Robin: One of the reasons I didn't read your thread for a long time was that I didn't know what a "muso" was, let alone a recycled one. (No great loss; I have no ambition to play the accordion anyway, but my wife does play one, and I'm a bit interested in understanding what she's up to.)

Some people seem to think that a mysterious-sounding title attracts more attention, but for me, it's the exact opposite. If I can't tell exactly what a thread is about from the title, I'm very unlikely to open it. I don't have time to go searching for stuff that MIGHT be interesting. I have plenty of stuff to do that I already know IS interesting.

For instance, I've never opened the thread called "The Mother of all BS threads" and I probably never will. I have no idea what they discuss there, and I have no desire to find out. I figure if they had anything interesting to say, they'd put it in a thread with a better title.

I doubt that I'm missing anything, because, in all the searching I've done at Mudcat, I've never found the "Mother" thread in any of my search results.

I'm glad the "Mother" thread exists, though. I figure it's keeping some people occupied that would otherwise be cluttering up the good music threads with annoying BS.