Well let me start, my dear friend kAT, by saying that I don't think I was flying off at something you said, and if it seemed that way I apologize; I hold you in high esteem and am certain you are the last person I would direct that stream of pedantic noise at.

Come to think of it I do not remember what set me off. :>)

But it wasn't you, so pax tecum sweet gal.

James I agree with what I think you are saying, in that anyone who uses songs of a chauvinistic or sadistic nature to communicat efor him is revealing his own nature. And really both the songs you mention are trivial sort of doggerel in my mind, not worth wasting gas on.

Pardon me for waxing unduly rhetorical. That said, I still believe in the merits of a song's nature deriving from its own time in history. I don't think old ballads should be censored by the standards of political correctitutde, and I don't beleive ethat you or kAT do either.

So I don't know who I was yellin at except top hear myself yell. :>

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