My Ferret Has Ticks

Last night, we went to see the Ukelele Gala at St. Paul’s Fitzgerald Theater. I will write up a full-fledged review of it soon. For now, one of last night’s running gags reminded me of a little quip one of the Canote Brothers (Jere or Greg) made at the 2004 American Banjo Camp.

He was showing the audience how he had tuned his banjo-ukelele. (Seeing as the audience was composed largely of Oldtime banjo players, he wouldn’t dare stick to a standard tuning.) He slowly plucked the strings, one after the other so we could hear the tuning, and said, “So instead of My Dog Has Fleas, he’s got some other kind of bug.”