Asscuseame, Yahoo search you, what? Can't find it?
by Bryce Martin

Jassacksophone.
What is it? What does it mean?
What is intriguing is that you won't find the word or variations of it going through Yahoo search. That's highly unusual since almost any random selection of keys in that long box will produce a result.
Jassacksophone was a word coined by western sidekick actor Smiley Burnette. Coined is likely not correct here, since I am, I'm sure, one of probably less than a dozen people on this planet who knew this in the first place and among an even smaller group who would remember it at all. On screen, Burnette was sometimes in character as Frog Millhouse, a slightly bumfuzzled pal to Gene Autry, and he rode a jackass instead of a horse. (That's a totally different side issue since Burnette usually rode a screen-favorite white horse with a black circle around one eye.) When he was Frog Millhouse on the big screen Burnette had a jackass that liked to bray. Frog, a singer with a frog-like voice, was able to tug on an ear or tail to manipulate the braying sounds in such a way that he could get the animal to provide a sort of musical accompaniment to the squeeze-bulb horn and other noise making contraptions tied on the animal.
He called his braying musical beast a jassacksophone (think "bassackwards" for "ass backwards.")
I searched the word while on a nostalgia binge, seeking to tie the past to the current for some reason known only by certain cranial crevices. By adding it here, I hopefully have added it to the multitudinous list of searchables.

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