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Your editor has been a musician for many decades. He started the first band his Quaker school ever had and played drums with bands up until 1980 when he switched to stride piano. He had his own band until the mid-1990s and has played with the New Sunshine Jazz Band, Hill City Jazz Band, Not So Modern Jazz Band and the Phoenix Jazz Band.
Here are a few tracks:
SAM SMITH'S DECOLAND BAND
PHOENIX JAZZ BAND
APEX BLUES 
Sam
playing with the Phoenix Jazz Band at the Central Ohio Jazz festival
in 1990. Joining the band is George James on sax. James, then
84, had been a member of the Louis Armstrong and Fats Waller
orchestras and hadappeared on some 60 records. More
notes on James
WISER MAN Sam
piano & vocal
OH MAMA Sam piano & vocal
According to a Marist poll, whether you are black, white, over or under 45, male or female, earning more or less than $50,000, the phrase "whatever" is more annoying than "anyway," "you know," or "at the end of the day." Those who found it least annoying - only slightly worse than "you know" - were those living in the Northeast. While latinos found it most annoying, almost twice as bad as "you know."
3 Comments:
whatever...
How about 'It is what it is'?
I recently heard someone use that phrase three times in a span of a few minutes of conversation. He was talking about economic trends, then said, 'It is what it is'. Then, a minute or so further into the conversation, he said, 'Again, it is what it is.' Finally, another couple of sentences later, he said, 'Again, as I mentioned before, it is what it is.'
To the moon! One of these days... to the moon!
I guess people find it annoying because "whatever" has more power than any of those other phrases; it's seriously dismissive, especially with the correct whatever-tone. I recently retired from teaching so I heard "whatever" often, though rarely directed at me so I maybe am a bit too generous, but I secretly admired so much rebellion so efficiently packaged. Now don't get me started on "no problem."
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