So you are celebrating the chaff that causes you despair?

Sounds about right, MM - trying to anyway.

SS, Pip was asking you some questions.

Bullshit - he's been riding my fecking ass all day & doesn't he just know it? I expect he's having a good chuckle about right now at The Beech, Designated Folk Contexts and all. If I was feeling any better I'd be there laughing with him too. Hope it was a good one, Pip.

SS keeps using this word "shibboleth" and I realised that I didn't really know what it meant - so I googled it:

Read on, Shimrod! The word is also sometimes used in a broader sense to mean jargon, the proper use of which identifies speakers as members of a particular group or subculture. That is the sense I use it here. One of my musical projects is called Shibboleth; we've even got a myspace page: Shibboleth. Folk Music? Yes, I like to think so.