In musical terms, it is an easy answer! New Orleans was a French-speaking colony. The word was transformed from "Gigue", meaning a
dance (specifically, a French 18th-century dance), but the meaning probably was morphed to mean a musical performance of any type.
Hence, "I have a gig, tonight" originally meant "I am playing for a dance, tonight" and later meant "I have a musical engagement,
tonight" (not necessarily a "dance", however)
Just in case you weren't feeling
The people who started college this fall
were born in 1991.
They are too young to remember
the space shuttle blowing up.
The CD was introduced two years
before they were born.
They have always had
an answering machine.
They have always had cable.
Jay Leno has always been
on the Tonight Show.
Popcorn has always
been microwaved.
They
don't know who Mork was
or where he was from.
They never heard: 'Where's the Beef?', 'I'd walk a mile for a Camel', or
'de plane,
Boss, de plane'.
They don't have a clue
how to use a typewriter.
....AND they never knew our world
without PLASTIC!
GOLFERS ONLY –
NO ONE ELSE WILL UNDERSTAND
Don't buy a putter until you've had
a chance to throw it.
When your shot has to carry over a water hazard, you can either hit
one more club or two more balls.
No matter how bad you are playing,
it is always possible to play worse.
Nonchalant putts count the
same as chalant putts
It's not a gimme if you're still away.
You can hit a two acre fairway 10% of the time and a two inch branch 90%
of the time.
Since bad shots come in groups of three, a fourth bad shot is
actually the beginning
of the next group of three.