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Thread #25336   Message #296630
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
13-Sep-00 - 04:37 PM
Thread Name: What can't be talked about here?
Subject: RE: What can't be talked about here?
Don't go believing the urban legends about earwigs. Othwerwise you'll never be able to camp at folk festivals, because anytime you wrap up your tent you find the litle buggers trying to hitch rides with you, and they must have been there all night...

And anytime you unroll your tent there are a few who've made it through. They move around the country following the festivals. There's probably a new species of folkie earwigs being evolved.

And the poet laureate of the folk scene (in England) Les Barker has of course immortalised the famous Earwig O. ("Earwig O, Earwig O ,Earwig O, Earwig O, Earwig O ,Earwig O-O").

As has been pointed out, you can talk about anything here and someone is sooner or later is going to tell you it's not relevant or out of place. But what matters is an underlying attitude of tolerance of diversity, and avoided being nasty to other people. Don't foul the watering hole.