You know, this is just the usual Mudcat crap. Now the bandwagon is filling up with members crawling out of the woodwork, who can't wait to get their lashes in on me, because catspaw tooted his horn.

Apparently, it's a slow day for fart jokes.

It IS American folklore, people, regardless of what you think of me, or whether you have heard of it or not.

If it is mentioned in the Chicago Sun Times, Poynter Online, and there are articles on sale at CafePress.com, all about wearing/not wearing orange on St. Patrick's Day, I don't really give two hoots what the rest of you have/haven't heard of when it comes to this subject.

Why should I, or anyone else for that matter, believe any of you more than me?

Oh, because catspaw said so?

Sure. And he, after all, is a real authority on Irish American folklore, right?