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Thread #95859   Message #1868572
Posted By: Scoville
25-Oct-06 - 04:32 PM
Thread Name: UK folkies not welcome by US authorities?
Subject: RE: UK folkies not welcome in US?
Squeezeboxhp--please don't confuse us with our government. You know, the one that most of us didn't even elect in the first place way back in 2000.

Keep in mind, too, that most of the guys approving these things don't know squat about the music. (Yes, this is an overly simplistic example, but eh) If they see "fiddler", they're going to think, "Well, shit--we have enough of those of our own," unless, as was stated above, said fiddler provides loads of documentation about what makes him/her special.

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I sort of wish people would lay off the deliberately provocative titles. I know it starts me out on a sour note even if the content of the thread doesn't follow the implied line. We complain a lot that there's so much eyeball-gouging around here but then we keep starting threads with titles like that with the intention of poking each other with figurative sticks.