Scott Matthews shared a photograph with me, and I'm sharing it with all of you, with his permission. His daughter Sasha handed him this note yesterday. Sasha is a pretty special girl, in no small part because she's already been on Boing Boing once before. What, indeed, does it really mean?

(thanks, Scott + Amy + Sasha)

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In the early days of Hip Hop, when an artist of interested played any particular venue, certain people of his “fandom” would show up ticket-less. They would gather at the front gate and en masse rush the doors just before show time. Some would get through, some not. This became known as “bum rushing the show”.
Navin_Johnson

“Night of the Living Baseheads” is also a useful tool to teach your kids the difference between dope and dope.

Here it is….BAM!
- LogrusZed
  
  That is indeed a dope jam.
  - Slant
    
    But let’s define this term called dope…and you think it means funky now? Nope!
- Sparg
  
  Also the proper use of bass and base.
Pedantic Douchebag

It does not mean, as my older brother once told me, that “you get a bunch of hobos to go to a concert with you”. My brother was lying to me.
- http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=4100631 Gwendolyn Snyder
  
  Some of our early open mic days at Occupy Philly were like that and it was awesome. No hobo.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_3NMEYTP637EWZ6MYFXUK2F6K5A Jon

In reference to Public Enemy’s “Yo! Bum Rush the Show”, this means: Honey this is when music changed in a profound way.
turnstyle

Mommy, What’s A Funkadelic?
- niktemadur
  
  Within Funkadelic but more awkwardly – Mommy, what does
  
  “If you will suck my soul,
  I will lick your funky emotions”
  
  mean?
politeruin

Oh mummy, what’s a sex pistol?
- Wild Rumpus
  
  In America, sex is a dirty, filthy thing done by animals, gays, and unmarried people, but pistols are a glorious thing that kill people for freedom.
Rev.Veggie.Spam

Sometimes when a man and woman love their community very much, they get together and they fight the power. They fight the powers that be…
- Wild Rumpus
  
  And now, in 2012, it is perfectly acceptable if a man and man or a woman and woman who love their community very much to get together and FIGHT THE POWER!
turnstyle

Santa was a hero to most, but he never meant …
- LogrusZed
  
  Also eff John Wayne.
http://imcravingpresidency.tumblr.com/ SedanChair

What is black steel, and when is the hour of chaos?
Antinous / Moderator

If she’s working on bum rush, does that mean that she’s already mastered dine and dash?
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1578235341 Christopher Scott

i wouldn’t mind a font of sasha’s handwriting.
- http://twitter.com/matthjones Matt Jones
  
  My handwriting is sub 7 year old scrawl. Hers is really nice.
  - Martijn
    
    Absolutely. Perfectly spelled and nice handwriting.
Noirling

Actually, as far as I understand, and I grew up a minority male, in the hood and I am now over 40, mind you; a bum rush is a pugilistic term. It’s when you and your partners jump somebody and beat they ass. In other words, “they bum rushed Ricky” means: “that collection of lowlives just jumped Ricky and beat him up.” So when Public Enemy, in particular, Flavor Flav, declares that they are going to bum rush the show, it means the crew is about to collectively jump the audience and beat it down … with rap.
Mantissa128

This was solved by the internets back in 2000.

“Geez Sasha, I’m your dad, not your Google slave.” “Well daddy, if you wouldn’t PASSWORD PROTECT THE COMPUTER I wouldn’t have to make your life a nightmare!”
- http://pulse.yahoo.com/_UWDFQHLRCTYZIOWFK3UZK223WI Rusty Shackleford
  
  That is a pretty good link, although it almost unforgivably cites Fresh Prince’s Wild Wild West instead of Kool Moe Dee’s. That writer needs to start reading those comics and get it right.
Frank Diekman

from out of the mouths of babes…
pjcamp

“The trail started in Montana with a bum with two names rushing away from his lady love.” — Philip Marlowe, 1949

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GcumRXvN0s
http://eitherorbored.wordpress.com/ Adam Cheshire

I love how she’s written it in pencil and then gone over it with pen. She’s obviously put a lot of thought and effort into this note.
http://twitter.com/Andr345r Andreas

aaaaah, good ol’ times…
https://twitter.com/misterjayem MrJM

“Sorry, honey. You gotta go for what you know.“
http://twitter.com/paulsbootique Pablito L’amore

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=bumrush
- smallteam
  
  Actually, try this: http://www.randomhouse.com/wotd/index.pperl?date=20000713

Deep question about Public Enemy, from 7-year-old girl

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