Banjo versus TV: The Rules

The rules, shown as a Venn diagram, from a presentation I gave for Toastmasters.

I'm going to lay down some rules for Banjo versus TV.

What counts as banjo:

• Banjo practice.
• Banjo lessons.
• Going to a banjo concert.
• Banjo Open Mic Night and Windy City Jammers on Mondays at the Lincoln Restaurant in Chicago.
• Creating tabs.

What counts as banjo but not TV:

• Banjo-related instructional DVDs and shows.

What counts as TV:

• TV.
• TV shows or movies on the Internet, on DVD or on video.*
• TV shows on a plane.*

What counts as both banjo and TV:

• TV shows that are about the banjo. (I'm going to stretch this to include, for instance, the 7 episodes** of The Beverly Hillbillies that feature Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs.)
• Banjo-related TV shows or movies on the Internet, on DVD or on video.*

What count as neither banjo nor TV:

• Blogging about it.
• Instructional DVDs and such. (For example, I'm trying to learn American Sign Language and I have some ASL DVDs.)
• Listening to banjo music. Too easy. (No, not even the Sirius Bluegrass Gospel Train on Sirus Bluegrass, which I tape every Sunday Morning.)
• Movies on a plane.*
• Movies in the theater.*

* Added this clarification on Jan 9, 2007.

** Jed Throws a Wingding (6 February 1963), A Bride for Jed (18 March 1964), Flatt, Clampett, and Scruggs (31 March 1965), Flatt and Scruggs Return (16 March 1966), Foggy Mountain Soap (14 December 1966), Delovely and Scruggs (29 March 1967) and Bonnie, Flatt, and Scruggs (20 November 1968).