Look what I got for Christmas! 
Yep, it’s Deering banjo! What a gift! I’ve been pickin’ and grinnin’ ever since I opened up the big box from California . Thanks a ton, Jerry. We’ll be pickin’! If we don’t get together before then, Karen and I will go to visit Kathlene and Jerry and Jerry’s guitar in October. That should give Jerry enough time to get his Valencia neighborhood rezoned to allow bluegrass and banjos. | February Bluegrass TRIVIA
Foggy Mountain Breakdown DID YOU KNOW … ?
Banjo icon Earl Scuggs wrote “Foggy Mountain Breakdown” in 1949.
Flatt & Scruggs played the song for years, but it never became a hit until Earl played it in the soundtrack of “Bonny and Clyde (1967, Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway). It was used in the chase scenes, and now is one of the Top Ten Car Songs (http://www.hollywood-diecast.com/top_10_car_tunes.htm) Yes, the Batman theme is No. 1.
SEE EARL SCRUGGS AND STEVE MARTIN PLAY “FOGGY MOUNTAIN BREAKDOWN.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icMTVV5Lwaw Scruggs won a Grammy in 2002 (best country instrumental) for a 2001 remake of “Foggy Mountain Breakdown.” (Steve Martin also played banjo on the recording, and Paul Shaffer was on piano). |
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(BLUEGRASS SOUNDOFF) 
 Howdy Mike,
We have lots of bluegrass here in Kentucky . Why do some people make fun of bluegrass and insult the intellect of Southerners? I will have you know I like bluegrass and I am an engineer. Please let your readers know how hard it is to become an engineer.
-Miffed in Kentucky
Hi Miffed,
You are right – it’s downright hard to become an engineer in Kentucky . Go ahead, see for yourself. Try to take the test below. We found it on the Internet. | .
KENTUCKY PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERING EXAM
1. Calculate the smallest limb diameter on a persimmon tree that will support a 10-pound possum.
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2. Which of these cars will rust out the quickest when placed on blocks in your front yard? A '65 Ford Fairlane, a '69 Chevrolet, a '67 Chevelle, or a '64 Pontiac GTO.
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3. If your uncle builds a still that operates at a capacity of 20 gallons of shine produced per hour, how many car radiators are required to condense the product?
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4. A woodcutter has a chainsaw that operates at 2700 RPM. The density of the pine trees in the plot to be harvested is 470 per acre. The plot is 2.3 acres in size. The average tree diameter is 14 inches. How many Budweisers will be drunk before the trees are cut down?
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5. If every old refrigerator in the state vented a charge of R-12 simultaneously, what would be the percentage decrease in the ozone layer?
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6. A front porch is constructed of 2x8 pine on 24-inch centers with a field rock foundation. The span is 8 feet and the porch length is 16 feet. The porch floor is 1-inch rough sawn pine. When the porch collapses, how many hound dogs will be killed?
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7. A man owns a Tennessee house and 3.7 acres of land in a hollow with an average slope of 15%. The man has five children. Can each of his grown children put a mobile home on the man's land and still have enough property for their electric appliances to sit out front?
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8. A 2-ton truck is overloaded and proceeding 900 yards down a steep slope on a secondary road at 45 MPH. The brakes fail. Given average traffic conditions on secondary roads, what is the probability that it will strike a vehicle with a muffler?
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9. A coal mine operates in a NFPA Class 1, Division 2 Hazardous Area. The mine employs 120 miners per shift. A gas warning is issued at the beginning of the 3rd shift. How many cartons of unfiltered Camels will be smoked during the shift?
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10. At a reduction in the gene pool variability rate of 7.5% per generation, how long will it take a town that has been bypassed by the Interstate to breed a country-western singer? |
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