wld - very few people can, truthfully, claim to know intimately the work of EVERY performer, past and present.

It simply means that many of us lead an extremely busy but happy life, earning a crust from the day-job for a great part of it, and our recreation time is thus limited and there are therefore some performers whom we haven't come across during our 'off-duty' hours.

It doesn't make us numpties.

But the countess is an intelligent woman and knows that perfectly well, she just has a pathological hatred of Lincolnshire, and an overwhelming and unnatural desire to bait its inhabitants! LOL!

Strange, when you consider the great songs that came from the tradition in that neck of the (back)woods.