That's nice, Brucie, but what would you suggest he should do? John is actually quite concerned, and he's looking for a solution. Until we come up with one, I've asked him to continue using the song titles in the thread titles.

I suppose I could give him a PermaThread where he can index the songs with their real titles, and then he can title objectionably-titled songs "Bawdy A, B, C, etc." That's a bit clumsy, though. I can't see putting euphemisms in thread titles - that's just too Victorian. Maybe the idea would be to assign a tag to bawdy song threads that would make those threads invisible to people who visited Mudcat without a cookie, or to Mudcatters with normal cookies. Registered people who have no objection to such threads could have their cookies set for full access, and the threads could also be indexed in a "Bawdy" PermaThread, so all could access them if they want to. That way, John could title the threads with the title of the songs, and we wouldn't have to resort to prudery. What do you think?
This is a matter of an ongoing, honest search for a solution. Please don't pin blame on John - he's a good guy, trying to do honest research into an aspect of folk music that has been suppressed in days gone by. Do we really want to continue to suppress it? Is that what a folk music forum is suppose to do - sanitize songs for consumption by polite society?

-Joe Offer-