Folks is folks and folks is Folks. I think that if general conversation had been kept in a back room I would have felt less comfortable joining in with either the music or the B.S. threads. I've only been here a month so I can remember what it was like to first start posting. Some people prefer starting conversations with business and then getting sociable-like whereas others prefer an off topic introduction before they're comfortable talking business. Discovering what the difference in the threads is isn't rocket science so I figure if people can turn their computer on and then get to the Mudcat they've got the will to sort that out and decide what they want and what they don't want to read.

Peter T. I don't think I have seen any use of 'peaked' instead of 'piqued', then again there's a lot of places I haven't peeked at. Of course I live in Ontario so maybe the use of peaking hasn't piqued here yet.