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Thread #17555   Message #172367
Posted By: Clinton Hammond2
02-Feb-00 - 01:02 PM
Thread Name: Help: Good modern folkies
Subject: RE: Help: Good modern folkies
Peg... et al

Homophobic?? Me? Not at all... For all you know, I might very well be gay... I was mearly maiking a play on the sylables in his name... and calling someone something they call them selves is hardly an insult... At the risk of offending everyone here the word faggot and nigger are just words... I agree with Lenny Bruce that if we could all just say niggerniggerniggerniggerniggernigger until it didn't mean anything anymore, then Afro-decended children wouldn't come home crying because some racist called them a nigger... He was a briliant man, old Lenny...

Besides it's sexist to say that I can't call a homosexual faggot, when he calle's himself that, and other homosexuals use it all the time... you're saying then that it's o.k. for them but not for me... On the basis of sexual orientation... that's sex discrimination as near as I can tell...

But I suppose this is not the place for such debates... if you'd like to discuss it further, please feel free to send me a personal message and we can continue to exchange ideas...

As far as his playing goes... well... -I- think he sucks... Nat. Macmaster is abotu a million time better than he is... and Oliver Schroer is better than the both of them combined! Not htat fiddlers are a bidg deal for me... there seems to be this holy glow around fiddlers these days, especially traditional fiddlers.. and I gotta admit... after 3 or 4 tunes, jig, reels, whatever, they all start to sound the same to me... I listen to music for lyrics, stories... It just doens't blow my hair back...

So shall we agree to disagree and leave it at that? And because I started this, lemme get the next round k... maybe we can talk about the game instead... 'Cause we all know how 'safe' is can be talking sports teams eh!! LOL!!