Do you chew your picks too?

[alantig]

So...do mints make good picks?

The US Mint does. Did you not see @11top’s thread?

 

[ScottR]

No way! I'm always too busy chewing boogers to stop and put a pick in my mouth!

Congrats you just succeded in making me spew Dr. Pepper out of my nose...and yes it burns...it really burns!

 

[Deleted member 5962]

My boogers are sacred. I refuse to share/lend/loan them to anyone! Picks, on the other hand.....I'll give them away

Yeah, but Hans has introduced some compelling new information about pick swapping. You might want to read up on that.

 

[Deleted member 5962]

The US Mint does. Did you not see @11top’s thread?

Yes, but we can't all get our picks from 11tops daughter. Can we???

 

[alantig]

Congrats you just succeded in making me spew Dr. Pepper out of my nose...and yes it burns...it really burns!

No it doesn’t. Deep Purple is the “Burn” band. The Dr. Pepper guy sang “Makin’ It”.

 

[Deleted member 5962]

So...do mints make good picks?

From my experience, my main preference Altoids SUCKS as a guitar pick. Shaped wrong and pieces of it everywhere.

Mento's not so bad if you don't need a point.

 

[ScottR]

No it doesn’t. Deep Purple is the “Burn” band. The Dr. Pepper guy sang “Makin’ It”.

I stand corrected..

 

[Deleted member 5962]

I'm guessing I'm not alone. Do you chew on your picks too? Ever hear of someone choking to death on a guitar pick?

If 37 years in this forum has taught me anything, it's that our moms are generally right about what we should and what she should not put in our mouths. However, there are always exceptions to the rule. We drank from the house outside ALL the time growing up. I not only didn't die from it, I didn't even get sick.

Mom never told me not to chew on picks, but maybe only because I never chewed on one so she felt no need for corrective action. She did tell me to stop chewing on my fingernails though. I used to get flavored toothpicks though, and chew on those. Never choked on one. With all due respect, I think this might have been one of those times that mom's take a little creative license with their stories in order to make them fit their narrative. Like mom used to tell me not to throw my sweaty socks on the carpet after basketball practice or it would mildew the carpet. I hid one under my brothers bed one time for a month. You know what? NO MILDEW! Boy it sure did smell bad though. But you know how it goes. I didn't tell her she was wrong... And I didn't tell my brother why his bed stank. That boy kept sniffing his mattress and blankets for weeks trying to figure out where the smell was coming from.

 

[Lister]

I've never chewed them, but I do put them in my mouth to hold. I usually keep one in my pocket too, well I did before Covid anyway, and yes they get washed and dried when I forgot to take them out.

 

[Alnus Rubra]

I don’t chew them, but I store it in the corner of my mouth if I switch to fingerstyle mid song.

Veinhamster??!

And I have somehow been sucked into the tortex .....

Fixed

 

[ScottR]

No it doesn’t. Deep Purple is the “Burn” band. The Dr. Pepper guy sang “Makin’ It”.

"Mr. Dr. Pepper" David Naughton....feast your ears on this disco gem...if Serg was hangin I'm sure he would appreciate it. I certainly do. I dare you to sit still thru the whole song. He is solid gold after all!

 

[Davey]

Guilty, I've never chewed them, but always seem to put the pick in my mouth if I switch to fingers or I set the guitar down.

Super easy to find again when I needed it and it was better than trying fish one of them suckers out of that tiny change pocket in a set of levi's.

 

[AaeCee]

OY...I saw it first hand...Middle school...Franklin, in Reisterstown...YEARS ago.

Holy crap, we were rivals. I went to Pikesville.

 

[alantig]

"Mr. Dr. Pepper" Danny Naughton....feast your ears on this disco gem...if Serg was hangin I'm sure he would appreciate it. I certainly do. I dare you to sit still thru the whole song. He is solid gold after all!

David Naughton - just saw him in a Seinfeld ep tonight. And I like the song - from my youth. I catch it on XM every now and then.

 

[Deleted member 5962]

David Naughton - just saw him in a Seinfeld ep tonight. And I like the song - from my youth. I catch it on XM every now and then.

The song just reminds me of... “Virgins to the left. Non-virgins to the right. You guys split em up however you want.”

 

[dmatthews]

I'm having a hard time picking which pick thread to pick on.
I ended up picking this one.

 

[WA Paul]

I pick after I chew

 

[GADonis]

Nah. I was just having a laugh with DTR.




Now this is where the habit gets gross. NEVER loan me a pick. It will almost certainly end-up in my mouth when I stop thinking about it.

And that is one of the driving forces behind me breaking the habit of putting picks in my mouth. I remember one time at Guitar Center (or was it band camp?) I was trying out something and started to put one of their "loaner" picks in my mouth. I caught myself before it reached my lips but just the thought of where that pick may have been or where the fingers that had touched that pick may have been...

 

[11top]

This thread proves we are bored at home.

 

[Tosca]

Congrats you just succeded in making me spew Dr. Pepper out of my nose...and yes it burns...it really burns!

No it doesn’t. Deep Purple is the “Burn” band. The Dr. Pepper guy sang “Makin’ It”.

I thought Scott was referring to this...not the Deep Purple version.....

But then again...Linda Blair did date Glen Hughes...among several other musicians. One might say she had her PICK of the best musicians at the time.