales on her oboe.

What’s the definition of perfect pitch? Throwing a banjo into a dumpster without hitting the sides.

I’m a-pickin’ and I’m a-grinnin’ …

Standard banjos can have between 4 and 8 strings.

Well, all I have to say is, most artists don’t know how to play an electric guitar.

And when you hear the banjo music, run! The hillbillies who think you have a “real purty mouf” aren’t too far behind…

My wife does.

Some of us like Blue Grass