"preconceived ideas"? Here on Mudcat? Never!

Look, Shimrod, matey, me old mucker, the fact is that a timeless melody (for example) is far more specific to a folk song than, say, a tail is to a cat. Not many of the songs in today's top 40 have tunes you could hum back to yourself; whereas the vast majority of animals have tails.

"...he eventually got fired - I wonder why?"

Taken in context, this looks a little like a veiled threat. Who do you know then? Have the assembled forces of the F*** Police been dispatched to my door??

(tut, tut; that's just typical of the way these nefarious types use nefarious means to bring about their nefarious objectives. Infamy!)